Quotes About Desire

Passions are less mischievous than boredom, for passions tend to diminish and boredom increase.

Bargain: something you can't use at a price you can't resist.

An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife.

People will buy anything that's one to a customer.

Abstainer: a weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

To enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought, has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Whenas in silks my Julia goes, Then, then, methinks, how sweetly flows The liquefaction of her clothes!

We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. But the tremendous effort needed- one doesn't always want to make it-does one? ... But what else can be done? What's the alternative? What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.

When you are in love with someone you want to be near him all the time, except when you are out buying things and charging them to him.

In the race for love, I was scratched.

The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.

Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart.

One man; two loves. No good ever comes of that.

It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.

Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat.

None are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.

You cannot have your cake and eat it.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

They talk of my drinking but never my thirst.

I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it.

Drink not the third glass - which thou can'st not tame when once it is within thee.

When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"

For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.