All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
Francois Fenelon
Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.
Judith Viorst
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
John Keats
I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
Walt Whitman
I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
Candice Bergen
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
Khalil Gibran
Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents.
Adele
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Once upon a time the world was sweeter than we knew. Everything was ours; how happy we were then, but then once upon a time never comes again.
Johnny Mercer
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
John Dryden
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
Amos Bronson Alcott
The hotter the battle the sweeter the victory.
Bob Marley
The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
Pope Paul VI
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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