“for what is life, a good life, but the accumulation of small pleasures?” — J. Maarten Troost Copy Share Image
Never shall my sad eyes again behold Those pleasures which my thoughts did then unfold. — Emilia Lanier Copy Share Image
Where penury is felt the thought is chain'd, And sweet colloquial pleasures are but few. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“I’ve come to realize the pleasures of being a nothing-to-lose, take-no-shit older woman; of looking at what once seemed to be outer… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“The joy that is of God is not opposed to earthly pleasures. Rather it infuses them with a foundation of meaning.” — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those not exclusively dependent… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Depending on where you live, cooking, sex and pooping are either 3 of life's pleasures or what kills you — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Yes, expertise puts on in position to have further, cognitive pleasures, but these pleasures are distinct from the sensory pleasure of tasting… — Kent Bach Copy Share Image
My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love. — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
In life, you have to keep certain parts of yourself in check because you want to be a decent human being. But… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
Surrounded as we are by the wants and woes of our fellow-men, and yet given to follow our own pleasures, regardless of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
My position is such that there is no necessity for me to enter into competition with struggling humanity. As to expensive and… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones--I've discovered the… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
People only have guilty pleasures when they crowbar pleasure down their throat all the time and then they reach for the brownies.… — Hal Sparks Copy Share Image
[Pleasure is what suggested] which behaviors, emotions, social patterns and patterns of taste served us well during our evolutionary history. They were… — Lionel Tiger Copy Share Image
How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
“The pleasures of my life here are simple – simple, inexpensive and democratic. A warm hill of Marmande tomatoes on a roadside… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
The pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature. The reasons for such addiction are so… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“Winter was come indeed bringing with it those pleasures of which the summer dreamer knows nothing—the delight when the fine and glittering… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But how true it is that every pleasure has also its reverse side, in brief, its pain. Or, if not wholly true,… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Innocent pleasures in moderation can provide relaxation for the body and mind and can foster family and other relationships. But pleasure, per… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
You increase your self-respect when you feel you've done everything you ought to have done, and if there is nothing else to… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
“Yet scientists have found that the more we experience any pleasure, the more we become numb to its effects and take its… — Dalai Lama XIV, Desmond Tutu, Douglas Abrams Copy Share Image
It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“You owe it to your loved ones as well as yourself to know and pursue your pleasures.” — Mireille Guiliano Copy Share Image
There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
I do have a thing for eating out; that's one of life's great middle-age pleasures. — Rick Astley Copy Share Image
Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone. — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
“Don't feel guilty about the pleasures you take in the things you enjoy.” — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
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