“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
I do have a thing for eating out; that's one of life's great middle-age pleasures. — Rick Astley Copy Share Image
“Don't feel guilty about the pleasures you take in the things you enjoy.” — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
“There are few pleasures which loosen the tongue as much as that of sharing wine, glass in hand.” — Emile Peynaud Copy Share Image
We can finish a house, but never a home. Once you fall in love with a house, you find continual pleasures in… — Alexandra Stoddard Copy Share Image
“Some of life's best pleasures are simplest ones. Enrich your life with more of them and your heart will be happy.” — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
I don't feel guilty at all if I'm just lying around, one of my best guilty pleasures is doing absolutely nothing. — Leighton Meester Copy Share Image
Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain. — Plato Copy Share Image
In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature. — Sei Shonagon Copy Share Image
“If you find physical pleasure in earthly experiences, use the occasion to praise God for these gifts. Turn your love not on… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Indeed, one of the highest pleasures is to be more or less unconscious of one’s own existence, to be absorbed in interesting… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“Well, yes, yes, to be enslaved to you is a pleasure. There is, there is pleasure in the ultimate degree of humiliation… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other… — Mark Twain 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
Desire , to know why, and how, CURIOSITY; such as is in no living creature but Man ; so that Man is… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Happiness. We're tearing our hair out to try to find a definition of it, for heaven's sake. Is it joy? People will… — François Lelord Copy Share Image
In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Fulfilled desires, like pleasures (even of the intrinsic kind), are states of achievement rather than default states. For instance, one has to… — David Benatar Copy Share Image
“Nature offers us a thousand simple pleasers- Plays of light and color, fragrance in the air, the sun's warmth on skin and… — Lorraine Anderson Copy Share Image
“would sometimes say, that if life were made what it might be, by good government and good education, it would be worth… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“To others, the universe seems decent because decent people have gelded eyes. That is why they fear lewdness. They are never frightened… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
![“Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the Enemy’s (God’s) ground…He [God] made the pleasure: all our research so far has not enabled us to produce one. All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/183/anonymous-1_degrees_never-forget-that-when-we-are-dealing-wi_2516823.jpg)
