Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone. — Alister E. McGrath 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 don’t believe in guilty pleasures. If you f---ing like something, like it.” — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The best thing is to possess pleasures without being their slave; not to be devoid of pleasures.” — Aristippus Copy Share Image
The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word… Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's so — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated pleasures in defecation. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“That’s how he knew he wasn’t dead. The pleasures might all be gone, but the pain was exquisite.” — Shawn Speakman Copy Share Image
When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
One of the great pleasures of having children is spending one-on-one time with them. Sadly, I could do that for only a… — Howie Mandel Copy Share Image
That's why you can't be a true Yankee without winter: because all the best pleasures are earned - the fire, the fried… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
We no longer sing and dance. We don't know how to. Instead, we watch other people sing and dance on the television… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
As to the lawful pleasures of the mind, the heart, or the senses, indulge in them with gratitude and moderation, drawing up… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
I wanted to move away from Holland for my work because I felt that things would be better for me in England.… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
One of my greatest pleasures in motor racing is qualifying. You have loads of freedom from pushing a lap the whole way.… — Bruno Senna Copy Share Image
“I thought that a fairer era of life was beginning for me, one that was to have its flowers and pleasures, as… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Virtue is the music of the soul, the harmony of the passions; it is the order, the symmetry, the interior beauty of… — Mary Collyer Copy Share Image
“The barrels were on a platform and to keep the platform level someone had shoved a quarter-inch tape box underneath it. I… — Peter Hook Copy Share Image
“As summer neared, as the evening lengthened there came to the wakeful, the hopeful, walking the beach, stirring the pool, imaginations of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Consider the capacity of the human body for pleasure. Sometimes, it is pleasant to eat, to drink, to see, to touch, to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Life’s simplest pleasures are life’s greatest joys. Most people don’t discover what’s most important in life until they are too old to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Pleasures, being as necessary for the existence and well being of the body as food, are equally required. They are, moreover, the… — M. Vatsyayana Copy Share Image
“Why do you weep, child? We of the Floating World live only for the moment, giving all our time to the pleasures… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
“A transient wish crossed his mind; that he could have stayed around and introduced her to the innocent pleasures of... But the… — Laura Kinsale Copy Share Image
The joyous fulfillment of your sex : the sacred duties of beloved wife, and helpmeet, and mother. In opposition to the vulgar… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
