I have barbecues, swim in the pool with my babies. I'm a man of simple pleasures. — Anthony Anderson Copy Share Image
There are few pleasures like really burrowing one's nose into sweet peas. — Angela Thirkell Copy Share Image
As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it. — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
One of the great pleasures of working in Middle Earth is you get to be another being. — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
But nothing satisfied the fool But my dear Mary Moore, None other knows what pleasures man At table or in bed. What… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
“Life is full of simple pleasures; if one does not know how to enjoy them, one would easily miss out on it.” — Felisa Tan Copy Share Image
One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Pleasures. I had to cut them back so I can write. And it's worked! It so has. But I am the most… — Tanya Saracho Copy Share Image
I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all… — Al Capone Copy Share Image
“Curiosity is the most fleeting of pleasures; the moment is satisfied, it ceases to exist and it always proves very, very expensive.” — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that… — John Green Copy Share Image
For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“You really have spent too long amongst dead things and sand. People misbehave, Ben. People do … wicked things, in the name… — Jae T. Jaggart Copy Share Image
To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“What if pleasure and displeasure were so tied together that whoever wanted to have as much as possible of one must also… — Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It's folly that women measure their happiness with the pleasures of the bed, but they do. And when the pleasure cools or… — Euripides Copy Share Image
Subtly, in the little ways, joy has been leaking out of our lives. The small pleasures of the ordinary day seem almost… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
There is not a little generalship and stratagem required in the managing and marshalling of our pleasures, so that each shall not… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“When, therefore, we maintain that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasures of profligates and those that consist in… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
“The characteristic of Pains and Pleasures is that they are unmistakably real, and therefore, as far as they go, give the man… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The stars have not dealt me the worst they could do: My pleasures are plenty, my troubles are two. But oh, my… — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image
“As the long limousine purred to life Edwina felt as if she were Elizabeth, setting sail to battle the Spanish Armada. She… — Barbara Taylor Bradford Copy Share Image
“...there are pleasures to be had from books beyond being lightly entertained. There is the pleasure of being challenged; the pleasure of… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
“This lively health, when entirely free from all mixture of pain, of itself gives an inward pleasure, independent of all external objects… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
“I was surrounded by friends, my work was immense, and pleasures were abundant. Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly,… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
