“Life brings simple pleasures to us every day. It is up to us to make them wonderful memories.” — Cathy Allen Copy Share Image
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit; but are mere clouds in the enjoyment. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Samsaric pleasures are like salt water, the more we indulge, the more we crave. — Geshe Sonam Copy Share Image
All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price. — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“Small pleasures. Don't ever dismiss them, Ellen thinks. Tastes, smells, the feel of things, the sounds of birds, music. And talk. Small… — Kathleen George Copy Share Image
One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Normally, I just sit in my quiet little room and do the small things that bring me pleasures. I read my books,… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle. — Luc de Clapiers 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
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
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
I am not so much inclined to wonder that marriage is sometimes unhappy, as that it appears so little loaded with calamity;… — Samuel Johnson 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
As human beings we have the capacity to enjoy limitless, blissful happiness...there is nothing wrong with having pleasures and enjoyments. What is… — Thubten Yeshe Copy Share Image
Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
“What is not possible is to combine the pursuit of pleasure and the enjoyment of comfort with the characteristic pleasures of a… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do have some guilty pleasures. I'm very keen on mayonnaise, so that's a shame, as I'm always battling with my weight.… — Rick Stein Copy Share Image
The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not… — Madame de Lambert Copy Share Image
“Before you came to live with us, our lives were as always, and we were happy. We worked, we ate, and then… — Robert Murphy Copy Share Image
None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his… — James Goldsmith 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
“At the point where he, today's Ivan Ilyich, began to emerge, all the pleasures that had seemed so real melted away now… — Leo Tolstoy 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
“How little is requisite to supply the necessities of nature? And in a view to pleasure, what comparison between the unbought satisfaction… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“I call it Joy. 'Animal-Land' was not imaginative. But certain other experiences were... The first is itself the memory of a memory.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
