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Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures. — Michael Broadbent
Some of my greatest pleasures have come from finding ways to overcome obstacles. — John Wooden
The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with… — George Santayana
All the great pleasures of life are silent. — Georges Clemenceau
Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England… — William Cowper
Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps. — Amos Bronson Alcott
My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural… — Epicurus
God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man,… — Francis Bacon
The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder. — Jane Austen
Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd that feels the… — Nick Hornby
These flowers are like the pleasures of the world. — William Shakespeare
To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid. — Robert Breault
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we… — Charles Caleb Colton
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones. — Seneca the Younger
I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures. — Michel de Montaigne
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures. — Samuel Johnson
Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure. — Oliver Goldsmith
Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for… — Douglas William Jerrold
God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain. — C.S. Lewis
Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend… — John Selden
The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself… — Susan Sontag
Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for… — Miguel de Cervantes
Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains?… — Agnes Repplier
Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows,… — Hippocrates
High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own… — Samuel Johnson

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