Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
I do have a thing for eating out; that's one of life's great middle-age pleasures.
People argue themselves out of their pleasures
The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
As to the lawful pleasures of the mind, the heart, or the senses, indulge in them with gratitude and moderation, drawing up sometimes in order to punish yourself, without waiting to be forced to do so by necessity.
When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.
Throwing yourself into a job you enjoy is one of the life's greatest pleasures!
I am a man without many pleasures in life, a man whose few pleasures are small, but a man whose small pleasures are very important to him. One of them is eating. One reading. Another reading while eating.
The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.
It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other.
We are all environmentalists now, but we are not all planetists. An environmentalist realizes that nature has its pleasures and deserves respect. A planetist puts the earth ahead of the earthlings.
Few people want the pleasures they are free to take.
He who takes his fill of every pleasure. . . becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike. . . becomes insensible.
It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me. . . if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me.
The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
Cooking and baking are pleasures and I want everyone to be able to experience and share them.
I don't think we should just 'muddle through' and ignore the question of life's meaning. Or better, perhaps, I don't think it is a question that can be ignored once the business of asking about the worth and significance of what one is doing - one's work, one's pleasures, one's ambitions and so on - has got going. You can't at any point stop the urge to ask Tolstoy's questions, '. . . and then what?', 'What's the point of that?'.
One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.