Like cats and ice cream, showers were among life's simple, uncomplicated pleasures.
It may be that true happiness lies in the conviction that one has irremediably lost happiness. Then we can begin to move through life without hope or fear, capable of finally enjoying all the small pleasures, which are the most lasting.
Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures.
I do have a thing for eating out; that's one of life's great middle-age pleasures.
Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.
If you can't see the sun you will be impressed with a street light. If you've never felt thunder and lightning you'll be impressed with fireworks. And if you turn your back on the greatness and majesty of God you'll fall in love with a world of shadows and short-lived pleasures.
But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower
For the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know.
I have no guilt about any of my pleasures.
I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pleasures I know.
Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.
Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple who is fully awakened delights only in the destruction of all desires.
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.
The key is realizing - and believing - that this world is not your home. If you and I ever hope to free our lives from worldly desires, worldly thinking, worldly pleasures, worldly dreams, worldly ideals, worldly values, worldly ambitions, and worldly acclaim, then we must focus our lives on another world.
It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.
Great pleasures are much less frequent than great pains.
To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. Teach him something of natural history, and you place in his hands a catalogue of those which are worth turning around. Surely our innocent pleasures are not so abundant in this life, that we can afford to despise this or any other source of them.
We should lay in a store of food, but never of pleasures; these should be gathered day by day.
Conning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.