Our days weave together the simple pleasures of daily life, which we should never take for granted, and the higher pleasures of Art and Thought which we may now taste as we please, with none to forbid or criticise.
It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.
In friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures.
Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.
False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.
To find agreements in one's minority opinions is one of the great pleasures of reading.
If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights?
And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.
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 same way as you, or the sense of security that you get when you see that your defenders and goalkeeper are more or less where they should be, all that is left is naked fear.
All pleasures contain an element of sadness.
The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit.
A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures.
Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
We could take all the pleasures that have ever been and will ever be in all the universes and add them up into one experience. If you were absorbed in nirvana, it wouldn't be noticed.
Devotion to the facts will always give the pleasures of recognition; adherence to the rules of design, the pleasures of order and certainty.
For at the end of the day, prosperity goes beyond material pleasures.
A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing.
Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures.
No pleasure is evil in itself; but the means by which certain pleasures are gained bring pains many times greater than the pleasures.
After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.