Like cats and ice cream, showers were among life's simple, uncomplicated pleasures.
The heart is refined, spiritual, and heavenly by nature - guard it; do not overburden it, do not make it earthly, be temperate to the utmost in food and drink, and in general in bodily pleasures. The heart is the temple of God. 'If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy' (I Cor. 3:17).
Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?
Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come.
God made not pleasures for the rich alone.
Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.
It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones--I've discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now. Not to be for ever regretting the past, or anticipating the future; but to get the most that you can out of this very instant.
Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.
Food is the supremest of pleasures.
Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.
Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.
At a certain fork in the road of automatization, Europeans chose to have more time, and they work far less than we do and get much longer vacations. We chose to have more stuff, the stuff sold to us through those beckoning adjectives-bigger, better, faster: Jet Skis, extra cars, second homes, motor homes, towering slab TVs, if not the time to enjoy them or to enjoy less commodified pleasures.
As we advance in life the circle of our pains enlarges, while that of our pleasures contracts.
The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
No pleasure is evil in itself; but the means by which certain pleasures are gained bring pains many times greater than the pleasures.
Why did becoming accustomed to something have to render its pleasures stale.
And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.
Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal.