Sometimes the small pleasures in life are the sweetest.
— Karen Marie Moning
Where joy grows deep, sorrow must deepen; the greater one's pleasures, the greater the pain.
— Soseki Natsume
The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lieftime.
— James Joyce
Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?
— Charles Caleb Colton
We do not include the pleasures we enjoy in sleep in the inventory of the pleasures we have experienced in the course of our existence.
— Marcel Proust
Expectations ruin the pleasures of life. To overcome every bad and appreciate every good, consider every day your last and take no one for granted.
— Nael Gharzeddine
Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.
— Michael Broadbent
Sure, I eat because I have to. But I also eat because I want to. It is one of life's few pleasures.
— Tony DiTerlizzi
Sun lighting a child's hair. A friend's embrace. Slow dancing in a safe and quiet place. The pleasures of an ordinary life.
— Judith Viorst
Save money on the big, boring stuff so that you have something left over for life's little pleasures.
— Elisabeth Leamy
Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
— Anita Diamant
We need to confront the life-killing stereotype that says we're all about suffering. We need to bear witness to our pleasures.
— Harriet McBryde Johnson
Do not sell your soul for a bucketful of pleasures and temptations. It's God's priceless gift to you.
— Christian Hunt
Enjoying nonsense is one of life's primal pleasures.
— Marty Rubin
There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.
— William Hazlitt
The impermanence of the universe is manifest, inescapable. I know that, yet I am immoderately attached to this life, these pleasures, this place.
— Stephanie Mills
I suppose longevity requires giving up life's pleasures, one by one, until there's nothing left.
— Gary Inbinder
Balance life's stressors with life's pleasures.
— Norene Moskalski
When we turn life's little pleasures into remedies for life's troubles, we are setting up idols in our hearts, which actually push God aside.
— Lydia Brownback
My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.
— Barbara Taylor Bradford
When you're dead, it robs life of many of it's pleasures
— Harvey Pekar
I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
For what is life, a good life, but the accumulation of small pleasures?
— J. Maarten Troost
Oh, remember this, the sweetness of religion is incomparably more than all the pleasures of sense. — William Bates
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. — Jane Austen
Life is shortAnd pleasures few
And holed the ship
And drowned the crew
But o! But o!
How very blue
the sea is. — Clive Barker
We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness. — Philip Massinger
Eating is one of the great pleasures of life. — Adam Mansbach
The fundamental truth of democracy is the belief that the real pleasures of life are increased by sharing them. — Henry Dwight Sedgwick
We were created for meaningful work, and one of life's greatest pleasures is the satisfaction of a job well done. — John C. Maxwell
You know, Nabby, there's mighty few pleasures in life to equal doing one's job. It is an act of love ... -p. 131 — Irving Stone
The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation. — Benjamin Disraeli
Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford. — Samuel Johnson
Intellectual discussion, after all, is the real joy of the winter of life, when other pleasures have flown, as it were. — John Barth
Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Satan is never your well-wisher. Get the pleasure of making him annoyed on you by doing good deeds — Munia Khan
We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle - even if he can afford more. — Masaru Ibuka
Few pleasures are greater than knowing you can close your door, ignore the world and create your own. — Tibor Fischer
Reading is one of life's great pleasures; talking about books keeps their worlds alive for longer. — Kate Morton
Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life. — George Meredith
I never in my life argued with a piece of cake or a bowl of ice cream. — Ray Bradbury
One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before. — Kin Hubbard
Jealousy is only hurt ego. Revenge is meaningless. Life is abstract. There is no point other than pleasure. — Chloe Thurlow
Why is it you think you'll live forever and why do you want to, I'd like to know, when you deny yourselves so many of the basic pleasures in life? — Nora Roberts
Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration. — Roger Zelazny
If you don't love the sea, the sun, all the simple pleasures, what sort of life are you going to have? — Marty Rubin
Envy, bitter envy, was permeating his soul drop by drop, like a poison that tainted all his pleasures and made his life hateful. — Guy De Maupassant
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. — Joseph Addison
Life itself is selfless giving. We're not given this life just for own amusement and pleasures. — Frederick Lenz
One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week. — Mignon McLaughlin
An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age. — Isaac D'Israeli
Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal. — Periander
...we see life as deeply in our pleasures as in our pains. — Adam Gopnik
Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures. — Edwin Louis Cole
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death? — Novalis
All the other pleasures of life seem to wear out, but the pleasure of helping others in distress never does. — Julius Rosenwald
To a literate reader, a crisp sentence, an arresting metaphor, a witty aside, an elegant turn of phrase are among life's greatest pleasures. And — Steven Pinker
God is everything that is good, she writes. All life's pleasures and comforts are sacramental; they are God's hands touching us. — Julian Of Norwich
Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened. — Thrity Umrigar
A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing. — Samuel Rogers
I love to dance so much. It's one of my guilty pleasures in life and my hobby. — Mia Maestro
I do have a thing for eating out; that's one of life's great middle-age pleasures. — Rick Astley
If I have done anything, even a little, to help small children enjoy honest, simple pleasures, I have done a bit of good. — Beatrix Potter
Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world ... — E.A. Bucchianeri
They tended towards the simple pleasures in life: drinking, whoring and fighting, preferably all three at once. — Ilona Andrews
If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life. Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come. — Aristotle.
Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes — Luigi Pirandello
It will change your life if you accept her offer. Common pleasures will no longer hold sway over you. It's somewhat like catching religion. — Erik Bundy
PSA16.11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. — Anonymous
He took pleasure in her inconsequential talk just as he did in the sunshine and the snow. — Ursula K. Le Guin
When you come to God, the devil will remind you about the pleasures of sin — Sunday Adelaja
We can't turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls. — G.K. Chesterton
Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life. — Jeremy Taylor
I had a moral tutor, but never saw him (the only words of his I remember are 'The three pleasures of life -drinking, smoking, and masturbation') — Philip Larkin
Some of life's best pleasures are simplest ones. Enrich your life with more of them and your heart will be happy. — Robin S. Sharma
When you die, God and the Angels will hold you accountable for all the pleasures you were allowed in life that you denied yourself. — Roger Housden
Simply enjoy life and the great pleasures that come with it. — Karolina Kurkova
Depending on where you live, cooking, sex and pooping are either 3 of life's pleasures or what kills you — Bill Gates
In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature. — Sei Shonagon
Savour life's pleasures in abundance — Ginger Sullivan
I have always loved food. I began cooking for my family as a young girl, and to this day, it's one of my greatest pleasures in life. — Suzanne Somers
One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated pleasures in defecation. — Mark Twain
Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest. — Laurie Colwin
The wise individual doesn't get too attached to any of life's pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it's bad for him. — Bill Vaughan
Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt. — Mignon McLaughlin
Love makes life's sweetest pleasures and worst misfortunes. — Madeleine De Scudery
I followed all life's pleasures wherever they would lead, but someone I can treasure is all I really need. — Neil Diamond
For the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know, — Banjo Paterson
The difference is great between one's outside "life," the things which happen to one, incidents, pains and pleasures, and one's "living." — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Like cats and ice cream, showers were among life's simple, uncomplicated pleasures. — Mary Jo Putney
Life's pleasures were so simple, really. It was all a matter of appreciating what you had - and knowing that things could always be worse. — Meg Rosoff
