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There are two things that we should avoid, oh disciple! A life of pleasures, that is low and vain. A life of mortification, that is useless and vain.
— Gautama Buddha
The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lieftime.
— James Joyce
Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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
Any day could be the last of life or liberty, so small pleasures were always worth pursuing.
— Lee Child
Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.
— Michael Broadbent
We should enjoy food and have fun. It is one of the simplest and nicest pleasures in life.
— Julia Child
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
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
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
We were made for God, and until he is our greatest pleasure, all the other pleasures of this life will lead to emptiness.
— Kyle Idleman
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
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 the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food
— Edna Lewis
The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.
— Luc De Clapiers
Far superior to the pleasures and rewards of the illusion that is Earthly life are the pleasure and rewards of the Reality.
— Ian Gardner
To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.
— Robert Breault
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
— Thomas Aquinas
Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.
— Samuel Johnson
Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest.
— Thomas Huxley
A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.
— Madame De Stael
A cooperative spirit enjoys a better harvest.
— T.F. Hodge
You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to god your tears are shed, You who Weap!
— Alexandre Dumas
Love makes the greatest pleasures and most sensitive misfortunes of life.
— Madeleine De Scudery
Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest.
— Laurie Colwin
You live your entire life trapped in a sack of meat, unable to enjoy simple pleasures
— Rick Riordan
higher income is associated with a reduced ability to enjoy the small pleasures of life.
— Daniel Kahneman
Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Everything that is full of life loves change,
for the characteristic of life is movement toward a new goal and urges toward new pleasures — Fulton J. Sheen
for the characteristic of life is movement toward a new goal and urges toward new pleasures — Fulton J. Sheen
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
As we advance in life the circle of our pains enlarges, while that of our pleasures contracts.
— Sophie Swetchine
The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life
— Ludwig Feuerbach
A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and indeed, all the sweets of life.
— Mary Engelbreit
If I could do my life over, I would try to cleanse at least my pleasures of self-pity.
— Mason Cooley
Satan is never your well-wisher. Get the pleasure of making him annoyed on you by doing good deeds
— Munia Khan
One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.
— Mignon McLaughlin
If you don't love the sea, the sun, all the simple pleasures, what sort of life are you going to have?
— Marty Rubin
Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.
— Roger Zelazny
Jealousy is only hurt ego. Revenge is meaningless. Life is abstract. There is no point other than pleasure.
— Chloe Thurlow
Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life.
— George Meredith
Reading is one of life's great pleasures; talking about books keeps their worlds alive for longer.
— Kate Morton
Few pleasures are greater than knowing you can close your door, ignore the world and create your own.
— Tibor Fischer
An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.
— Isaac D'Israeli
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
The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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
We were created for meaningful work, and one of life's greatest pleasures is the satisfaction of a job well done.
— John C. Maxwell
The fundamental truth of democracy is the belief that the real pleasures of life are increased by sharing them.
— Henry Dwight Sedgwick
Eating is one of the great pleasures of life.
— Adam Mansbach
We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness.
— Philip Massinger
Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes
— Luigi Pirandello
Depending on where you live, cooking, sex and pooping are either 3 of life's pleasures or what kills you
— Bill Gates
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
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
Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.
— Jeremy Taylor
Oh, remember this, the sweetness of religion is incomparably more than all the pleasures of sense.
— William Bates
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
He took pleasure in her inconsequential talk just as he did in the sunshine and the snow.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature.
— Sei Shonagon
Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world ...
— E.A. Bucchianeri
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
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
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