A bad or mediocre meal is more than just an unpleasant taste, it is an unnecessary negation of one of life's pleasures - a wasted chance to refine our palates, learn about the world, and share a rewarding experience.
Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives.
I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.
In life, you have to keep certain parts of yourself in check because you want to be a decent human being. But one of the guilty pleasures of acting is that sometimes you get to let a little something out that you don't in life because it's not right.
Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather to serve the pleasures of the flesh than to serve the Lord, and refuse to accept the Gospel life, there is no common ground between me and them.
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.
Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures.
I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.
Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.
The enjoyment we get from something is powerfully influenced by what we think that thing really is. This is true for intellectual pleasures, such as the appreciation of paintings and stories, and it is true as well for pleasures that seem simpler and more animalistic, such as the satisfaction of hunger and lust.
Monday is great if I can spend it in bed. I'm a man of simple pleasures, really.
To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.
I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus.
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child.
As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored.
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
We are brunch hounds. We also like movie dates. There's a lot of diners, a lot of movies. We're 'simple pleasures' people. It doesn't have to be crazy. It could be a 'Law and Order' marathon on the couch, or it could be dinner or a show. We like to mix it up.
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.
Pleasures take to themselves wings and fly away; true knowledge remains forever.
Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
For me, the most luxurious place is somewhere that allows you to feel emotions and pleasures.
I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I insult. I have a gift for that, for insults, for provocation. So I am tempted to use it.
This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.
I actually have a lot of guilty pleasures.
There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost.