I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
Oscar Wilde
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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Oscar Wilde
Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.
Oscar Wilde
Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.
Lord Chesterfield
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
Herbert Spencer
The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight.
Desiderius Erasmus
To laugh with others is one of life's great pleasures. To be laughed at by others is one of life's great hurts.
Frank Tyger
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
The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
Luc De Clapier De Vauvanargues
I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.
Samuel Butler
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
Samuel Johnson
One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.
O. A. Battista
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
Bertrand Russell
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Henry David Thoreau
Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.
Henry David Thoreau
...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.
Billy Collins
It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.
Pema Chodron
Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.
Joshua Loth Liebman
One half of the world can not understand the pleasures of the other.
Jane Austen
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Harold Bloom
To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.
Charles Buxton
Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.
Jerome K. Jerome
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
St. Thomas Aquinas
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 me, reading and eating are two of life's greatest pleasures. (The festival) is bringing them together.
Sue Searing
Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.
Richard Steele, Sr.
We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
John Petit senn
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Charles Caleb Colton
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.
Edward G. Bulwer lytton
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.
Charles Caleb Colton
A man, to be greatly good, must magine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and in many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
We have palatable pleasures for all tastes.
Sonnie Bentley
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
Marie Henri Beyle (stendhal)
The past with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, it punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
Lillian Hellman
There cannot live an unhappier creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.
William Temple, Sr.
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Kahlil Gibran
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
Francois Ftnelon
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.
Jane Smiley
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian
All pleasures contain an element of sadness.
Jonathan Eibeschutz
As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name.
Sri Sarada Devi
Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.
John Howard Payne
A creature's pleasures are extravagant and luxurious; sunk in lust and looking for pleasure, men undergo (again and again) birth and decay.
Friedrich Max Muller
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
William Wycherley
Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.
Vita Sackville west
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; all spiritual pleasures, more in fruition than in expectation.
Owen Felltham
Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
Democritus
Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted.
Willem Dafoe
If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional and common sense continual.
Robertson Davies
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
Bernard Malamud
When our old Pleasures die, Some new One still is nigh; Oh! fair Variety!
Nicholas Rowe
To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
In today's busy world, people want an escape, ... They look to the almanac to connect to simple pleasures.
Sondra Duncan
Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.
Jeremy Taylor
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
Joseph Addison
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