Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism.
Joseph Epstein
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
Francois Fenelon
Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
Joseph Joubert
The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those not exclusively dependent upon them.
Tony Judt
To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.
Stanislaw Lem
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
A. J. Liebling
Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
James Russell Lowell
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
Bernard Malamud
There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But... →
Nagarjuna