No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
John Petit-Senn
I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there's nothing guilty about it.
Busy Philipps
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.
George Plimpton
Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.
Thomas de Quincey
Diseases are the tax on pleasures.
John Ray
The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.
Samuel Richardson
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
Stendhal
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Henry David Thoreau
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Voltaire