Pleasure

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude

A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor

A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and reason - and indeed all the sweets of life.

The important question is not what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable