For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
Lord Byron

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian

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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

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

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
William Wycherley

Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.
Irving Langmuir

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!
Charles Dickens

However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned.
Helen Dunmore

I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
Aldous Huxley

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.

I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.
Bell Hooks

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

I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
C. S. Lewis

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.
Frederik Pohl

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.
Epictetus

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
Elbert Hubbard

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
Robertson Davies

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Voltaire

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Oscar Wilde