Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
John Stuart Mill

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
W. Somerset Maugham

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.
Giacomo Leopardi

One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
Denis Diderot

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Jane Austen

One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.
Nora Roberts

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
Malcolm Muggeridge

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.
Orlando A. Battista

One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism.
Joseph Epstein

One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else's shoes. And when I look at the roles I've played, I'm kind of amazed at all the wonderful adventures I've had and the different things I've learned.
Willem Dafoe

Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.
Mary Richards

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
John Dryden

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
Joseph Joubert

Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.
Dmitri Mendeleev

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
Madonna Ciccone

Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives.
John Zimmerman

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
Bertrand Russell

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
Bernard Malamud