Leo Rosten Quotes

All of my pleasures are guilty, but that's just the way I'm wired.

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

I don't think you should feel guilty about pleasure. Defeats the purpose.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure.

I really don't have a guilty pleasure.

I don't feel guilty in having pleasure!

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

I have no guilt about any of my pleasures.

Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?

I am a gourmand. I like to eat. When I have something that I like, I tend to have too much of it. That is a guilty pleasure.

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.

I eat everything. I love it! I couldn't deny myself food. What a waste of a life.

I've always loved the idea of 'Guilty Pleasures.'

I don't feel guilty about any of my pleasures.

But there's so much to do: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on.

An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment before caution, and soon brings its own punishment.

I had sold my soul for pleasure.

When there is pleasure, there is often abandon, and mistakes are made.

I mean, most fun things are bad for you in one way or another.

What's my guilty pleasure? The thing is, I never feel guilty about pleasures.

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.