Joel Rosenberg Quotes

A lot of things we don't have to have, but they're enjoyable.

Everyone loves feeling comfortable. But it's actually completely useless.

There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.

Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.

Decadence is wonderful.

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

Luxury is anything you don't need, right? I mean, you need food, water, clothing, shelter... but good wine, good food, beautiful interiors, nice clothes; those aren't necessities, they are luxuries - it's all luxury.

I love my creature comforts.

This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

My life screams out and says one thing: 'indulgence.' I am a person who would never deny myself anything.

Luxury is a difficult object to describe - it's been the object of hundreds of years of discussion. We definitely don't need it, but it's good for the soul.

I'm someone who likes to live it up.

I think if you were to ask me when I was much younger what my definition of the good life was, I think it would have sounded a lot like what most people would say - a life with all the things you want and everything you think you need to make you happy, and these sorts of things.

How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene. 'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to go there in my own carriage, have my own box, and come back in comfort. All or nothing, that's my motto.' 'And a very good one,' said Madame Vauquer.

The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it.

Now, I was a fan of the simple pleasures in life: grilled cheese sandwiches without black flecks on the crust, jeans that didn't pinch the better parts of me, an inch of vodka, ten to twelve hours of sleep. - Cole St Clair, Forever.

If I paid $3 or $4 for a cigar, first I'd sleep with it.

Pleasure itself is not a vice

Too much of a good thing is wonderful.

Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.