My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.
Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I confess they would have no charms for me. I should infinitely prefer a book.
Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.
Other things titillate me more keenly than the pale pleasures of marriage.
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
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.
A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.
As life's pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs. Now that's better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.
I'm an 18-year-old boy, and I'm having fun. I'm just not having as much fun as people make out.
In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.
Food has it over sex for variety. Hedonistically, gustatory possibilities are much broader than copulatory ones.
The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.
The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.
The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.
Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature of man more continuously, and more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.
Belief is as necessary to the soul as pleasures are necessary to the body.
Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none.
there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no denying that.
Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.
For sure, even the worst blow job is better than, say, sniffing the best rose ... watching the greatest sunset. Hearing children laugh.
