The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. ~ Walter Bagehot

It isn’t the great big pleasures that count the most; it’s making a great deal our of the little ones. ~ Jean Webster

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Buying is profound pleasure. ~ Simone de Beauvoir

The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy. ~ Kahlil Gibran

The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others. ~ Jean de La Bruyère

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure. ~ John D. Rockefeller

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life. ~ Agnes Repplier

Pleasure is everything. ~ Diana Vreeland

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. ~ Søren Kierkegaard

In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain. ~ Leigh Hunt

It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most, it's making a great deal out of the little ones. ~ Jean Webster

I come from a long line of women who see pleasure--delight in living and loving with all your heart--as dangerous, because it leaves you wide open to rejection. ~ Cathleen Medwick

The living pleasures, the almost awesome ones, are the simplest. Notably these are three: to walk, to look, and to eat. ~ Emmett Hughes