pleasure

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure, if you know how to use it. The gradually (I do not say rapidly) declining years are amongst the sweetest in a man's life; and, I maintain, that even where they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

The great source of pleasure is variety.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

"I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

His death eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.

The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting.