#Simple Pleasures Quotes

“For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.”

“There is not a better day in the world to be spent than with a lot of wise old cowmen around barbecued beef, black coffee and good "free holy" beans.”

“Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.”

“I just drove past Brad Paisley jogging down the side of the road. I rolled down the window and screamed RUN FORREST RUN. I live for….. little moments…..like that.”

“Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.”

“I still love writing in my journal and wearing sparkly dresses and looking at old chandeliers.”

“Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.”

“Sandwich outdoors isn’t a sandwich anymore. Tastes different than indoors, notice? Got more spice. Tastes like mint and pinesap. Does wonders for the appetite.”

“It doesn't take a lot to make me happy. I take pleasure from everything I do.”

“I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona - no lime. If the phone rings, I won't answer until I'm done.”

“She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence.”

“I get up in the morning, and I'm reluctant to turn on the television.”

“Shut the door not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the coziness.”

“I was happy over little things: mango sorbet, and running, and the way my feet felt touching the ground when I ran.”

“Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?”

“i love playing and chatting with children...feeding and putting them to bed with a little story, and being away from the family has troubled me throughout my...life. i like relaxing at the house, reading quietly, taking in the sweet smell that comes from the pots, sitting around a table with the family and taking out my wife and children. when you can no longer enjoy these simple pleasures something valuable is taken away from your life and you feel it in your daily work.”

“Happiness is a chance to talk to a friend, to hear good music, to have a good glass of wine. Happiness is a chance to be myself and to find people with whom I agree or who I don't agree but I can learn something.”

“On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.”

“The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.”

“After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one's person.”

“Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.”

“I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face.”

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”

“Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?”

“As a kid I had a dream - I wanted to own my own bicycle. When I got the bike I must have been the happiest boy in Liverpool, maybe the world. I lived for that bike. Most kids left their bike in the backyard at night. Not me. I insisted on taking mine indoors and the first night I even kept it in my bed.”

“Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.”

“To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”

“After some time he felt for his pipe. It was not broken, and that was something. Then he felt for his pouch, and there was some tobacco in it, and that was something more. Then he felt for matches and he could not find any at all, and that shattered his hopes completely.”

“Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.”

“we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.”

“I enjoy going to Starbucks, having a cup of coffee, sitting in my car, driving from here to there, sitting at home looking at the trees, going for a walk with a dog. It's all very enjoyable.”

“I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks.”

“There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.”

“...the sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over a pint of beer, or a man alone reading a book that interests him..." - C.S. Lewis: Weight of Glory”

“Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.”

“In fine weather the old gentelman is almost constantly in the garden; and when it is too wet to go into it, he will look out the window at it, by the hour together. He has always something to do there, and you will see him digging, and sweeping, and cutting, and planting, with manifest delight.”

“The return from the walk, and the arrival of tea, should be exactly coincident, and not later than a quarter past four.”

“The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.”

“The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever.”

“I woke up this morning,Smiled at the rising sun,Three little birds,Sat on my doorstep,Singing sweet songs”

“Love, friendship, laughter... Some of the best things in life really are free.”