Synonyms for pleasures
plea·sures

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1. List of paraphrases for "pleasures":

   joys, delights, fun

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1. Oliver Goldsmith:

   If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

2. Kin Hubbard:

   One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.

3. Dean Koontz, Watchers:

   Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.

4. C. S. Lewis:

   I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

5. Camille Paglia:

   Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due.