Top 51 Greatest Pleasures Quotes
#1. There's something so beautiful in coming on one's very inmost thoughts in another. In one way it is one of the greatest pleasures one has.
Olive Schreiner
#2. Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
Democritus
#4. We were created for meaningful work, and one of life's greatest pleasures is the satisfaction of a job well done.
John C. Maxwell
#5. The happiest lot is not to have experienced the keenest delights or the greatest pleasures, but to have brought life to a close without any very great pain, bodily or mental.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#6. If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.
Epictetus
#7. To a literate reader, a crisp sentence, an arresting metaphor, a witty aside, an elegant turn of phrase are among life's greatest pleasures. And
Steven Pinker
#8. Reading and naps, two of life's greatest pleasures, go especially well together.
Will Schwalbe
#9. Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.
Mignon McLaughlin
#10. I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pleasures I know.
Ann M. Martin
#11. I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.
Colleen McCullough
#13. I have always loved food. I began cooking for my family as a young girl, and to this day, it's one of my greatest pleasures in life.
Suzanne Somers
#14. I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself,
Oscar Wilde
#15. Being alone can be a very effective way of calming down and is also enjoyable, especially if engaged in a special interest, one of the greatest pleasures in life for someone with Asperger's syndrome.
Tony Attwood
#16. One of my greatest pleasures in life is promising myself I will not drink, or smoke, or take coke, or do heroin, or eat cookies, then doing it. It's a pleasure that can be repeated daily.
Amanda Filipacchi
#17. Throwing yourself into a job you enjoy is one of the life's greatest pleasures!
Richard Branson
#18. Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Thomas Aquinas
#19. One of my greatest pleasures is a good cut of meat, and the bloodier the better. Just show them the flame, I always tell my cook. Just show it to them.
Joe Abercrombie
#20. Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.
W. Somerset Maugham
#21. He'd tried fishing, dancing, gambling and drink, allegedly four of life's greatest pleasures, and wasn't sure that he saw the point. Food he was happy with - Death liked a good meal as much as anyone else.
Anonymous
#22. One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the saddening realization that such people rarely read.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#23. One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.
Nora Roberts
#24. One of the greatest pleasures of working on shows is that I enjoy watching the actors - who are all younger than me now - and their careers. I love seeing how they're doing and seeing them getting good gigs and doing well.
Kelly Bishop
#25. I grew up babysitting and always enjoyed it. I love family. A couple of my closest friends have kids, and I'm their godfather, and that's one of my greatest pleasures in life, just picking them up from school and hanging out with them.
Matthew Perry
#26. One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food
Edna Lewis
#27. Style, not least, adds beauty to the world. To a literate reader, a crisp sentence, an arresting metaphor, a witty aside, an elegant turn of phrase are among life's greatest pleasures.
Steven Pinker
#28. The fictional world seems larger, seems to have more dimension and richness when, for example, the protagonist from one novel you've read has a cameo role in another. I think that recognition is a very, very powerful phenomenon; it is one of the deepest and greatest pleasures of reading.
Paul Harding
#29. The greatest pleasures are born of conquered repugnancies.
Marquis De Sade
#30. Proof seduces them. One of the greatest pleasures of the human race is thinking.
Bertolt Brecht
#31. For some obscure reason, some authorities seem bent on making the drinking of wine a ritual more complicated than chess. They have succeeded in inhibiting a large section of the public and depriving them of one of the greatest pleasures known to man.
Craig Claiborne
#32. Thinking is one of the greatest pleasures of the human race.
Bertolt Brecht
#33. One of my greatest pleasures in motor racing is qualifying. You have loads of freedom from pushing a lap the whole way. I've always been very good in qualifying in the past; everything I've done, I've got pole positions.
Bruno Senna
#34. Some of my greatest pleasures have come from finding ways to overcome obstacles.
John Wooden
#35. We derive our greatest pleasures not from novelty but from familiarity.
Raymond Radiguet
#37. It is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#38. Companionship was at the top of Epicurus's list of life's pleasures. He wrote, 'Of all the things that wisdom provides to help one live one's entire life in happiness, the greatest by far is the possession of friendship.
Daniel Klein
#39. One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#40. The redeemed, through all eternity, will never taste one of the pleasures of sin; yet their happiness is complete. It would be my greatest happiness to be from this moment entirely like them.
Andrew A. Bonar
#41. I love this word 'Sorry'. It has the greatest affection that can outrule the world concurring pleasures and people
D.N. Joshi
#42. We were made for God, and until he is our greatest pleasure, all the other pleasures of this life will lead to emptiness.
Kyle Idleman
#43. For pleasures past I do not grieve, Nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave No thing that claims a tear.
George Gordon Byron
#44. The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else, or, they are not content in getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, while at the same time enjoying all the pleasures and gratitude's of life.
Eustace Budgell
#45. Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.
Oliver Goldsmith
#46. Indeed, one of the highest pleasures is to be more or less unconscious of one's own existence, to be absorbed in interesting sights, sounds, places, and people. Conversely, one of the greatest pains is to be self-conscious, to feel unabsorbed and cut off from the community and the surrounding world.
Alan W. Watts
#47. The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.
Aristotle.
#48. Thought is the greatest of pleasures - pleasure itself is only imagination - have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?
Gustave Flaubert
#49. The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.
Ben Hogan
#50. If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
Elbert Hubbard
#51. The outside world will never understand that submission is not subjugation to another person, it's letting yourself be free of all those things that hold you back from experiencing the greatest sexual pleasures.
Michelle Hughes
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