Greatest Pleasures Quotes Page 2

Our greatest pleasure, surely, is in fragments, just as we derive the most pleasure from life if we regard it as a fragment, whereas the whole and the complete and the perfect are basically abhorrent.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

One of the greatest pleasures I get from my measly professional career is confusing people.

Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life;

chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.

The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Anyone who is observant, who discovers the person they have always dreamed of, knows that sexual energy comes into play before sex even takes place. The greatest pleasure isn't sex, but the passion with which it is practiced. When the passion is intense, then sex joins in to complete the dance, but it is never the principal aim.

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

Some of my greatest pleasures have come from finding ways to overcome obstacles.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

The next greatest pleasure to love is to talk of love.

Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.

It is the greatest pleasure of living to win souls to Christ.

Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure;

neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well.

Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.

Of the laws of nature, on which the condition of man depends, that which is attended with the greatest number of consequences, is the necessity of labor for obtaining the means of subsistence, as well as the means of the greatest part of our pleasure.

I am blessed beyond the realms of blessedness, and easily the greatest pleasure is giving it away

This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.

To me the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

The Greatest evils inflicted by man over the face of the Earth are wrought not by the self-seekers, the pleasure lovers, or the merely amoral, but by the fervent devotees of ethical principles.

Playing sports has always been my greatest pleasure.

I don't smoke, I hardly drink alcohol. Sports helped get me into the presidential palace. My first position in the union was that of sports secretary.

We're all on a journey - each one of us.

And if we can be sensitive to the person who happens to be our neighbor, that, to me, is the greatest challenge as well as the greatest pleasure.

Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.

What I so like about Poussin and Cezanne is their sense of organization.

Ilike the way in which they develop space and shape in architecturalcontinuity - the rhythm across their paintings. When I paint a landscape, Iget the greatest pleasure out of composing it. As I paint, I try to work outa visual sonata form or a fugue, with realistic images.

One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil;

nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god. [Lat., Fortis vero, dolorem summum malum judicans; aut temperans, voluptatem summum bonum statuens, esse certe nullo modo potest.]

Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of a lion.