Top 1200 Greatest Pleasures Quotes & Sayings

Work, especially if you're lucky in what you do, is one of the great pleasures of life, but - like all pleasures - it can become selfish.

Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.

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

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.

What greater delight and wonder can there be than to leave the straight lines of personality and deviate into these footpaths that lead beneath brambles and thick tree trunks into the heart of the forest where live those wild beasts, our fellow men? That is true: to escape is the greatest of pleasures; street haunting in winter the greatest of adventures.

The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.

Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?

Throwing yourself into a job you enjoy is one of the life's greatest pleasures!

Devotion to the facts will always give the pleasures of recognition; adherence to the rules of design, the pleasures of order and certainty.

Yes, expertise puts on in position to have further, cognitive pleasures, but these pleasures are distinct from the sensory pleasure of tasting wines

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

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

One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food

It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other.

The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading

Love makes the greatest pleasures and most sensitive misfortunes of life.

The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral.

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.

Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.

It is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built.

In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature.

Fervent religious believers sacrifice pleasures of the body, but instead enjoy pleasures of the mind, including the joy of knowing that those men who didn't follow their religion would be tortured for eternity.

The greatest achievement is selflessness. The greatest worth is self-mastery. The greatest quality is seeking to serve others. The greatest precept is continual awareness. The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything. The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways. The greatest magic is transmuting the passions. The greatest generosity is non-attachment. The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind. The greatest patience is humility. The greatest effort is not concerned with results. The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go. The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

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

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

The greatest pleasures of love are inseparable from its greatest pains: Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of a lion.

Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.

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

One of my greatest pleasures is being on the farmland that's been in the family since 1833.

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. C. S. LEWIS, Out of the Silent Planet True pleasures are paid for in advance; false pleasures afterwards, with heavy and compound interest.

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

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

It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating.

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.

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.

I am a man without many pleasures in life, a man whose few pleasures are small, but a man whose small pleasures are very important to him. One of them is eating. One reading. Another reading while eating.

I once heard that Quentin Tarantino, who I obviously love and think is a genius, says that there's no such thing as guilty pleasure, there's only pleasures. And I do love that idea, because I do think that there's a pretentiousness when people make a list of their favorite things. I like to live a life where I don't think of my pleasures as guilty pleasures.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.

Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.

No pleasure is evil in itself; but the means by which certain pleasures are gained bring pains many times greater than the pleasures.

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.

The morality of scholarship, as currently practiced, is to encourage everyone to replace difficult pleasures by pleasures universally accessible precisely because they are easier.

One of my greatest pleasures is writing on my Web site.

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

One of my greatest pleasures in my writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the realization that such people rarely read.

Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child.

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

I do not find fault with equality for drawing men into the pursuit of forbidden pleasures, but for absorbing them entirely in the search for the pleasures that are permitted.

Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.

There is a line that I always loved from Lucretius. He said, "The sublime is the art of exchanging easier for more difficult pleasures." The presumption of that formulation is that the more difficult pleasures are actually better than the easier pleasures. That is why one makes the exchange.

We were created for meaningful work, and one of life's greatest pleasures is the satisfaction of a job well done.

The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

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

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.

The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory.