Top 131 Zest Quotes & Sayings

Adventure-seasoned and storm-buffeted, I shun all signs of anchorage, because The zest of life exceeds the bound of laws.

No one attacks loose-thinking and folly with half the precision and zest of Thomas Szasz.

As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.

If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

I had a passionate zest for Key West life in all of its little details. I'm not sure why or where that came from, but I was so excited to be there.

Women add zest to the unlicensed hours.

So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors æons ago.

For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence; for thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.

In very truth it is the unattained which gives zest to the commonplace and brims the cup of our daily life with keenest joy.

to teach without zest is a crime.

One wit, like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a zest and flavour to the dish, but more than one serves only to spoil the pottage.

Before the age of adulteration it was held that behind each work there stood some conception of its perfect execution. It was this that gave zest to labor and served to measure the degree of success.

Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat

There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.

Nothing gives life more zest that running for your life.

Strictly has just given me a real zest for life. Life is so short. We should all grasp it.

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

A zest for living must include a willingness to die.

I have a lot of respect for Ovechkin as a player. I like his enthusiasm. I know the kid has a zest for life and a joy for the game.

Everyone should have a deep-seated interest or hobby to enrich his mind, add zest to living, and perhaps, depending upon what it is, result in a service to his country.

Temperance adds zest to pleasure.

In times of unrest and in an unstable economy, it is very easy to let your attitude slip and begin feeling sorry for yourself. This is precisely when you want to practice healthy attitudinal rules to stay alert, alive and enthusiastic. Don't ever lose the zest for life and life won't lose its zest for you. Say something positive to every person you meet today.

Life is enthusiasm, zest.

The child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon it clings to it with zest. And thus at wisdom's copious breasts You'll drink each day with greater zest.

I shall grow old, but never lose life's zest, because the road's last turn will be the best.

Champagne is the one thing that gives me zest when I am tired.

When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.

The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They're full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.

I am sarcastic and dry, but I also have a pretty huge zest for life.

Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.

As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.

If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.

It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.

I guess it's just another one of life's little mysteries." "I'm tired of mysteries." "Yeah? I think they add a kind of zest to the world. Like salt in a stew.

This bright new year is given me To live each day with zest To daily grow and try to be My highest and my best!

There's been bumps in the road and serious challenges along the way, but my love for NASCAR and my zest for life is what's most important to me.

What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.

It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy.

A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.

You know I am given to antiquarian and genealogical pursuits. An old family letter is a delight to my eyes. I can prowl in old trunks of letters by the day with undiminished zest.

I think one in five Americans has a disability of some sort. That's 20% of the population, and yet we rarely ever see people with disabilities on-screen, and their stories and their resilience and their zest for life and their humor and their humanity.

Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.

My mother does not give up and she never has on anything. I love her zest for life. She has never ever let me accept defeat when it comes to goals that I've had or even if it is just making sure that I never lose my zest for life.

Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these words used. How rarely do we see people living, or for that matter, creating, by them. Yet if I were asked to name the most important items in a writer's make-up, the things that shape his material and rush him along the road he wants to go. I would only warn him to look to his zest, see to his gusto.

Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death.

Personally, I believe people who have a lots of memories are people who are living with zest.

Thank Fate for foes! I hold mine dear As valued friends. He cannot know The zest of life who runneth here His earthly race without a foe.

The zest of life lies in right doing, not in the garnered harvest.

After the demands of the ego and its greed surrendered, the struggle for fulfillment of personal desires lessens; life takes on a new zest like a breath of fresh air.

The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning.

I've kept alive my childlike innocence. I don't let anything or anyone dampen my zest for life. Now, that's very important.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

My friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory. The old lie: It is sweet and fitting that you should die for your country.

Without zest, what is life? Just waiting for death? It can't be anything else. Only with zest do you live; otherwise you vegetate.

Without zest, what is life? Just waiting for death?

Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.

In bad times and in good I've never lost my sense of zest for life.

I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.