Quotes on Greatest Pleasures

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to people things they knew but did not know they knew. Or did not realize everyone else knew, too. This produces a warm sense of fellow feeling and is the best a writer can do.

The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.

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

I was a stray acquaintance whom he had never seem before and would never see again, a wandered for a moment through his monotonous life, and some starved impulse left him to lay bare his soul. I have in this way learned more about men in a night than I could if I had known them for 10 years. If you are interested in human nature, it is one of the greatest pleasures of travel.

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

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

It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of their books

The ideal hole is surely one that affords the greatest pleasure to the greatest number, gives the fullest advantage for accurate play, stimulates players to improve their game, and never becomes monotonous.

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

In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

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

Worship is yet another paradox of the religious life: it is simultaneously the greatest duty and the greatest pleasure of faith. Worship is the act of truly loving God. Believe in this brilliant Being, this magnificent "higher power," who not only created us but nurtures us with care and intelligence beyond our imagination, and obviously we are called to worship Him.

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

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