Greatest Pleasures Quotes

• The greatest pleasure of life is love.

  Euripides

  Love, Life, Pleasure

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• The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

  Charles Lamb

  Character, Deeds Done, Charity

  "The Life, Letters and Writings of Charles Lamb".

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Funny, Success, Motivation

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• In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Pleasure, Pleasures Of Life, Satiety

  "De Oratore (On the Orator)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book III, Chapter 25), 55 BC.

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• The greatest pleasure in life is love.

  William Temple

  Sweet, Engagement, Life Is

  Sir William Temple, Jonathan Swift, Lady Martha Giffard (1740). “The life and character of Sir William Temple, written by a particular friend [his sister Lady Giffard] Observations upon the United provinces of the Netherlands. Miscellanea. Memoirs, the third part, from the peace concluded 1679 to the time of the author's retirement from publick business. Memoirs of what past in Christendom from the war begun 1672, to the peace concluded 1679”, p.309

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  I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

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• A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

  Walter Bagehot

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Walter Bagehot (1858). “Estimates of Some Englishmen and Scotchmen”, p.272

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• Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Morning, Creativity

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• Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

  Plato

  Plato, Pleasure Love, Evil

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• People will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.37, Random House

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

  Ivan Panin

  Lions, Faces, Goddess

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

  Harold Bloom

  Reading, Solitude, Pleasure

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

  Richard Branson

  Jobs, Fun, Adventure

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• The second greatest pleasure after love is talking about it.

  Louise Labe

  Love, Talking, Pleasure

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• What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Wish, Pleasure

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

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Pleasure, Charm

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• Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not know its cause, or when the cause of the particular effect is one that exceeds his power of understanding. Hence, wonder is a cause of pleasure insofar as there is annexed the hope of attaining understanding of that which one wants to know. ... For desire is especially aroused by the awareness of ignorance, and consequently a man takes the greatest pleasure in those things which he discovers for himself or learns from the ground up.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

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

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Determination, Overcoming

  John Wooden, Jay Carty (2005). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success Playbook”, p.50, Revell

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

  Dale Carnegie

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Men

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

  Madeleine de Scudery

  Love, Life, Romantic

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• Breathing is the greatest pleasure in life

  Giovanni Papini

  Life, Breathing, Pleasure

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

  Ivan Panin

  Anniversary, Pain, Lions

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• Not long ago a friend asked me what was the greatest pleasure I got from spending my whole life as an actor. There have been so many that I had to think about that for a moment. Then I said, 'Like everyone else, I like to be with a happy crowd'.

  Buster Keaton

  Thinking, Long Ago, Actors

  Buster Keaton, Charles Samuels (2015). “My Wonderful World Of Slapstick”, p.369, Pickle Partners Publishing

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

  Colleen McCullough

  Art, Women, Reading

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• True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Fall, Genius, Lines

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield”, p.287

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