Quotes of: Greatest-pleasure Keyword

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

William Dean Howells

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

Lao Tzu

One's greatest happiness is also his greatest weakness.

Joe Mari Fadrigalan

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

Pierre Bonnard

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

Alan W. Watts

There is work, and there is pleasure; acting is pleasure.

Sofia Vassilieva

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.

Francis Hutcheson

Men’s greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women’s greatest strength is their facade of weakness.

The Myth of Male Power

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

David Attenborough

I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure. The kind of pleasure you can get from reading is like no other in the world.

Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books

She says it is a school for bluestockings which, according to her, is really only a fashionable way of saying it is a school for ugly girls who cannot find suitable husbands. To tease her, for I believe it is one of his greatest pleasures in this lif...

The BlueStocking Girl

Childhood is the time of man's greatest content. 'Tis during these years of innocent pleasure that the little ones are most free from care. [...] Their joy is in being alive, and they do not stop to think. In after-years the doom of mankind overtakes...

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

I believe the greatest pleasure in writing is in the progressive artistry of it. Each project is an attempt to do better than before - to produce a worthy work of art - something having meaning not only for the writer but also for those who may share...

Love

But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.

Candide

Once you’re on the pleasure express, it’s hard to get off and switch to another, slower service.

The Pleasure Express

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

Rene Descartes

Nights of pleasure are short.

Lebanese

No pleasure without pain.

Traditional

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend.

Lao Tzu

Conversation, to take another example, is one of the common pleasures of life, but not all conversation is pleasurable. The stutterer finds talking painful, and the listener is equally pained. Persons who are inhibited in expressing feeling are not g...

Pleasure

The best laid plans may not get you laid the way you planned.

Ten Commandments of Pleasure: Ten Commandments of Pleasure