The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure.

For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm…

— Plato

I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must…

— Lord Byron

“To give love to one who needs it is a far greater pleasure than to receive it.”

— Douglas Carlton Abrams

It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.

— Seneca the Younger

There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays…

— Sigmund Freud

The higher the joy is not the light, it's the reflection. The greater pleasure is not climbing up; it's handing down

— Bruce Feiler

The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

— Plato

Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.

— Juvenal

What can the Creator see with greater pleasure than a happy creature?

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

There is no greater pleasure in the world than riding a good horse.

— Muriel Wace

How can we expect our children to know and experience the joy of giving unless we teach them that the greater pleasure in life…

— James Cash Penney

“You are in touch with something infinitely greater than any pleasure, greater than any manifested thing.”

— Eckhart Tolle

It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure.

— Angela Carter