Some of my greatest pleasures have come from finding ways to overcome obstacles. — John Wooden Copy Share Image
Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains. — Democritus Copy Share Image
“Proof seduces them. One of the greatest pleasures of the human race is thinking.” — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
A Relaxing Peaceful Evening at Home... Is one of Life's Greatest Pleasures... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being in a marriage and having children is the greatest pleasure, but it is certainly not the easiest pleasure. It is not… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
There's something so beautiful in coming on one's very inmost thoughts in another. In one way it is one of the greatest… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
For some obscure reason, some authorities seem bent on making the drinking of wine a ritual more complicated than chess. They have… — Craig Claiborne Copy Share Image
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I consider myself extremely lucky to have been born and raised in London, and to have had on my doorstep this most… — Jean Plaidy Copy Share Image
God doth not govern the world only by his will as an absolute monarch, but by his wisdom and goodness as a… — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
One of my greatest pleasures in life is promising myself I will not drink, or smoke, or take coke, or do heroin,… — Amanda Filipacchi Copy Share Image
I thank heaven I have often had it in my power to give help and relief, and this is still my greatest… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Our greatest pleasure, surely, is in fragments, just as we derive the most pleasure from life if we regard it as a… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The single greatest pleasure that I have in doing ('Bizarre Foods') is when I meet families with 6, 7, 8-year-olds, or teenagers,… — Andrew Zimmern Copy Share Image
One of the greatest pleasures I get from my measly professional career is confusing people. "Wait - he beats women and seems… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
In the end, to ski is to travel fast and free – free over untouched snow country. To be bound to one… — Hans Gmoser Copy Share Image
We often tend to think that the executive wishes to maintain standard, wishes to reach a certain quality of production, and that… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
I'm not much of a correspondent. My letters are not only uninteresting but sparse. I'm glad I don?t have to write for… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
What I so like about Poussin and Cezanne is their sense of organization. Ilike the way in which they develop space and… — Ian Hornak Copy Share Image
One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food — Edna Lewis Copy Share Image
Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
We were created for meaningful work, and one of life's greatest pleasures is the satisfaction of a job well done. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams? — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures. — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
I am blessed beyond the realms of blessedness, and easily the greatest pleasure is giving it away — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
Throwing yourself into a job you enjoy is one of the life's greatest pleasures! — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
One of my greatest pleasures is being on the farmland that's been in the family since 1833. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The greatest pleasures of love are inseparable from its greatest pains: Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of… — Ivan Panin Copy Share Image
True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Playing sports has always been my greatest pleasure. I don't smoke, I hardly drink alcohol. Sports helped get me into the presidential… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees The greatest pleasure in life… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
One of the greatest pleasures of working on shows is that I enjoy watching the actors - who are all younger than… — Kelly Bishop Copy Share Image
I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
