Quotations on Zest

Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.

~ Elbert Hubbard

Nothing else matters much - not wealth, nor learning, nor even health - without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.

~ Harry Emerson Fosdick

Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.

~ Christian Dior