Enjoyment Quotes

No one in this world needs a mink coat but a mink.

Anonymous

One's first book kiss home run is always the best.

Clifton Fadiman

Let us have Wine and Women Mirth and Laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after.

1. If your stomach disputes you lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. 2. Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move. 3. Go very lightly on the vices such as carrying on in society. The social ramble ain't restful.

Love and do what you like.

Every good thing that comes is accompanied by trouble.

Maxwell Perkins

The physically fit can enjoy their vices.

The superfluous is very necessary.

Voltaire

There are three ingredients in the good life learning earning and yearning.

Christopher Morley

A sense of wrongdoing is an enhancement of pleasure.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

From desire I plunge to its fulfilment where I long once more for desire.

Goethe

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

Luxury is more deadly than any foe.

Juvenal

Danger and delight grow on one stalk .

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

G.K. Chesterton

Pleasure for an hour a bottle of wine pleasure for a year marriage pleasure for a lifetime a garden.

The test of pleasure is the memory it leaves behind. (Die Probe Eines Genusses ist Seine Erinnerung.)

Jean Paul Richter

The true spirit of delight the exultation the sense of being more than Man which is the touchstone of the highest excellence is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

Bertrand Russell

We must like what we have when we don't have what we like.

Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

What the mass media offer is not popular art but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food forgotten and replaced by a new dish.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

To be able to use leisure intelligently will be the last product of an intelligent civilization.

Bertrand Russell

There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want and after that to enjoy it.

Logan Pearsall Smith

All the great pleasures in life are silent.

Georges Clémenceau

The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence.

Danger and delight grow on one stalk.

English Proverb

Every luxury must be paid for and everything is a luxury starting with being in the world.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

Henry David Thoreau

To really enjoy the better things in life one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

If you resolve to give up smoking drinking and loving you don't actually live longer it just seems longer.

A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.

J. K. Galbraith

A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity.

After pleasant scratching comes unpleasant smarting.

Don't let yesterday’s storm keep you from enjoying today's sunshine.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Boredom is the price one pays for not enjoying everything.

Its been enough enjoying now, let's begin achieving.

The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.

Enjoy this moment because it may not come again.

Osho

Beauty is what we have seen and what we are going to see in the future. It is the totality of physical, emotional and biological structures we have created within generations intentionally or unintentionally for our enjoyment and satisfaction. We consider ourselves beautiful, because we have seen it and imagine for thousands of years. If we had five feet, nine eyes and twenty fingers we still were beautiful.

Opulence and fame will shorten your life, ask for long life, and you'll enjoy the former in small quantities, for it is a substitute.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Enjoy life, even in the most chaotic, hectic moments. Take time to breathe. Take time to consider what is important versus what is rubbish. Those are the times where slowing down is healthiest. Those are the times where it really counts. And, if you come across an impossible situation, crying will not help. Open your mouth, but instead of sobs and wails, give out a little chuckle. It’ll make all the difference in your attitude and therefore, in your situation.

Leigh Hershkovich

I am fascinated at how much time we spend doing things that we don’t enjoy.

But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.

If you look accurately into your life , it is full of fun and enjoyment.

There is a strong disposition in youth, from which some individuals never escape, to suppose that everyone else is having a more enjoyable time than we are ourselves;

Forget the beauty, comfort, love and enjoyment. You must to be enough tough on yourself to be strong on others.

I work hard, and I do good, and I’m going to enjoy myself. I’m not going to let you restrict me.

But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup.

Kakuzō Okakura

There are many stories and accounts about the winners of lotteries whoare jubilant when they win, but whose lives descend into a nightmareafter acquiring that unearned money. (No challenge, no skill.) Thelottery looks like "the answer" to people because they associate moneywith pleasure. But the true enjoyment of money comes in part from theearning of it, which involves skill and challenge.Watching television is usually done for pleasure. That's why so fewpeople can remember (or make use of) any of the 30 hours of televisionthey have watched in the past week.

Life's a climb. But the view is great.

Once again discovered: Do what you do because you enjoy. If expect others to give credit or honor your work, you are due for disappointment

Phillip Gary Smith

Guilt doesn’t stop you from doing something. It just stops you from enjoying it.

I want a simple, ordinary life . . . like humans enjoy.

Deborah Harkness

Lets stop worrying about future and lets start enjoying the present.

People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course, they are charitable. They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion—these are the two things that govern us. And yet—

Oh yes," said Jana. "You want the birdbath." She let him down onto the rim of the birdbath, then watched as he dipped his head, lowered his chest into the water, and raised it. Having finished his bath, he did a dance of sheer joy, flapping his wings and shaking off the water in a circle of drops. "He enjoys life," said a voice. Mr. Powell the optometrist, a closed umbrella in hand, was letting his two dachshunds chase each other around the park. "As do your dogs," said Jana. "Yes," said Mr. Powell,"they have fun in a simpler and more joyous way than most humans do. Their pleasures seem more reliable. All you have to do is say the word 'walk' and they're wiggling from head to toe....

He wondered why he wasn't as in love with her as he was with...Hector had only shared enjoyment with (her)...he shared everything, enjoyment and sorrow...but for some time now they'd shared too much frustration, boredom and fatigue.

François Lelord

We shall enjoy itAs for him who findsfault, may sillinessand sorrow take him!

Sappho

Heterosexuality is the enjoyment with fear, the pleasure with responsibility and the lust with concerns.

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