Enjoyment Quotes
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Our only idea was to get rid of the dross as soon as possible, but at the same time have as much pleasure and enjoyment as the country would afford. (Quote by - Kit Carson)
There are people who put their own dismal prejudices, their half-baked colonial chippiness and their enjoyment of the agreeable futilities of sport ahead of these terrible things. (Quote by - Simon Barnes)
Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world. (Quote by - Cesare Pavese)
Then to have Brett come along and follow in the footsteps, it's so gratifying. I get as much enjoyment out of watching Brett play as I did of entertaining people myself. (Quote by - Bobby Hull)
I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period of music, obviously. (Quote by - Warren Zevon)
I didn't want to stay until I had used up all the enjoyment because that's too long to stay anywhere. (Quote by - Darrell Royal)
For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond Higher design than to enjoy his state. (Quote by - John Milton)
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. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted. (Quote by - Alex Campbell)
The real thing is, you should be seeing these plays in the Theatre. That's what they were written for. That's where the enjoyment is. Studying them is no enjoyment whatsoever. (Quote by - Tony Randall)
After pleasant scratching comes unpleasant smarting. (Quote by - Danish proverb)
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate--that's my philosophy. (Quote by - Thornton Wilder)
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them. (Quote by - Kin Hubbard)
The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. (Quote by - Walter Benjamin)
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. (Quote by - George Santayana)
Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction. (Quote by - C. S. Lewis)
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)
Temper your Enjoyment with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety.". (Quote by - Francis Quarles)
Luxury is more deadly than any foe. (Quote by - Juvenal)
For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful. (Quote by - Randy West)
The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich. (Quote by - James Loeb)
A sense of wrongdoing is an enhancement of pleasure. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased by them, or too grasping to care for what you cannot turn to other account than mere delight. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. (Quote by - Logan Pearsall Smith)
If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer. (Quote by - Clement Freud)
Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted. (Quote by - Jean Paul Richter)
Leisure is being allowed to do nothing. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. (Quote by - Cesare Pavese)
There are three ingredients in the good life; learning, earning and yearning. (Quote by - Christopher Morley)
I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work. (Quote by - Muriel Spark)
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. (Quote by - Charles Kingsley)
I quit because I didn't feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game. (Quote by - Barry Sanders)
It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer. (Quote by - George Muller)
It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying yourself when you aren't. (Quote by - Edith Nesbit)
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment. (Quote by - Lucretius)
The ice does not in pain scream when in the sun he melts into stream nor does he in pain scream when he higher climbs into spiraling steam. (Quote by - Saiom Shriver)
From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire. (Quote by - Goethe)
Cartoons have always been an enjoyment to me... a relaxation... I get my ideas from everyday events. (Quote by - Matthew Ashford)
But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity. (Quote by - Niklaus Wirth)
A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment. (Quote by - Seneca)
Habit converts luxurious Enjoyment into dull and daily necessities. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
All the great pleasures in life are silent. (Quote by - Georges Clemenceau)
The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment. (Quote by - William Jennings Bryan)
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy. (Quote by - Malcolm S. Forbes)
It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I'd rather not know. (Quote by - Linda Ronstadt)
There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death. (Quote by - Soren Kierkegaard)
The Gen. Commanding, takes this means of informing the people that he has not come among them to disturb them in the enjoyment of their rights, either of person or property. (Quote by - John H. Morgan)
Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing. (Quote by - Matt Biondi)
One's first book, kiss, home run is always the best. (Quote by - Clifton Fadiman)
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. (Quote by - Carl Friedrich Gauss)
Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment. (Quote by - Arnold Palmer)
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do. (Quote by - James M. Barrie)
We must like what we have when we don't have what we like. (Quote by - Roger de Bussy-Rabutin)
I'm not sure if I'm looking forward to facing Brett Lee again. He bowls at 95mph so enjoyment is not the word I would use. (Quote by - Andrew Flintoff)
But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning. (Quote by - Anna Neagle)
Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding. (Quote by - Lyman Bryson)
And I used to assemble the family to hear because I thought that they were so good that even from the point of view of enjoyment people shouldn't miss them, and I got every word of his that I could, and I could see by hard argument there was only the one way for it. (Quote by - Ruth Pitter)
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. (Quote by - Paul Goodman)
The cinema is an institution nowadays, with its roots sunk deep in the hearts of the millions of people who find enjoyment and entertainment in going to the pictures. (Quote by - Ivor Novello)
A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning. (Quote by - Chuck Noll)
If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased. (Quote by - Katharine Hepburn)
Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part. (Quote by - Claude Debussy)
As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow. (Quote by - Joseph Butler)
Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth. (Quote by - Giovanni Boccaccio)
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening. (Quote by - Alexander Woollcott)
The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment. (Quote by - Ivor Novello)
The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man. (Quote by - Hugh Blair)
To be able to use leisure intelligently will be the last product of an intelligent civilization. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence. (Quote by - Henry Chester)
The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal. (Quote by - Aleister Crowley)
The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united. (Quote by - Wilhelm von Humboldt)
But part of the enjoyment I take in it is finding the most efficient way to do it, which doesn't mean the corrections aren't made. I like to have a feeling of the whole task before I start, even if it changes. (Quote by - Bruce Nauman)
Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. (Quote by - Horace Mann)
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
I do not let a bad score ruin my enjoyment for golf. (Quote by - Darrell Royal)
With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches. (Quote by - Adam Smith)
Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners. (Quote by - Robert Morgan)
A really interesting life has embraced everything from the most magnificent exultation to the depths of tragedy. I would say that's tremendous experience - But I wouldn't say enjoyment is an accurate summary of it! (Quote by - Marcia Davenport)
It's learning how to negotiate to keep both sides happy - whether it's for a multi-million dollar contract or just which show to watch on TV, that determines the quality and enjoyment of our lives. (Quote by - Leigh Steinberg)
Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense. (Quote by - William Penn)
The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction. (Quote by - Mortimer Adler)
Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression. (Quote by - Marshall McLuhan)
I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it? (Quote by - John Ruskin
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade. (Quote by - Anthony Trollope)
It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
The whole period has taught me that I enjoy being part of an ensemble rather than just a front man. Don't get me wrong - I enjoy that too, but I get more enjoyment out of really listening to everyone. (Quote by - Damon Albarn)
Lord of the Rings was just so much enjoyment. It was over about the space of a year that I was filming. It's one of the most enjoyable things I've ever done, so emotional. (Quote by - Sean Bean)
To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. (Quote by - Jane Austen)
Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best. (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration. (Quote by - DeWitt Clinton)
To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than. (Quote by - Oscar Homolka)
My family is a part of my life and everything is all a mixture of enjoyment. (Quote by - Davy Jones)
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters. (Quote by - Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere)
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation. (Quote by - Francois Fenelon)
Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse. (Quote by - Samuel Alexander)
A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment. (Quote by - Frances Burney)
Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys. (Quote by - Honore de Balzac)
The friends whom I have are invaluable, and although not numerous they are sufficient for my enjoyment; and the texture of my own mind renders me very indifferent to the rest of the world. (Quote by - George Combe)
I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment. (Quote by - Maria Mitchell)
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment. (Quote by - Thomas Otway)
My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people. (Quote by - Richard Rogers)
He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love. (Quote by - Johann Kaspar Lavater)
Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something. (Quote by - Mark Rylance)
Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours. (Quote by - Robert Toombs)
I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described. (Quote by - Jean Jacques Rousseau)
What it all boils down to for me is having the enthusiasm to do something for enjoyment and being stimulated by what's around you. That's what photography does for me. (Quote by - Graeme Le Saux)
As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity. (Quote by - Simon Newcomb)
It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment. (Quote by - Samuel Alexander)
Let us have Wine and Women, Mirth and Laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition. (Quote by - James Nasmyth)
I'd rather see you drink a glass of wine than a glass of milk. So many people drink Coca-Cola and all these soft drinks with sugar. Some of these drinks have 8 or 9 teaspoons of sugar in them What's the good of living if you can't have the things that give a little enjoyment? (Quote by - Jack LaLanne)
Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels. (Quote by - Thomas Traherne)
It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment! (Quote by - Max Beckmann)
A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment. (Quote by - Walter Bagehot)
What makes it all worthwhile is we just play for the sheer enjoyment of entertaining people and... make our families and the team we played on and the people watching, proud of what we did. (Quote by - Bobby Hull)
Though throned in highest bliss Equal to God, and equally enjoying God-like fruition. (Quote by - John Milton)
A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper enjoyment of their resources; we are also denying the world the example of a free society enjoying its freedom to the fullest. (Quote by - J. William Fulbright)
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment. (Quote by - Novalis)
How could I, blest with thee, long nights employ; And how with the longest day enjoy! (Quote by - Albius Tibullus)
Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle. (Quote by - Mason Cooley)
Maybe it's because I'm getting older, I'm finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simple act of tasting a glass of wine is its own event. You're not downing a glass of wine in the midst of doing something else. (Quote by - David Hyde Pierce)
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment. (Quote by - Soren Kierkegaard)
People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. So having fun isn't an outrageous idea at all. It's a very sensible one. (Quote by - John Sculley)
If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives. (Quote by - David Riesman)
The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something. (Quote by - Chauncey Depew)
Pleasure for an hour, a bottle of wine; pleasure for a year, marriage; pleasure for a lifetime, a garden. (Quote by - Chinese saying)
I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment. (Quote by - David Rockefeller)
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire. (Quote by - Epictetus)
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating. (Quote by - Denis Waitley)
The physically fit can enjoy their vices. (Quote by - Lloyd Percival)
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. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
Every good thing that comes is accompanied by trouble. (Quote by - Maxwell Perkins)
The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right. (Quote by - Ezra Stiles)
Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach into myself and accept myself. (Quote by - Michael Bolton)
Then I came in twice a week - for my own enjoyment as well as to be a guide. And then we started to apply some of the splinters of the ideas back into the piece. (Quote by - Siobhan Davies)
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find? (Quote by - John Milton)
The test of pleasure is the memory it leaves behind. (Quote by - Jean Paul Richter)
Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best. (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)
The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future. (Quote by - Norman O. Brown)
Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections. (Quote by - Joseph Butler)
Art thou a type of beauty, or of power, Of sweet enjoyment, or disastrous sin? (Quote by - Sir Aubrey De Vere)
A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions. (Quote by - J. K. Galbraith)
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. (Quote by - W. H. Auden)
If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap. (Quote by - Glen Buck)
What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile. (Quote by - Jack Kevorkian)
The lesson adults can learn here is that the world is filled with things for our enjoyment. (Quote by - Allen Klein)
