The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Greediness of getting more deprives... the enjoyment of what it had got. — Thomas Sprat Copy Share Image
But that's just the aim of civilization - to make everything a source of enjoyment. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I think cigars are just a tremendous addition to the enjoyment of life. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“I discovered there was an endless source of robust enjoyment in trifling with psychiatrists.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Getting older is a struggle. I always feel that just under the surface of acceptance and enjoyment of the ageing process is… — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
Games give you a chance to excel, and if you're playing in good company you don't even mind if you lose because… — Gary Gygax Copy Share Image
The cream of enjoyment in this life is always impromptu. The chance walk; the unexpected visit; the unpremeditated journey; the unsought conversation… — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
“Thankfulness acknowledges that we can’t own anything, but we can experience everything. And just knowing that makes me thankful.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The debris of civilization litters the landscapes and spoils the beaches. Conservation's concerns now is not only for man's enjoyment-but for man's… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
No, no, I'm a lowbrow. I read [Dostoevsky] more out of obligation than enjoyment. For enjoyment, for me, it's a beer and… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy' is not included in the plan of Creation.' .… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige,… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
I'm always very fearful when academics get ahold of comedy. Comedy is such a clear thing - people laugh, or they don't… — Lorne Michaels Copy Share Image
Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is no greater enjoyment than that of sharing something. Have you given something to somebody? That's why people enjoy giving gifts… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for older equipment and ways of recording, but you can't escape the fact that it's all going to be… — Beck Copy Share Image
We have all experienced times when, instead of being buffeted by anonymous forces, we do feel in control of our actions, masters… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Combining the lack of emotional literacy they may be imbued with, with the fact that if you're black you're not supposed to… — John Amaechi Copy Share Image
“[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova] In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of socialism, fate gave… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The attainment of knowledge is the high and exclusive attribute of man, among the numberless myriads of animated beings, inhabitants of the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas it was its continuance which should have taught us its value.… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
“I enjoyed this scene; and yet my enjoyment was embittered both by the memory of the past, and the anticipation of the… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image