“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Democracy is not the end product, but the means to the end, which is the enjoyment of human rights by all. — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
Working in the garden gives me something beyond the enjoyment of the senses. It gives me a profound feeling of inner peace. — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most valuable thing he taught me (his father) was that there is no contradiction between devotion to work and enjoyment… — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share Image
I have never found, in anything outside of the four walls of my study, an enjoyment equal to sitting at my writing… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Daisy had known the novel was silly even as she had read it, but that had not detracted one bit from her… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what… — Jerry Gillies Copy Share Image
“The pleasures of being a novelist are many. But the greatest by far is the manner in which I live through my… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Education has no more serious responsibility than the making of adequate provision for enjoyment of recreative leisure not only for the sake… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Contentment, then, is the product of a heart resting in God. It is the soul’s enjoyment of that peace that passes all… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
Everyone in the full enjoyment of all the blessings of his life, in his normal condition, feels some individual responsibility forthe poverty… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Christians do not practically remember that while we are saved by grace, altogether by grace, so that in the matter of salvation… — George Muller Copy Share Image
Give up all desire for enjoyment in earth or heaven. Control the organs of the senses and control the mind. Bear every… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There are several other sources of enjoyment in a long voyage, which are of a more reasonable nature. The map of the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The audience is the most revered member of the theater. Without an audience, there is no theater. Everything done is ultimately for… — Viola Spolin Copy Share Image
Dreams burst like bubbles in the wind. But change takes time.When people fall in love and lose the overwhelming desire for it… — Marianne Fredriksson Copy Share Image
Shigure: JUST LISTEN TO ME FOR A SECOND, KYO! Kyo: SHUT UP! I HATE THIS! DO YOU REALLY GET THAT MUCH ENJOYMENT… — Natsuki Takaya Copy Share Image
Because we haven’t been taught to appreciate and love ourselves in this way, we don’t feel like we deserve self-care and pleasure.… — Jessica Ortner Copy Share Image
Your constitution guarantees to every citizen, even the humblest, the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property. It promises to all, religious freedom,… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
I wanted to experience both. I wanted worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. I wanted what the Greeks called kalos kai agathos, the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Oh yes," said Jana. "You want the birdbath." She let him down onto the rim of the birdbath, then watched as he… — Betsy Woodman Copy Share Image
If the Latter-day Saints will walk up to their privileges, and exercise faith in the name of Jesus Christ, and live in… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
How glorious, then, is the prospect, the reverse of all the past, which is now opening upon us, and upon the world.… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The millions who watch 'Downton Abbey' do so neither relating to the Granthams nor hating them. It's an amused enjoyment of spectacle. — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I note at the age of ten a fully developed ability not quite to enjoy myself, a capacity I have retained intact… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Yes, we did produce a near perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Death to a good man is his release from the imprisonment of this world, and his departure to the enjoyments of another… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is vain to speak of approaching judgment when finding our place, our portion, and our enjoyment in the very scene which… — Charles Henry Mackintosh Copy Share Image
“What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Sports and sex and movies are not inherently bad - But for you they're addictions, not enjoyments. You use them to distract… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
The painter celebrates life where he finds it. His morality is the morality of enjoyment, of the continuous development of his own… — Patrick Swift Copy Share Image