Enjoyment Quotes · Page 6

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.

— Agnes Repplier

“Kill your appetite and save for the future!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“Enjoy what you have. Forget what you haven't.”

— Laura Maude Picard

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

— Gerry Sikorski

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

— Miley Cyrus

A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity.

— Samuel Johnson

The end-purpose of all art is enjoyment!

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

— Samuel Johnson

“Fun pretends to be about enjoyment, but is merely about the attempt.”

— Terry Pratchett

It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying yourself when you aren't.

— E. Nesbit

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

— Leo Tolstoy

Cartoons have always been an enjoyment to me... a relaxation... I get my ideas from everyday events.

— Matthew Ashford

It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.

— Michel de Montaigne

Enjoyment of football is part of the social context, and I have lost my faith in this social context.

— Orhan Pamuk

We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast.

— Sigmund Freud

The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and, after these, the men and women who get immediate…

— Hugh Walpole

...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.

— Helen Keller

for true happiness, sane enjoyment, you must look to the country, not town. Only you want one true heart beside you with…

— Ellen Buckingham Mathews

Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.

— Robert Toombs

Enjoyment of life generally includes being socially connected, having fun, and feeling a sense of purpose.

— Mallika Chopra

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

— Anne Bronte

In spite of this trial, which takes all enjoyment from me, I can never the less, cry out, 'Lord, you fill me…

— Therese of Lisieux

Whatever enjoyment I might have had at the time would disappear overnight like snow melting on a warm roof.

— S.J. Watson

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

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

Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and…

— Paul Kurtz

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

Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige,…

— Alex Tabarrok

I pray that no child of mine would ever descend into such a place as a library. They are indeed most dangerous…

— Willy Russell

Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding…

— Mark Rylance

Racism is an attack on the very notion of the universality of human rights. It systematically denies certain people the enjoyment of…

— Irene Khan

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

“[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova] In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of socialism, fate gave…

— Leon Trotsky

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

Through the Holy Spirit comes our restoration to paradise, our ascension into the kingdom of heaven, our return to the adoption of…

— Saint Basil

The enjoyment of the choicest natural scenes in the country and the means of recreation connected with them is thus a monopoly,…

— Frederick Law Olmsted

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in…

— C. S. Lewis

It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We…

— Albert Einstein

“It is indisputable that the being whose capacities of enjoyment are low, has the greatest chance of having them fully satisfied; and…

— John Stuart Mill

I do not presume to explain how to paint, but only how to get enjoyment.

— Winston Churchill