Best Enjoyment Quotes
741 Enjoyment quotes by 557 unique authors
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I am not in favor of caste, nor separation of the brotherhood of mankind, and would as willingly live among white men as Black, if…
— Martin Delany
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The best enjoyment is half disappointment to what we intend or would have in this world.
— Gamaliel Bailey
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The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.
— Samuel Johnson
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Golf is the only game where the worst player gets the best of it. He obtains more out of it as regards both exercise and…
— David Lloyd George
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Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
— Thomas Otway
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Working in the garden gives me something beyond the enjoyment of the senses. It gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.
— Ruth Stout
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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same…
— Denis Diderot
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In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own life, whether for…
— Saint Augustine
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The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will…
— Mark Twain
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Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for…
— Douglas William Jerrold
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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…
— Thomas Traherne
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I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they might look bigger and more…
— Robert Southey
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He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.
— C.S. Lewis
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As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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Enjoyment always has a spoiling, otherwise it cannot be so.
— John Donne
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We dread life's termination as the close, not of enjoyment, but of hope.
— William Hazlitt
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It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Their demeanor is invariably morose, sullen, clownish and repulsive. I should think there is not, on the face of the earth, a people so entirely…
— Charles Dickens
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Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with…
— Joseph Addison
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He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day...needs to reorganize his life
— George Matthew Adams
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The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets…
— Mark Twain
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Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
— Samuel Johnson
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The pleasures arising from a right understanding of the divine testimonies are of the most delightful order; earthly enjoyments are utterly contemptible if compared with…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Moderation is the key to lasting enjoyment.
— Hosea Ballou
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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…
— Simon Newcomb
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