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Enjoyment Quotes by Baltasar Gracian
- You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession.
- We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure ended…
- Many of the things that bring delight should not be owned. They are more enjoyed if another's, than if yours; the first day they give…
More Enjoyment Quotes
- To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — Jane Austen
- Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world,… — Honore de Balzac
- There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases… — Zygmunt Bauman
- The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but… — Joseph Addison
- True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation… — Joseph Addison
- The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the… — Walter Benjamin
- Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth. — Giovanni Boccaccio
- Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly… — Daniel Boone
- The whole period has taught me that I enjoy being part of an ensemble rather than just a front man. Don't get… — Damon Albarn
- The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to… — William Jennings Bryan
- All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. — Edmund Burke
- A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation… — Fanny Burney