Quotes
Quotes about Enjoyment
All government,--indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act,--is founded on compromise and barter.
The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
Variety is the mother of Enjoyment.
You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased with them, or too grasping to care for what you can not turn to other account than mere delight.
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.
To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Mental pleasure are never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.
Though you may think yourself ever so dull and incapable of sublime attainments, yet by prayer the possession and enjoyment of God is easily obtained; for He is more desirous to give Himself to us than we can be to receive Him.
It is no hard matter to adhere to God while you are in the enjoyment of His comforts and consolations; but if you would prove your fidelity to Him, you must be willing to follow Him through the paths of dryness and desertion. The truth of a friend is not known while he is receiving favours and benefits from us; but if he remain faithful to us when we treat him with coldness and neglect, it will be a proof of the sincerity of his attachment.
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Alas! when duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.
I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described. [Fr., Je l'ai toujours dit et senti, la veritable jouissance ne se decrit point.]
You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased by them, or too grasping to care for what you cannot turn to other account than mere delight.
A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment. [Lat., Res severa est verum gaudium.]
Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding.
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety.".
The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.
Of all the world's enjoyments That ever valued were, There's none of our employments With fishing can compare. - Thomas Durfee (or D'Urfey),
A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.
