Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.
—Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) Italian Writer, Poet
What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That’s not a smile.
—Jack Kevorkian (1928–2011) American Pathologist, Euthanasia Activist
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719) English Essayist, Poet, Playwright, Politician
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
—Bertrand A. Russell (1872–1970) British Philosopher, Mathematician, Social Critic
If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.
—Buddhist Teaching
You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.
—Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American Self-Help Author
Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle.
—Mason Cooley (1927–2002) American Aphorist
Let us not be too prodigal when we are young, nor too parsimonious when we are old. Otherwise we shall fall into the common error of those, who, when they had the power to enjoy, had not the prudence to acquire; and when they had the prudence to acquire, had no longer the power to enjoy.
—Charles Caleb Colton (c.1780–1832) English Clergyman, Aphorist
The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.
—William Jennings Bryan (1860–1925) American Political leader, Diplomat, Politician
Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.
—Hugh Blair (1718–1800) Scottish Preacher, Scholar, Critic
Whatever advantage or enjoyment we snatch beyond the certain portion allotted us by nature, is like money spent before it is due, which at the time of regular payment will be missed and regretted.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
If you’re skilled, your wallet will be filled.
—Yiddish Proverb
You can’t let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.
—Dale Earnhardt (1951–2001) American Sportsperson
People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) American Head of State
The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
—Richard Bach (b.1936) American Novelist, Aviator
He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
—Samuel Butler
Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
—Anthony Trollope (1815–82) English Novelist
No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.
—Orison Swett Marden (1850–1924) American New Thought Writer, Physician, Entrepreneur
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than expectation.
—Owen Feltham (1602–1668) English Essayist
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in fame, unlimited in space, and infinite in duration. In the performance of its sacred offices, it fears no danger, spares no expense, looks in the volcano, dives into the ocean, perforates the earth, wings its flight into the skies, explores sea and land, contemplates the distant, examines the minute, comprehends the great, ascends to the sublime—no place too remote for its grasp, no height too exalted for its reach.
—DeWitt Clinton (1769–1828) American Politician
Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–64) American Novelist, Short Story Writer
He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not.
—Italian Proverb
A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.
—Walter Bagehot (1826–77) English Economist, Journalist
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we’ve established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
—Earl Nightingale (1921–89) American Motivational Speaker, Author
When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
—William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–63) English Novelist
The joy of life consists in the exercise of one’s energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
—Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) English Occultist, Mystic, Magician
The New England conscience doesn’t keep you from doing what you shouldn’t—it just keeps you from enjoying it.
—Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902–91) Polish-born American Children’s Books Writer, Novelist, Short Story Writer
Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
—Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American Author, Journalist, Attorney, Lecturer
I have always said and felt that true enjoyment cannot be described.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78) Swiss-born French Philosopher
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