enjoyment quotes

• 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) [human/life/enjoyment]
• The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. (Walter Benjamin) [art/form/enjoyment]
• Sexual love is undoubtedly one of the chief things in life, and the union of mental and bodily satisfaction in the enjoyment of love is one of its culminating peaks. Apart from a few queer fanatics, all the world knows this and conducts its life accordingly; science alone is too delicate to admit it. (Sigmund Freud) [love/life/enjoyment/love]
• There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging highly improbable enjoyment, caricatures of the human esophagus in normal and impaired operation, and which hints implausibly at opportunities for antiseptic seduction as inherently trivial. This is a great mistake. The industrial system is profoundly dependent on commercial television and could not exist in its present form without it. (John Kenneth Galbraith) [scientists/think/enjoyment/human]
• Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. (Samuel Johnson) [life/civilization & progress/enjoyment/enjoyment]
• Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums. (Samuel Johnson) [enjoyment/destroy/envy/human]
• Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment. There is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [thing/enjoyment/share]
• Not enjoyment, and not sorrow is our destined way, but to act that each tomorrow may find us further than today. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [enjoyment/sorrow/find]
• Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously! (Friedrich Nietzsche) [enjoyment/life]
• The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to liver dangerously. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [enjoyment/life]
• Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment. ( Novalis) [enjoyment]
• Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment. (Thomas Otway) [more/enjoyment]
• Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. (Cesare Pavese) [life/pain/enjoyment/love]
• For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison. (Theodore Roosevelt) [interest/enjoyment]
• I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) [enjoyment]
• 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 attempting. In like manner I made the most of my enjoyment s: and through I do not cast my cares away, I pack them in as little compass as I can, and carry them as conveniently as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others. (Robert Southey) [look/more/enjoyment]
• Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution --such call I good books. (Henry David Thoreau) [books/enjoyment/books]
• I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers. (George Washington) [enjoyment/influence/government/trust]
• Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. (Alfred North Whitehead) [art/experience/enjoyment/recognition]
• Music is what I love and it's what I feel and it's in me and to know that I can do something that I enjoy and hopefully bring some enjoyment to other people through what I do is an incrediable felling and I am just really thankfull for it. (Mariah Carey) [music/love/enjoyment/people]
• “Lord of the Rings was just so much enjoyment. It was over about the space of a year that I was filming. It's one of the most enjoyable things I've ever done, so emotional.” (Sean Bean) [enjoyment]
• I think my showbiz side must have come out, the enjoyment of entertaining, because the cakes got increasingly wild and funny until many years later when a friend suggested I put them all into a book. That became a bestseller and eventually cake-making stopped being a hobby and became a business. (Jane Asher) [think/enjoyment/wild/being]
• My family is a part of my life and everything is all a mixture of enjoyment. (David Bowie) [family/life/enjoyment]
• “It can be tough to stay motivated to run and train. So when I have a comfortable shoe where I can feel cushion and I can feel like I'm walking on air, then there's so much more enjoyment in my training. The Air Max 360 does that for me.” (Maria Sharapova) [more/enjoyment/training]
• What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile. (Jack Kevorkian) [enjoyment/contempt/smile]
• Cartoons have always been an enjoyment to me... a relaxation... I get my ideas from everyday events. (Matthew Ashford) [cartoons/enjoyment/]

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