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Quotes About Enjoyment

Rejoy has several meanings, the first two of which are somewhat noble, and more than somewhat boring. The third meaning, however, is probably the most applicable one for most people, as so many of us cannot seem to enjoy things unless we possess them. Which explains the existence of shopping malls. Remord
~ Ammon Shea
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.
~ Amos Oz
We finished off a small pie and when we got home I washed the tomato sauce out of her hair, which I had expected, but also out of her underwear, which I think must be the sign that you have really, really enjoyed your lunch.
~ Amy Bloom
he felt about a meal in a restaurant the way people feel about money and good health: always better to have it.
~ Amy Bloom
We're not here for a long time, we're here for a good time.
~ Amy Bloom
We're not here for a long time, we're here for a good time. You can imagine how often he said that.
~ Amy Bloom
Florence saw childhood as something fleeting to be enjoyed. I saw childhood as a training period, a time to build character and invest for future.
~ Amy Chua
On the occasions where we do have to participate, to do more than nothing, it is desirable to have a glass of wine to soften all the everything.
~ Amy Krouse Rosenthal
If it feels good, enjoy it. If it doesn't, adjust your position until it does.
~ Amy Lane
I know. But maybe that's what growing up gets you. You get better. You stop waiting for the bad stuff to happen and maybe enjoy the good, you know?
~ Amy Lane
It was like the time he'd driven a friend's MG in college—doable but not fun.
~ Amy Lane
I'm sure lovely girls such as yourselves need not worry about this"—Madame LaRoche begins, and I have a hunch we're about to be cautioned against something we enjoy
~ Amy McAuley
Cats groomed daily as kittens learn to expect and relish
~ Amy Shojai
I was a very solitary, introverted child who got punished by being sent to a dark room quite frequently. But you cannot imagine how much I enjoyed myself in that room, and how I would look forward to being punished, because it was there that I discovered the light of darkness.
~ Ana María Matute
Saturday is a day for the spa. RELAX, indulge, enjoy, and love yourself, too.
~ Ana Monnar
Oft am I by the Women told, Poor Anacreon, thou grow'st old, Look how thy hairs are falling all; Poor Anacreon how they fall. Whether I grow old or no, By th' Effects I do not know. This I know without being told, 'Tis time to Live, if I grow Old. 'Tis time short Pleasures now to take; Of little Life the best to make, And manage wisely the last Stake.
~ Anacreon
Thus, while I quaff the genial wine, I live mid transports quite divine.
~ Anacreon
Great Bacchus every trouble cures; Then drink as long as life endures. For, whilst we drain the rosy bowl, 'Tis all a sunshine of the soul!
~ Anacreon
Bring water, bring wine, boy! Bring flowering garlands to me! Yes, bring them, so that I may try a bout with love.
~ Anacreon
The most dangerous part of lending books lies in the returning. At such times, friendships hang by a thread. I look for agony, ecstasy, for tears, transfiguration, trembling hands, a broken voice - but what the borrower usually says is, "I enjoyed it." I enjoyed it - as if that were what books were for.
~ Anatole Broyard
Let us love the books which please us and cease to trouble ourselves about classifications and schools of literature.
~ Anatole France
A few days later we went to the opera together to watch my beloved Siegfried. It was a pleasure for me to listen to it beside the man who had become my hero.
~ Andre Maurois
What do two women friends usually do when they see each other? We talked, we watched television, we listened to music Sometimes we did nothing at all. It was a pleasure just to know the other one was there.
~ Andrea Camilleri