Quotes About Enjoyment

Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted.

We often hear of bad weather, but in reality, no weather is bad. It is all delightful, though in different ways. Some weather may be bad for farmers or crops, but for man all kinds are good. Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating. As Ruskin says, "There is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."

Ruth Rendell, Jonathon Kellerman, Len Deighton . . . clever writers, all of them. No romance, or supernatural, or street-level cop novels here. Psychological mysteries. Suspense. Kellerman was even himself a psychologist. Quinn figured the readers of such books got their enjoyment out of trying to outwit the writers. Would Ida or her late husband be the sort to write critical Amazon

Amidst all the attention given to the sciences as to how they can lead to the cure of all diseases and daily problems of mankind, I believe that the biggest breakthrough will be the realization that the arts, which are considered "useless," will be recognized as the whole reason why we ever try to live longer or live more prosperously. The arts are the science of enjoying life.

The love of money as a possession—as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life—will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease.

I only wish I had drunk more champagne.

My only regret is that I have not drunk more champagne in my life.

The croissant was crisp and soft and flaky at the same time. Just biting it made you feel cared for.

Folded-over chips are preferable to flat chips—why is that? It's one of life's ten million mysteries.

sadness is nothing a little Veuve Clicquot can't fix.

She was conscious of being alive and being present: a clear night, a golden beach, good food.

Lust is great in the bedroom, but Like is better at breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Whereas once Marguerite had been obsessed with food- with heirloom tomatoes and lamb shanks and farmhouse cheeses, and fish still flopping on the counter, and eggs and chocolate and black truffles and foie gras and rare white nectarines- now the only thing that gave her genuine pleasure was reading.

only someone had been there to remind him that his life, someday, would be over and he should pay attention and enjoy while he could.

doesn't enjoy food that is aggressively healthy

There is always some happy and interesting thing happening, and I shall have two pleasures each time, my own enjoyment, and getting to tell you of them.

Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures.

The astute journalist had commented that Russians enjoy themselves without smiling, always taking their pleasure sadly.

Good food is also there to satisfy the senses.

Sentarse tranquilamente bajo la luz de una lámpara con un libro abierto entre las manos, y conversar íntimamente con los hombres de otras generaciones, es un placer que traspasa los límites de lo imaginable

Twill soon be over, and then we can all get good and thoroughly drunk.

Be cautious, please. I should hate to lose the pleasure of your conversation.

Darling, you're ridiculous. Drink.