Quotes About Enjoyment

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

everything tastes better in a margarita glass.

The crucial challenge is to learn how to read critically, analyze data, and formulate ideas—and most of all to enjoy the intellectual adventure enough to be able to do them easily and often.

Food is the supremest of pleasures.

Happiness? Do not make me laugh. The rich are not happy. I have yet to meet a single really rich happy man or woman—and I have met many rich people. The demands from others to share their wealth become so tiresome, and so insistent, they nearly always decide they must insulate themselves. Insulation breeds paranoia and arrogance. And loneliness. And rage that you have only so many years left to enjoy rolling in the sand you have piled up.

We would mull over the ills of Italy and the ills of the world, and conclude at the end that everyone's crazy so what's the use, let's go have some lunch and a little wine.

Don't be afraid of cooking, as your ingredients will know and misbehave. Enjoy your cooking and the food will behave; moreover it will pass your pleasure on to those who eat it.

Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.

Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.

There is not a good or a bad cuisine, just the one you like the best.

It doesn't make much difference what you study, as long as you don't like it.

A pint of plain is your only man.

Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

No book's too old for anybody who is able to enjoy it, and none too young, either, for that matter. Let her read what she likes.

May suitable doses of guaranteed sensual pleasure and slow, long-lasting enjoyment preserve us from the contagion of the multitude who mistake frenzy for efficiency.

Man can only derive life and enjoyment from a perpetual search and appropriation; that is, from a perpetual application of his faculties to objects, or from labor. This is the origin of property. But also he may live and enjoy, by seizing and appropriating the productions of the faculties of his fellow men. This is the origin of plunder.

L'injonction capitaliste (tout ce qui est agréable est obligatoire) est aussi stupide que la culpabilité chrétienne (tout ce qui est agréable est interdit).

El mandato capitalista (todo lo que es placentero es obligatorio) es igual de estúpido que la culpabilidad cristiana (todo lo que es placentero está prohibido).

Die zur Zeit angemessenste Geisteshaltung ist ein apokalyptischer Hedonismus: Da wir mit Bestimmtheit wissen, dass uns der Himmel auf den Kopf fallen wird, besteht die gesündeste Reaktion darin, das Leben auf der Stelle zu genießen.

Cuán extraño es que en esos principios de la vida donde se nos concede un poco de felicidad, ninguna voz nos advierta: «Por muchos años que vivas, no tendrás otra alegría en el mundo que la de aquellas horas. Saboréalas hasta las heces, porque después de esto no quedará nada para ti. Esta primera fuente que has hallado es también la última. Calma tu sed de una vez para siempre; no beberás nunca más»!

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.

I almost always do things that I like, in some form or fashion. Every once in awhile that means that I don't think the script is any good and I don't have any trust in the people, but the film is shooting in Sri Lanka, or somewhere like that, so I'm going.

pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.

Life is a waste of time, and time is a waste of life. Get wasted all the time, and you'll have the time of your life!