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Quotes About Enjoyment

Only the man who could look into the future without worry could thoroughly enjoy the present.
~ Stefan Zweig
Nur wer sorglos in die Zukunft blicken konnte, genoß mit gutem Gefühl die Gegenwart.
~ Stefan Zweig
Life is a luxury, isn't it? there's no use in it--but how delightful!
~ Stella Benson
But Julia thought it would be a much better idea if they went to see Mr Dan Langham in 'On Your Toes!' at the New Hippodrome, so they went there instead and had a nice time instead of a nasty one.
~ Stella Gibbons
Twice, in half an hour, Hetty had held up Miss Barlow's plans, and prevented her from moving as quickly as possible on to the next pleasure. Miss Barlow liked her life to be a steady movement towards pleasure. While she was having one, she was thinking about the next and what she should wear while she had that.
~ Stella Gibbons
Only a person with a candid mind, who is usually bored by intrigues, can appreciate the full fun of an intrigue when they begin to manage one for the first time. If there are several intrigues and there is a certain danger of their getting mixed up and spoiling each other, the enjoyment is even keener.
~ Stella Gibbons
Unless everything is tidy and pleasant and comfortable all about one, people cannot even begin to enjoy life. I cannot endure messes.
~ Stella Gibbons
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
~ Stendhal
I liked that they didn't ask me about anything other than here and now, because here and now was working for me. I liked the intense, fun-loving energy around me, the feeling of being part of a group. Even more, I liked being a stranger to the new friends I was making in this new world.
~ Steph Davis
It is important for knitters to know two things about frogging: that cats are capable of this knitting action, and even seem to enjoy it and seek opportunities to do it; and that foul language is a normal, healthy accompaniment to frogging, whether it is you or the cat that accomplished the task.
~ Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
A man without pleasure is a man without any idea what life is about
~ Michael Grant, BZRK
The soul enjoys silence and peace, not by many reasonings, but by simply contemplating the truth.
~ Peter of Alcantara
Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth.
~ Stephen Baldwin
In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
~ Anatole France
I think it's a universal truth that most chefs I know are happiest eating simple, unadorned good things.
~ Anthony Bourdain
I enjoy reality as much as the next man. It's just that in my case, fortunately, reality includes a good stiff belt every now and then.
~ David Niven
We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The truth is my development I hope is the same way as everything, which is, I succeed some, I fail some, and I keep slugging away at it. I really enjoy it. It's fun.
~ George Clooney
The truth is that men can have several sorts of pleasure. The true pleasure is the one for which they abandon the other.
~ Marcel Proust
Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is pleased. Beauty is harder to analyze than truth.
~ Mortimer Adler
Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.
~ Tony Blair
Selfishness, eager for a heaven of enjoyment, is quite a different thing in the soul from love and purity and truth, yearning together for what is their natural element.
~ William Mountford
People those enjoy life never thought about death and those thought about death never enjoy life.
~ Sammy Toora
Fun is never gone because life is fun.
~ Debasish Mridha