Quotes About Enjoyment

Zevk, okuma ve rahatl?k yeterliydi Nicholai için. (...) EÄŸlence gibi bir uyuÅŸturucu maddeye de gereksinim duymuyordu.

It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating ...

Sir, be proud: today you came close to a happy death; and behave in the future with the same nonchalance, knowing that the soul dies with the body. Go then to death after having savored life. We are animals among animals, all children of matter, save that we are the more disarmed. But since, unlike animals, we know we must die, let us prepare for that moment by enjoying the life that has been given us by chance and for chance.

not everything can be a symbol. A symbol has to be textually produced; it requires a specific semiotic strategy. [...] . A symbolic strategy can produce aesthetic enjoyment, but it is first of all semiotic machinery.

Emperor Trajan he read an inscription from those same ancient days and in that same spirit: "To hunt, to bathe, to play, to laugh, that is to live.

Whither will suffering lead me? To nothingness; but I shall have suffered. Whither will enjoyment lead me? To nothingness; but I shall have enjoyed myself.

Did I exist before my birth? No. Shall I exist after death? No. What am I? A little dust collected in an organism. What am I to do on this earth? The choice rests with me: suffer or enjoy. Whither will suffering lead me? To nothingness; but I shall have suffered. Whither will enjoyment lead me? To nothingness; but I shall have enjoyed myself. My choice is made. One must eat or be eaten. I shall eat. It is better to be the tooth than the grass.

What am I to do on this earth? The choice rests with me: suffer or enjoy. Whither will suffering lead me? To nothingness; but I shall have suffered. Whither will enjoyment lead me? To nothingness; but I will have enjoyed myself.

From the picnic basket, she withdrew a crusty baguette, a wedge of rich, double-cream cheese, two apples, some slices of paper-thin Bayonne ham, and a bottle of Bollinger '36.

I'll drink to that," Nina said. "You'll drink to anything." "Indeed I will. It's one of my best traits.

In Paris, with a glass of wine in your hand, you can just be.

Isn't it? Go to Paris. Have your fun but don't

Our plan. Should we open a bottle of cognac now, or gin?

Indeed. When it comes to books, the saucier, the better, don't you think?

We come to enjoy ourselves in it, come what may. And in doing so we add meaning of our own, proving ourselves to be life's creative participants. We discern and live, thereby enhance life. We change life by making life coherent, and we are in the meantime changed by living the coherence we continually create.

It's just that fun atmosphere, working on the car, being with the guys. This is exactly what I needed.

Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives.

You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.

Find pleasure in the path, even if the destination can't be foreseen.

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present-- which seldom happens to us.

Life is short and tedious, and is wholly spent in wishing; we trust to find rest and enjoyment at some future time, often at an age when our best blessings, youth and health, have already left us. When at last I that time has arrived, it surprises us in the midst of fresh desires; we have got no farther when we are attacked by a fever which kills us; if we had been cured, it would only have been to give us more time for other desires.

Life is short, if we are only said to live when we enjoy ourselves; and if we were merely to count up the hours we spent agreeably, a great number of years would hardly make up a life of a few months.

And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at last.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting." Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)