Quotes About Enjoyment

Later he wrote to Lodge: I don't grudge the broken arm a bit...I'm always ready to pay the piper when I've had a good dance; and every now and then I like to drink the wine of life with brandy in it.

Reading books for pleasure, of course, is the greatest joy. No need to underline, press on, try out mentally summarizing or evaluating phrases. One is free to read as a child reads—no duties, no goals, no responsibilities, no clock ticking: pure rapture.

I barely eat cake now. The one I'm sending you, make a hole on the top with a knitting needle and pour a glass of whiskey into it to keep it moist.

years, according to my wish, of health, of leisure

And it was the part of a wise man to forget inevitable calamities of human life in the enjoyment of the fleeting hour.

Classically, the patient went into psychotherapy because she was neurotic from the suppression of her perverse desires, now she goes into psychotherapy because she is guilty about not enjoying her perverse desires.

Great wine works wonders and is itself one

This is the way that I think about my life, and I hope that you'll think of your life too. You should think about your life hoping that there will be many moments in it about which you can say; There is no place I'd rather be, there is no thing I'd rather be doing, there is nobody I'd rather be with, & this I will remember well.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.

Make your home as comfortable and attractive as possible and then get on with living.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

hours hours and hours snap up our pleasures

Still, it was fair to say that the minimum requirement for a truly enjoyable existence would be unbridled promiscuity.

Minus one/plus enjoyment—this is the necessarily distorted structural topology where the subject of the unconscious dwells. This subject is never neuter; it is sexed, since sex(uality) is nothing but a configuring of the signifying minus and of the surplus-enjoyment: a configuring which cannot escape contradiction, the latter being the logical consequence of the one (the Other) that is not there.

Steve and Paul had a special bond with ice-creams.

She's using me. And I like it.

But usually, I watched Linda read. I couldn't believe she'd read so much in summer! Sometimes she laughed, reading her book, and once she even cried. I didn't know how anyone could make such a big deal about books.

Playboy: Why are you smiling? Thompson: Am I smiling? Yeah, I guess I am…well, it's fun to lose it sometimes.

A wise man once said, don't die, it's not as fun as it seems

Part of the power of home cooking is that everything tastes better when someone else makes it for you.

But being ruined by taxes is not the worst you have to fear. What security would you have for your lives? How can any of you be sure you would have the free enjoyment of your religion long? Would you put your religion in the power of any set of men living? Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: if the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fail of course.

We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to be a child. If we merely look to the end of the process, the purpose of life is death

Una delle principali premesse di questo studio è che un totale coinvolgimento con ciò che si sta facendo è la condizione essenziale del piacere. Un coinvolgimento parziale ci lascia divisi e in conflitto. p. 12