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My family is a part of my life and everything is all a mixture of enjoyment. (Quote by - Davy Jones)

Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters. (Quote by - Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere)

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation. (Quote by - Francois Fenelon)

Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse. (Quote by - Samuel Alexander)

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. (Quote by - Frances Burney)

Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys. (Quote by - Honore de Balzac)

The friends whom I have are invaluable, and although not numerous they are sufficient for my enjoyment; and the texture of my own mind renders me very indifferent to the rest of the world. (Quote by - George Combe)

I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment. (Quote by - Maria Mitchell)

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment. (Quote by - Thomas Otway)

My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people. (Quote by - Richard Rogers)

He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love. (Quote by - Johann Kaspar Lavater)

Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something. (Quote by - Mark Rylance)

Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours. (Quote by - Robert Toombs)

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described. (Quote by - Jean Jacques Rousseau)

What it all boils down to for me is having the enthusiasm to do something for enjoyment and being stimulated by what's around you. That's what photography does for me. (Quote by - Graeme Le Saux)

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity. (Quote by - Simon Newcomb)

It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment. (Quote by - Samuel Alexander)

Let us have Wine and Women, Mirth and Laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after. (Quote by - Lord Byron)

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition. (Quote by - James Nasmyth)

I'd rather see you drink a glass of wine than a glass of milk. So many people drink Coca-Cola and all these soft drinks with sugar. Some of these drinks have 8 or 9 teaspoons of sugar in them What's the good of living if you can't have the things that give a little enjoyment? (Quote by - Jack LaLanne)

Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels. (Quote by - Thomas Traherne)

It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment! (Quote by - Max Beckmann)

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