To hope is to enjoy. [ Saint-Lambert ]
To enjoy is not to corrupt. [ Mirabeau ]
Let ev'ry man enjoy his whim;
What's he to me or I to him? [ Churchill ]
Goods are theirs that enjoy them. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
May mankind enjoy universal peace. [ Chin Lun ]
Goods are theirs only who enjoy them. [ Proverb ]
Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber. [ William Shakespeare ]
And hearts resolved and hands prepared
The blessings they enjoy to guard. [ Smollett ]
He scatters enjoyment who can enjoy much. [ Lavater ]
Oh, say! what is that thing called light,
Which I must never enjoy?
What are the blessings of the sight?
Oh, tell your poor blind boy! [ Colley Cibber ]
He lives twice who can at once employ
The present well and e'en the past enjoy. [ Pope ]
Oh! that a dream so sweet, so long enjoy'd,
Should be so sadly, cruelly destroy'd! [ Moore ]
They most enjoy the world who least admire. [ Young ]
Fools build houses, and wise men enjoy them. [ Proverb ]
Enjoy what you have; hope for what you lack. [ Levis ]
My, crown is in my heart, not on my head;
Not deck'd with diamonds and Indian stones,
Nor to be seen : my crown is call'd content;
A crown it is that seldom kings enjoy. [ Shakespeare ]
The youth fights that the old man may enjoy. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
We cannot enjoy a friend here.
If we are to meet it is beyond the grave.
How much of our soul a friend takes with him!
We half die in him. [ William Ellery Channing ]
What avails it that indulgent Heaven
From mortal eyes has wrapt the woes to come,
If we, ingenious to torment ourselves.
Grow pale at hideous fictions of our own?
Enjoy the present; nor with needless cares
Of what may spring from blind misfortune's womb,
Appal the surest hour that life bestows.
Serene, and master of yourself, prepare
For what may come; and leave the rest to Heaven. [ Armstrong ]
Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest.
Know, all enjoy that power which suits them best. [ Pope ]
To be happy is not to enjoy: it is not to suffer. [ Raspail ]
He that fears not the future may enjoy the present. [ Proverb ]
The people are free, and see how well they enjoy it. [ Mephisto, in "Faust." ]
Very few enjoy money, because they can't get enough. [ Amer. Proverb ]
To abstain so as to enjoy is the epicurism of reason. [ Rousseau ]
Enjoy your little while the fool is in search of more. [ Spanish Proverb ]
They that command the most, enjoy themselves the least. [ Proverb ]
The pleasure of what we enjoy, is lost by coveting more. [ Proverb ]
So much is mine as I enjoy, and give away for God's sake. [ Proverb ]
Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow. [ Horace ]
Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find? [ Milton ]
Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love than to be loved. [ Hazlitt ]
Women enjoy more the pleasure they give than the pleasure they feel. [ Rochepedre ]
Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits. [ Alfred de Musset ]
To enjoy reading is to transform wearisome hours into delightful ones. [ Montesquieu ]
The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them. [ Tillotson ]
There is no health; physicians say that we, at best, enjoy but neutrality. [ Donne ]
He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him. [ Mme. Swetchine ]
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life. [ Martial ]
Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better. [ Johnson ]
If thou modestly enjoy thy fame, thou art not unworthy to rank with the holy. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
From the loss of our friends, teach us how to enjoy and improve those who remain. [ William Ellery Channing ]
Handsome widows, after a twelvemonth, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit. [ Balzac ]
Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason. [ Rousseau ]
Not till a new thing sprouts up does a man ever enjoy intelligently that which is old. [ Rückert ]
Enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to thyself or to others: this is true morality. [ Chamfort ]
In retailing slander, we name the originator, in order to enjoy a pleasure without danger. [ Mme. de Puisieux ]
Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy. [ Young ]
He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day. [ Milton ]
To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it. [ Thoreau ]
Many men and many women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not. [ Chamfort ]
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them; for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes. [ Juvenal ]
Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it. [ Richter ]
Not to enjoy one's youth, when one is young, is to imitate the miser who starves beside his treasures. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]
Let us love! let us enjoy the fugitive hour! Man has no harbor, time has no shores: it runs, and we pass! [ Lamartine ]
Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man Bias no harbor, time has no shore; it rushes on, and carries us with it. [ Lamartine ]
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself. [ H. W. Shaw ]
Now learn what and how great benefits a moderate diet brings with it. Before all, you will enjoy good health. [ Horace ]
He who knows what it is to enjoy God will dread His loss; he who has seen His face will fear to see His back. [ Richard Alleine ]
No one ought to enjoy what is too good for him: he ought to make himself worthy of it, and rise to its level. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
It is pleasant to enjoy good fortune with one's friends; but if any ill befall, a friend's kind eye beams comfort. [ Euripides ]
The less you can enjoy, the poorer, the scantier yourself, - the more you can enjoy, the richer, the more vigorous. [ Lavater ]
Avoid greatness; in a cottage there may be found more real happiness than kings or their favorites enjoy in palaces. [ Horace ]
If we did but know how little some enjoy the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world. [ Young ]
It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future. [ Chamfort ]
Of all the riches that we hug, of all the pleasures we enjoy, we can carry no more out of this world than out of a dream. [ Bonnell ]
Men possessing minds which are morose, solemn, and inflexible enjoy generally a greater share of dignity than of happiness. [ Bacon ]
Men possessing minds which are morose, solemn, and inflexible, enjoy, in general, a greater share of dignity than of happiness. [ Bacon ]
Life is like a game of whist. I don't enjoy the game much; but I like to play my cards well, and see what will be the end of it. [ George Eliot ]
Where much is given, much shall be required. There are never privileges to enjoy without corresponding duties to fulfil in return. [ Phiiups Brooks ]
I am above being injured by fortune; though she snatch away much, more will remain to me. The blessings I now enjoy transcend fear. [ Ov ]
The life of many a man and woman is so filled with overmuch of good things that they have no time to enjoy the least of their treasures. [ Newell Dwight Hillis ]
If we are rich with the riches which we neither give nor enjoy, we are rich with the riches which are buried in the caverns of the earth. [ Veeshnoo Sarma ]
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds; and these invaluable communications are within the reach of all. [ Mme. de Genlis ]
Many in hot pursuit have hasted to the goal of wealth, but have lost, as they ran, those apples of gold, the mind and the power to enjoy it. [ Tupper ]
People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy. [ Sterne ]
Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness are like the days of spring. Instead of complaining, O my heart, of their brief duration, try to enjoy them. [ Rückert ]
A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty. [ Lord Kames ]
The world will be to each one of us very much what we make it. The cheerful are its real possessors, for the world belongs to those who enjoy it. [ Samuel Smiles ]
To abstain from pleasure for a time, in order the better to enjoy in the future, is the philosophy of the sage; it is the epicureanism of reason. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy than to attempt to understand. [ Tuckerman ]
The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least, - the privilege of making them happy. [ Colton ]
Look upon every day, O youth, as the whole of life, not merely as a section, and enjoy the present without wishing, through haste, to spring on to another. [ Jean Paul ]
We should manage our fortune like our constitution; enjoy it when good, have patience when bad, and never apply violent remedies but in cases of necessity. [ La Roche ]
Many sacrifices have been made just to enjoy the feeling of vengeance, without any intention of causing an amount of injury equivalent to what one has suffered. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Every day is a gift I receive from heaven; let us enjoy today that which it bestows on me. It belongs not more to the young than to me, and tomorrow belongs to no one. [ Mancroix ]
When the heart of man is serene and tranquil, he wants to enjoy nothing but himself: every movement, even corporeal movement, shakes the brimming nectar cup too rudely. [ Richter ]
Know the true value of time: snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. [ Lord Chesterfield ]
Enjoy the blessings of this day if God sends them; and the evils bear patiently and sweetly. For this day only is ours; we are dead to yesterday, and we are not born to tomorrow. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
All the good things of this world are no further good to us than as they are of use; and whatever we may heap up to give to others, we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more. [ De Foe ]
We want more loving knowledge to enable us to enjoy life, and we require to cultivate the art of making the most of the common means and appliances of enjoyment which lie about us on every side. [ Samuel Smiles ]
He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank. [ Colton ]
The misfortune in the state is that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern, and in art, that nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but that every one wants to reproduce on his own account. [ Goethe ]
I armed her against the censures of the world; showed her that books were sweet unreproaching companions to the miserable, and that if they could not bring us to enjoy life, they would at least teach us to endure it. [ Goldsmith ]
Very few people know how to enjoy life. Some say to themselves: I do this or that, therefore I am amused: I have paid so many pieces of gold, hence I feel so much pleasure
; and they wear away their lives on that grindstone. [ A. de Musset ]
To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do today that you may enjoy tomorrow it is but deferring the enjoyment; so that to be idle or industrious, vicious or virtuous, is but with a view of procrastinating the one or the other. [ B. R. Haydon ]
Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away. Enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what tomorrow may produce. [ Horace ]
There are three classes of readers; some enjoy without judgment; others judge without enjoyment; and some there are who judge while they enjoy, and enjoy while they judge. The latter class reproduces the work of art on which it is engaged. Its numbers are very small. [ Goethe ]
The press is not only free; it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It was not granted by monarchs, it was not gained for us by aristocracies; but it sprang from the people, and, with an immortal instinct, it has always worked for the people. [ Beaconsfield ]
Blessings we enjoy daily; and for most of them, because they be so common, most men forget to pay their praises; but let not us, because it is a sacrifice so pleasing to Him that made the sun and us, and still protects us, and gives us flowers and showers and meat and content. [ Izaak Walton ]
Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse; the best means to grow better is to be the worst there. [ Quarles ]
Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others, and, consequently, pushes us on to promote the latter and prevent the former; and that without any abstract contemplation on the beauty of virtue, and without the allurements or terrors of religion. [ Fielding ]
Individuals possessing moderate sized brains easily find their proper sphere, and enjoy in it scope for all their energy. In ordinary circumstances they distinguish themselves, but they sink when difficulties accumulate around them. Persons with large brains, on the other hand, do not readily attain their appropriate place; common occurrences do not rouse or call them forth. [ George Combe ]
We enter our studies, and enjoy a society which we alone can bring together. We raise no jealousy by conversing with one in preference to another; we give no offence to the most illustrious by questioning him as long as we will, and leaving him as abruptly. Diversity of opinion raises no tumult in our presence: each interlocutor stands before us, speaks or is silent, and we adjourn or decide the business at our leisure. [ Landor ]
Good taste is essentially a moral quality. Taste is not only a part and an index of morality — it is the only morality. The first, last, and closest trial question to any living creature is, What do you like?
- and the entire object of true education is to make people not merely do right things, but enjoy the right things. What we like determines what we are, and is the sign of what we are; and to teach taste is inevitably to form character. [ Ruskin ]
Though no participator in the joys of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions of the tenderness due to dumb creatures, in the tranquil cruelty of angling. I can only palliate the wanton destructiveness of my amusement by trying to assure myself that my pleasure does not spring from the success of the treachery I practice toward a poor little fish, but rather from that innocent revelry in the luxuriance of summer life which only anglers enjoy to the utmost. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their soul into ours. God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers; they give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race. No matter how poor I am, I shall not pine for want of intellectual companionship, and I may become a cultivated man, though excluded from what is called the best society in the place where I live. [ W. E. Channing ]