Be merry if you are wise. [ Martial ]

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act that each tomorrow
May find us farther than today. [ Longfellow ]

Variety is the mother of enjoyment [ Disraeli ]

And 'tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes. [ Wordsworth ]

Enjoyment stops where indolence begins. [ Pollok ]

A day of such serene enjoyment spent.
Were worth an age of splendid discontent. [ James Montgomery ]

He scatters enjoyment who can enjoy much. [ Lavater ]

They most enjoy the world who least admire. [ Young ]

Ambition is a lust that's never quenched,
Grows more inflamed, and madder by enjoyment. [ Otway ]

Fathers alone a father's heart can know,
What secret tides of still enjoyment flow,
When brothers love, but if their hate succeeds,
They wage the war, but 'tis the father bleeds. [ Young ]

You cannot secure even enjoyment in stagnation. [ Mrs. Gatty ]

Moderation is the key-note of lasting enjoyment. [ Hosea Ballou ]

Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest.
Know, all enjoy that power which suits them best. [ Pope ]

Enjoyment germinates not in abundance but in want. [ Herder ]

Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment. [ Leigh Hunt ]

Vanity is the only intellectual enjoyment of many people.

Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow. [ Horace ]

Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find? [ Milton ]

Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways. [ Dr. Watts ]

Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living. [ Goldsmith ]

The miser is like a lover the excess of whose passion bars the enjoyment of it. [ French ]

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils, even if equal in number. [ Pliny ]

Sleep, riches, and health are only truly enjoyed after they have been interrupted. [ Richter ]

Enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to thyself or to others: this is true morality. [ Chamfort ]

The best enjoyment is half disappointment to what we mean, or would have, in this world. [ Bailey ]

To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it. [ Thoreau ]

There is no use or money equal to that of beneficence; here the enjoyment grows upon reflection. [ Mackenzie ]

There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment. [ Joubert ]

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written upon your heart that fearful word satiety. [ Quarles ]

Sentiment, in its broadest acceptation, is as essential to the true enjoyment and grace of life as mind. [ Henry T. Tuckerman ]

By the long practice of caricature I have lost the enjoyment of beauty: I never see a face but distorted. [ Hogarth to a lady who wished to learn caricature ]

Labour endears rest, and both together are absolutely necessary for the proper enjoyment of human existence. [ Burns ]

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. [ Horace Mann ]

Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters. [ Moliere ]

The less you can enjoy, the poorer, the scantier yourself, - the more you can enjoy, the richer, the more vigorous. [ Lavater ]

That nation is in the enjoyment of liberty which stands by its own strength, and does not depend on the will of another. [ Livy ]

Excitement is not enjoyment; in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow. [ Victor Hugo ]

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than expectation. [ Feltham ]

That a liaison between a man and a woman may be truly interesting, there must be between them enjoyment, remembrance, or desire. [ Chamfort ]

When a man is in indigence, picking herbs is his philosophy; the enjoyment of his wife his only commerce, and vassalage his food. [ Hitopadesa ]

Covetousness, by a greediness of getting more, deprives itself of the true end of getting; it loses the enjoyment of what it has got. [ Sprat ]

Natural liberty is the right of common upon a waste: civil liberty is the safe, exclusive, unmolested enjoyment of a cultivated enclosure. [ Paley ]

We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment. [ Henry Home ]

Misery is caused for the most part, not by a heavy crash of disaster, but by the corrosion of less visible evils, which canker enjoyment and undermine security. [ Dr. Johnson ]

The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure. [ Gibbon ]

Youth beholds happiness gleaming in the prospect. Age looks back on the happiness of youth, and, instead of hopes, seeks its enjoyment in the recollection of hope. [ Coleridge ]

Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution. [ Goethe ]

The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

Friendship, unlike love, which is weakened by fruition, grows up, thrives, and increases by enjoyment; and being of itself spiritual, the soul is reformed by the habit of it. [ Montaigne ]

Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who is there does not sometimes hazard it for the enjoyment of an hour? [ Dr. Johnson ]

Without enjoyment, the wealth of the miser is the same to him as if it were another's. But when it is said of a man "he hath so much," it is with difficulty he can be induced to part with it. [ Hitopadesa ]

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 ]

I am persuaded that music is designed to prepare for heaven, to educate for the choral enjoyment of Paradise, to form the mind to virtue and devotion, and to charm away evil and sanctify the heart to God. [ Legh Richmond ]

If our Creator has so bountifully provided for our existence here, which is but momentary, and for our temporal wants, which will soon be forgotten, how much more must He have done for our enjoyment in the everlasting world! [ Hosea Ballou ]

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 ]

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 ]

Young women, the glory of your life is to do something, and to be something. You may have formed the idea that ease and personal enjoyment are the ends of your life. This is a terrible mistake. Development, in the broadest sense and in the highest direction, is the end of your life. [ J. G. Holland, Pseudonym: Timothy Titcomb ]

Poetry can make even the thought of death beautiful, and the sadness of bereavement not without a certain pleasure. Great poets have elicited from the sternest suffering a principle of enjoyment. Sublime faith and earnest love can conjure spirits the most lovely from the darkest abyss. [ Tuckerman ]

There is nothing more necessary to establish reputation than to suspend the enjoyment of it. He that cannot bear the sense of merit with silence must of necessity destroy it; for fame being the genial mistress of mankind, whoever gives it to himself insults all to whom he relates any circumstance to his own advantage. [ Steele ]

What is it that keeps men in continual discontent and agitation? It is that they cannot make realities correspond with their conceptions, that enjoyment steals away from among their hands, that the wished-for comes too late, and nothing reached and acquired produces on the heart the effect which their longing for it at a distance led them to anticipate. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will be there to support you when all other resources are gone. It will be present to you when the energies of your body have fallen away from you. It will last you until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live. [ Trollope ]

The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently endure as much pain when their body is hurt; but in their case the cruelty of torment is greater, because they have no mind to bear them up against their sufferings, and no hope to look forward to when enduring the last extreme pain. Their happiness consists entirely in present enjoyment. [ Chalmers ]

Since I have known God in a saving manner, painting, poetry, and music have had charms unknown to me before. I have received what I suppose is a taste for them, or religion has refined my mind and made it susceptible of impressions from the sublime and beautiful. O, how religion secures the heightened enjoyment of those pleasures which keep so many from God, by their becoming a source of pride! [ Henry Martyn ]

Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas it was its continuance which should have taught us its value. There are three requisitions to the proper enjoyment of earthly blessings, - a thankful reflection on the goodness of the Giver, a deep sense of our unworthiness, a recollection of the uncertainty of long possessing them. The first would make us grateful; the second, humble; and the third, moderate. [ Hannah More ]