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.

What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.

Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.

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.

I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars and already begin to have a new enjoyment.

It's learning how to negotiate to keep both sides happy - whether it's for a multi-million dollar contract or just which show to watch on TV that determines the quality and enjoyment of our lives.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

It is not knowledge but the act of learning not possession but the act of getting there which grants the greatest enjoyment.

If golf wasn't enjoyable and there wasn't a lot of humor and enjoyment even though the game is so frustrating you would wonder why you put yourself through it.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life which fade and are tasteless without it.

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites passions and affections.

Since every man desires happiness it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.

All government indeed every human benefit and enjoyment every virtue and every prudent act is founded on compromise and barter.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment is a secret which but few discover.

True happiness arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired but by controlling the desire.