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Enjoyment and Pleasure Quotes and Quotations
 A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.  A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity. After pleasant scratching comes unpleasant smarting. Danger and delight grow on one stalk . Leisure is being allowed to do nothing. Pleasure for an hour, a bottle of wine; pleasure for a year, marriage; pleasure for a lifetime, a garden. The test of pleasure is the memory it leaves behind. (Die Probe Eines Genusses ist Seine Erinnerung.) The true spirit of delight, the exultation, the sense of being more than Man which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry. We must like what we have when we don't have what we like. What the mass media offer is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. To be able to use leisure intelligently will be the last product of an intelligent civilization. There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. All the great pleasures in life are silent. The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them. Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence. Danger and delight grow on one stalk. Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world. Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts, of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than. If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer. We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. No one in this world needs a mink coat but a mink. One's first book, kiss, home run is always the best. Let us have Wine and Women, Mirth and Laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after. 1. If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. 2. Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move. 3. Go very lightly on the vices such as carrying on in society. The social ramble ain't restful. Love, and do what you like. Every good thing that comes is accompanied by trouble. All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening. The physically fit can enjoy their vices. The superfluous is very necessary. - Voltaire There are three ingredients in the good life; learning, earning and yearning. A sense of wrongdoing is an enhancement of pleasure. From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire. - Goethe Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction. Luxury is more deadly than any foe. - Juvenal 
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