"I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?"

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"I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?"

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"It's very silly, she said, "but I go on with it in spite of myself. I'm afraid I'm too easily pleased; no novel is so silly I can't read it."

Henry James, American Writer

Enjoyment, Curiosity, Interest, Joy, Observation

"Life is delicious. Waste not one bite!"

A. D. Posey, American Poet

Enjoyment, Life, Joy, Food, Experience

"The lesson adults can learn here is that the world is filled with things for our enjoyment."

Allen Klein, American Businessman

Enjoyment, World

"Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment."

Novalis, German Poet

Enjoyment, Learning

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

Francois Fenelon, French Clergyman

Enjoyment, Expectation, Spiritual

"While we want to enjoy what we don't have, don't forget to enjoy the incredible beauty of what we do have."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Enjoyment, Enjoy, Beauty, What, Have

"Enjoy every bit of your life to the fullest. Your compromises and sacrifices will be rewarded."

Santosh Kalwar, Nepalese Poet

Enjoyment, Life, Compromise, Sacrifice

"Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man."

Hugh Blair, Scottish Theologian

Enjoyment, Man, Mediocrity

"Enjoy the rainbow while it lasts and don't chase it when it's gone."

Marty Rubin, American Author

Enjoyment, Transience, Joy, Life

"But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning."

Anna Neagle, English Actress

Enjoyment, Planning, Solitude

Explore more quotes by John Ruskin

"Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance."

Beauty

"The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him."

Man

"In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it."

Success

"There is no wealth but life."

Life

"No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases."

Society

"To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also."

Thought

"The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion."

Responsibility

"Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave."

Education

"God gives us always strength enough and sense enough for everything He wants us to do."

Faith

"To be taught to read-what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak-but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think-nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true."

Education