All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

-Butler, Samuel
  The Way of  All Flesh, ch.19.

  It isanuneasy lot at best, tobe what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at thisgreat spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self.

-Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans
^2  Middlemarch, bk.3, ch.29.

   The 'men of the hour', the self-assured who strut among us in the jingling harness of their success and importance, how can you let yourself be irritated by them. Let them enjoy their triumphöon the level to which it belongs.

-Hammarskjo«  ld, Dag HjalmarAgne Carl
  Va«  gmarken (translated by L Sjsy«  berg and W H  Auden as Markings,1964).

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

-Jerome,Jerome K(lapka)
  Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow,'On Being Idle'.

   Some of the opera houses in Italy had to be burnt down because people could neither see nor hear. They gave up seeing years ago, but they did enjoy the music.

-Johnson, Philip Cortelyou
  Informal talk,  Architectural  Association School of Architecture, 28 Nov. Collected in Writings (1979).

Nor shall our cups make any guilty men: But, at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met. No simple word, That shall be utter'd at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning: or affright The liberty, that we'll enjoy tonight.

-Jonson, Ben
  Epigrams,'On Inviting a Friend to Supper'.

Come, let us here enjoy the shade; For love in shadow best is made. Though envy oft his shadow be, None brooks the sunlight worse than he.

-Jonson, Ben
The Underwood,'A Song' (published1640).

   Pray inwardly, even though you do not enjoy it. It does good though you feel nothing, even though you think you are doing nothing.

-Julian of Norwich known as LadyJulian
^c.1393  Revelations of Divine Love, ch.41.

People don't learn to enjoy pictures because they seldom look at them; and they seldom look at pictures because they have never learnt to enjoy them.

-Mortimer, (Charles) Raymond Bell
  Try  Anything Once.