A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Don't give way to heedlessness or to intimacy with sensual delight - for a heedful person, absorbed in jhana, attains an abundance… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The wise man delights in water, the Good man delights in mountains. For the wise move; but the Good stay still. The… — Confucius Copy Share Image
I wake up and I say to myself 'How can I delight Vogue?' and usually I succeed pretty quickly. — Spencer Matthews Copy Share Image
The bridge fell away into the chasm, and the Cyclops howled ... with delight, because he was standing right next to us. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness. — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
Artists put as much vitality and delight into their saintliness and escape out as most men do their escapes into similar places… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Tell me a story. In this century, and moment, of mania, Tell me a story. Make it a story of great distances,… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
To be laughed at is no great hardship to me. I can delight in scoffs and jeers. Caricatures, lampoons, and slanders are… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“You must always reserve a question for people who think you are proud when you talk about your dreams! The question is… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I do note that photography, a despised medium to work in, is full of empty phonies and worthless commercial people. That presents… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
And what is the joy of Christ? The joy and delight which springs forever in His great heart, from feeling that He… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
“What are you giving him?" Nicola Vileroy tilted her head... " Something to mesmerize and delight him. Something absolutely ethereal that would… — Daniel Nayeri Copy Share Image
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
So what's your team called?" asked Kate, twisting her legs into a pretzel-like configuration, "We're called the Winmates because we're inmates who… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
We do not know whether it is good to live or to die. Therefore, we should not take delight in living, nor… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table. We come to it freshly, in the dewy youth… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I envision a day when every city and town has front and back yards, community gardens and growing spaces, nurtured into life… — Greg Peterson Copy Share Image
I don't wish to defend everything that has been done in the name of Utopia. But I think many of the attacks… — Hans Magnus Enzensberger Copy Share Image
God is the treasure, and where the treasure is, there is the heart. By this we may test our love to God.… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Lust is a pleasure bought with pains, a delight hatched with disquiet, a content passed with fear, and a sin finished with… — Demonax Copy Share Image
Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit, though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight! — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Tis the night - the night Of the grave's delight, And the warlocks are at their play; Ye think that without The… — Arthur Cleveland Coxe Copy Share Image
Let no man pretend to fear sin that does not fear temptation also! These two are too closely united to be separated.… — John Owen Copy Share Image
A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil can destroy. — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There was an Old Man of Messina, Whose daughter was named Opsibeena; She wore a small wig, and rode out on a… — Edward Lear Copy Share Image
Helming my own swimwear line, I know a thing or two about modeling, and of course, I delight in playing with dazzling… — Dorit Kemsley Copy Share Image
The message of a leopard-print jumpsuit is clear: 'I am a huntress who delights in eating the offal of her prey.' — Simon Doonan Copy Share Image
Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly… — Jeremiah Burroughs Copy Share Image
