Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sports are, and should be, a joy. And it delights me that the joy I felt through the years of broadcasting games… — Marty Glickman Copy Share Image
Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The warm sun kissed the earthTo consecrate thy birth,And from his close embraceThy radiant faceSprang into sight,A blossoming delight. — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being. ... I believe He is pleased and delights in the happiness of those… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Greatest delight in life is, having someone who loves you for the lifetime! Joy is what one needs the most in life.… — Jyoti Patel Copy Share Image
As far as hip hop, I ain't even gonna front, it was 'Rapper's Delight.' That was the first thing I heard where… — Madlib Copy Share Image
Photography was so perfectly suited to my sensibility and situation, it gave me a voice, a kind of crazy, out-of-whack voice, at… — Abelardo Morell Copy Share Image
“The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. And the sea is precisely their best vehicle, the only medium through… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
To love is for the Soul to choose a companion, and travel with it along the perilous defiles and winding ways of… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The heart that delights in God and longs only to see His glory advance will seldom be conscious of sacrifice. God in… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
We see a world of abundance, not limits. In the midst of a great deal of talk about reducing the human ecological… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
In the belly of the furnace of creativity is a sexual fire; the flames twine about each other in fear and delight.… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
“The more I dim my eyes over print and frazzle my brain over abstract ideas, the more I appreciate the delight of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Do you want to be safe from the influence, ways, and lusts of the world and the flesh (I John 2:16)? From… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
“Always has woman crouched close to earth like a partridge hen mothering her young; always has my wantonness of roving led me… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Naturally, men are prone to spin themselves a web of opinions out of their own brain, and to have a religion that… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Deny the world, defy the devil, despise the flesh, and delight yourself only in the Lord. — Lady Jane Grey Copy Share Image
I love the look of delight on my guests' faces when I serve them a bowl of olive-oil aioli alongside roasted potatoes… — Samin Nosrat Copy Share Image
Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
What I've learned the more time I've spent following Jesus is that God delights in answering our impossible prayers. — Bob Goff Copy Share Image
To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
That's what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded,… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight. — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,The humble sheep a threat'ning horn:While the Lily white shall in love delight,Nor a thorn nor… — William Blake Copy Share Image
The world says of marriage: A short joy and a long displeasure. But he who understands it finds in it delight, love,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful destiny! God made no mistakes when God wrote the beautiful, unfolding pattern of delight as You! — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
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