The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use. — John Denham Copy Share Image
Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Delighting in the Lord, knowing His Word, and committing yourself to Him are ways to ensure that your plans and desires for… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
Thy love is Singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ, and thou dost find joy and comfort in no other… — Richard Rolle Copy Share Image
Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
When all within is peace How nature seems to smile Delights that never cease The live-long day beguile — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Dining with one's friends and beloved family is certainly one of life's primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Once, long ago in her world, a sunny day in spring was her favorite, but now a sunny day in winter delights… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of the settled… — Denis de Rougemont Copy Share Image
He exulted in the possession of himself once more; he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
My son and I discovered Terry Pratchett's books together, when he was about eleven years old. He'd be reading on his own… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
God takes great delight in surprising His people with His goodness. He delights in being there for us, in coming through for… — John Paul Jackson Copy Share Image
I want to single out Kathryn Hahn's performance in Jill Soloway's film 'Afternoon Delight,' which in my opinion should have been nominated… — Amy Landecker Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The art of being agreeable frequently miscarries through the ambition which accompanies it. Wit, learning, wisdom,--what can more effectually conduce to the… — Richard Cumberland Copy Share Image
How we delight to build our recollections upon some basis of reality,--a place, a country, a local habitation! how the events of… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
Also known as May Eve, May Day, and Walpurgis Night, happens at the beginning of May. It celebrates the height of Spring… — Selena Fox Copy Share Image
“We read the pagan sacred books with profit and delight. With myth and fable we are ever charmed, and find a pleasure… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Look what thy soul holds dear, imagine it To lie that way thou goest, not whence thou com'st. Suppose the singing birds… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
People who blame the Bible for the modern destruction of nature have failed to see its delight in the variety and individuality… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
I follow filmmakers, and story, and characters that surprise and delight me. — Fred Hechinger Copy Share Image
“Delight and cheer in life, and let it uplift and inspire you. Spread happiness.” — Amy Leigh Mercree Copy Share Image
Materialistic and valuable things are greedy immature man's delight. — Kishore Bansal Copy Share Image
True friends delight in the building up of one another rather than bashing each other. — Phaedra Parks Copy Share Image
“I vibrate with cheer and delight in my cells. I let beauty heal me!” — Amy Leigh Mercree Copy Share Image
