Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Your love makes my days happy and bright, Into my world you brought pure delight. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A verse may find him, who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Love overcomes, love delights, those who love the Sacred Heart rejoice. — Bernadette Soubirous 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
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
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
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
There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation. — Samuel Johnson 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
Deny the world, defy the devil, despise the flesh, and delight yourself only in the Lord. — Lady Jane Grey Copy Share Image
I do not question the power of our weapons and the efficiency of our logistics; I cannot say these things delight me… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
A painter's hand has a thirst for thieving, it steals from heaven and makes a gift to the memories of men, it… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Look, then, into thine heart, and write! Yes, into Life's deep stream! All forms of sorrow and delight, All solemn Voices of… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
But in vain she did conjure him, To depart her presence so, Having a thousand tongues t' allure him And but one… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Seeming contentment is real discontent, combined with indolence or self-indulgence, which, while taking no legitimate means of raising itself, delights in bringing… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
One can see how great the delight of heaven must be from the fact that it is the delight of everyone in… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
“I love humanity, which has been a constant delight to me during all my seventy-seven years of life; and I love flowers,… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Rosanne Daryl Thomas's tale of her enchantment by bees is a delight to read. It also contains close observations of the natural… — Janet Lembke Copy Share Image
A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The hopelessness of the Turkish Government should make me witness with delight its being swept out of the countries which it tortures.… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
The purest joy in the world is joy in Christ Jesus. When the Spirit is poured down, his people get very near… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
God alone can do what seems impossible. This is the promise of his grace: 'I will restore to you the years that… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
One of the delights of the new age is that it's a turning of consciousness to give us permission to look beyond… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Yet, sluggard, wake, and gull thy soul no more With earth's false pleasures, and the world's delight, Whose fruit is fair and… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
