Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by fortune's dearest… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
God in tender indulgence to our different dispositions; has strewed the Bible with flowers, dignified it with wonders, and enriched it with… — James Hervey Copy Share Image
Grace is always given freely by God, but grace received should always issue in a joyous delight in Him. — Max Anders Copy Share Image
I very much enjoyed my time on 'Doctor Who.' The team were a delight to work with and everyone was very supportive… — Ian McElhinney Copy Share Image
The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The Ploughmen is as good a book as I’ve read in years. Kim Zupan’s language is as rich as Cormac McCarthy’s, and… — Rick DeMarinis Copy Share Image
Why do men delight in work? Fundamentally, I suppose, because there is a sense of relief and pleasure in getting something done… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Desire to know why, and how curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Early in April, as I was vigorously hoeing in a corner, I unearthed a huge toad, to my perfect delight and satisfaction;… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
If we obey God it is going to cost other people more than it costs us, and that is where the sting… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again,… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Kids delight in 'magical thinking', whether in the form of the Tooth Fairy or the saints: whether you see these as comforting… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
A muddy little stream, a village grown unfamiliar with time and trees. I turn around and retrace my way up Main Street… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re free – if we are. Or because… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Transiency is stamped on all our possessions, occupations, and delights. We have the hunger for eternity in our souls, the thought of… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
This splendid book discusses how, in the last two hundred fifty years, large numbers of people have achieved levels of well-being that… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Amor, ch'al cor gentile ratto s'apprende prese costui de la bella persona che mi fu tolta; e 'l modo ancor m'offende. Amor,… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
And what is true education? It is awakening a love for truth; giving a just sense of duty; opening the eyes of… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
One of the delights beyond the grasp of youth is that of Not Going. Not to have an invitation for the dance,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most rapturous delights you have ever had - in the beauty of a landscape, or in the pleasure of food, or… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The letters don't get their true delight, when done in haste & discomfort, nor merely done with diligence & pain, but first… — Giambattista Bodoni Copy Share Image
Directing Mr. Mohanlal was a delight. He's completely there and wanting to know what you want him to do. He's very keen… — Prithviraj Sukumaran Copy Share Image
The true Christian delights to hear something about their Master. They like those sermons best which are full of Christ. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It's kind of like the indie music scene. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
If customers say you're just 'all right', you've not done enough, you've failed to delight. — Ron Kaufman Copy Share Image
The temple in which the Lord Jesus delights most, is a broken and contrite heart, renewed by the Holy Spirit. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
It is not to remain in a golden ciborium that He comes down each day from Heaven, but to find another Heaven,… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
“was the sound of the most beautiful girl in the whole of the British Isles laughing with delight and amusement.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them.… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Delighting in God's Word leads us to delight in God, and delight in God drives away fear. — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight. — William Safire Copy Share Image
All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Working on 'Outlander' has been a delight, it really has. I had kind of forgotten what Scotland was like, and I'd turned… — Sam Heughan Copy Share Image
“Happiness is the satisfaction you feel. There's delight, joy, excitement and pleasant surprise.” — Dee Dee Artner Copy Share Image
I get little kids who recognize me from 'Mary Poppins,' and it just delights me because it's our third generation. — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
