O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green, O lily bursting white, Dear lily of delight, Spring in my heart agen That… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
“However low he may fall, a man can never deny himself the delight of feeling cleverer, more powerful or even better fed… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
The Lord Jesus is a deep sea of joy; my soul shall dive therein, shall be swallowed up in the delights of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science by rendering them my supreme delight. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
Rap has always had a braggadocios flavour to it. That goes all the way back to 'Rapper's Delight.' — Gza Copy Share Image
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Worship is not about my enjoyment. It is about my enjoyment of God. It is not about my pleasure or my delight… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind,… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Natural objects themselves, even when they make no claim to beauty, excite the feelings, and occupy the imagination. Nature pleases, attracts, delights,… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
The longer it possesseth a man the more he will delight in it, and the older he groweth the more he shall… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
“Now take all the delights of the earth, melt them into one single delight, and cast it entire into a single man… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
He loved a book because it was a book; he loved its odor, its form, its title. What he loved in a… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The body's weakness comes from illnesses, while the heart's weakness comes from sins. And just as the body does not taste the… — Dhul-Nun al-Misri Copy Share Image
If a man loses a dear friend, he looks around and sees many friends come to console and comfort him. If a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Over time, as the thinking mind begins to settle [through the practice of meditation], we’ll start to see our patterns and habits… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
And what the people but a herd confus'd, A miscellaneous rabble, who extol Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise?… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I began to understand that there were certain talkers--certain girls--whom people liked to listen to, not because of what they, the girls,… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I think that one of the many advantages of death accruing over a long period of time is that you do have… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
What a sweet and succulent morsel: so soft, so salty, so deliciously delectable, it makes me want to wiggle with delight. You… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
It is written that the last enemy to be vanquished is death. We should begin early in life to vanquish this enemy… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“What is this world's delight, Lightening that mocks the night, Brief as even as bright” — John Keats Copy Share Image
It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth. — Madame Roland Copy Share Image
Gold delights to walk through the very midst of the guard, and to break its way through hard rocks, more powerful in… — Horace Copy Share Image
Maybe love is thinking that every time your partner does or says something mundane that you want to start a Mexican wave… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
Nurtured, nourished people, who love themselves and care for themselves, are the delight of the Universe. — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
You can experience true delight on the Sabbath from family history work...Finding family members...can bring immense joy. — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
The press in America has never been stronger and never been freer and never been more vibrant, sometimes to my chagrin, and… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
In March and in April from morning till night In sowing and seeding good housewives delight. — Thomas Tusser Copy Share Image
If you delight more in God’s gifts than in God Himself, you are practically setting up another God above Him, and this… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to… — Confucius Copy Share Image