But when on shore, & wandering in the sublime forests, surrounded by views more gorgeous than even Claude ever imagined, I enjoy… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Mine is the Month of Roses; yes, and mine The Month of Marriages! All pleasant sights And scents, the fragrance of the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder have created a compelling vision for a Clean Tech Nation and a roadmap for creating it, even… — Ralph Cavanagh Copy Share Image
For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The art of pleasing is more based on the art of seeming pleased than people think of, and she disarmed the prejudices… — Ouida Copy Share Image
The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Only to two or three persons in all the world are the reminiscences of a man's early youth interesting: to the parent… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
What makes a sentence, a phrase, a moment, or a scene delightful? Something about recognizing the truth in it, hearing the music… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
The Laughing Heart your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. be on the watch. there are… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
A tattered copy of Johnson's large Dictionary was a great delight to me, on account of the specimens of English versifications which… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
So what's your team called?" asked Kate, twisting her legs into a pretzel-like configuration, "We're called the Winmates because we're inmates who… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
For many, love is a two-sided coin. It can strengthen or stifle, expand or enfeeble, perfect or pauperize. When love is returned,… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
It simply feels right to me to blend the glittery delights of New York City with a largely raw vegan diet -… — Victoria Moran Copy Share Image
Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure love for Christ, your soul's husband.… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Thus understanding and love, that is, the knowledge of and delight in the truth, are, as it were, the two arms of… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
There is a community of the spirit. Join it, and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
To love God does not mean to meet His needs, but rather to delight in Him and to be captivated by His… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The happiness promised us in Christ does not consist in outward advantages-such as leading a joyous and peaceful life, having rich possessions,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Left to herself, nature is always more or less civilized, and delights in a certain refinement; but where the axe has encroached… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Bible NEVER flatters its heroes. It tells us the truth about each one of them in order that against the background… — Alan Redpath 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
Instead of working so hard to prove the skeptics wrong, it makes a lot more sense to delight the true believers. They… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Perhaps one central reason for loving dogs is that they take us away from this obsession with ourselves. When our thoughts start… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
Say, what other metre is it Than the meeting of the eyes? Nature poureth into nature Through the channels of that feature… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It would be the greatest delight of the seraphs to pile up sand on the seashore or to pull weeds in a… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
“All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth soles, a… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we… — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
Every word carries its own surprises and offers its own rewards to the reflective mind. Their amazing variety is a constant delight.… — George Armitage Miller Copy Share Image
The Eucharist, behold the Christian's treasure, his delight on earth. Since Jesus is in the Eucharist for him personally, his whole life… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
We can read the paper or current magazines and learn about national and world events, think about controversial subjects, learn how to… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
No doubt, the poetry, overjoyed by swallowing the beverage of passionate thoughts, delights the mind. But she does not realize the sorrows… — Manmohan Acharya Copy Share Image
The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
