It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to bind the beholder. But true genius seeks to defend us from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. — Alcibiades Copy Share Image
Am I tough? Am I strong? Am I hard-core? Absolutely. Did I whimper with pathetic delight when I sank my teeth into… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
The fact of our deriving constant pleasure from whatever is a type or semblance of divine attributes, and from nothing but that… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
You know it already that each one of us is the effect of the infinite past; the child is ushered into the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
nature has not changed. The night is still unsullied, the stars still twinkle, and the wild thyme smells as sweetly now as… — George Sand Copy Share Image
Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every… — Socrates Copy Share Image
A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of… — William James Copy Share Image
I think it's worth trying to be a mother who delights in who her children are, in their knock-knock jokes and earnest… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Nature was indeed at her artistic best when she created the nutmeg, a delight to the eye in all its avatars, from… — Waverley Root Copy Share Image
In your arms was still delight, Quiet as a street at night; And thoughts of you, I do remember, Were green leaves… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
I use the Scriptures, not as an arsenal to be resorted to only for arms and weapons, but as a matchless temple,… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
Democracy encourages a taste for physical gratification; this taste, if it becomes excessive, soon disposes men to believe that all is matter… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
One of the biggest problems of mathematics is to explain to everyone else what it is all about. The technical trappings of… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams. — John Milton Copy Share Image
All of us remember the home of our childhood. Interestingly, our thoughts do not dwell on whether the house was large or… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
At home the great delight is to see the clover and grass now growing on places that were bare when we came.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If we make God our heart's delight, we shall have our heart's desire. — T. B. Joshua Copy Share Image
It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights.… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
Pressing the shutter has remained a moment of joyful recognition, comparable to the delight of a child balancing on tiptoe and suddenly,… — Inge Morath Copy Share Image
