Gail Sheehy tells us that "the delights of self-discovery are always available." All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight… — Jonathan Swift 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
There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage. — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
Happiness can come in a single moment. And in a single moment it can go again. But a single moment does not… — Stephanie Dowrick Copy Share Image
Why do we marry, why take friends and lovers? Why give ourselves to music, painting, chemistry or cooking? Out of simple delight… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
We see a world of abundance, not limits. In the midst of a great deal of talk about reducing the human ecological… — William McDonough 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
When animals express their feelings they pour out like water from a spout. Animals' emotions are raw, unfiltered, and uncontrolled. Their joy… — Marc Bekoff Copy Share Image
I think Mustique is Duchampian - it will always provide an endless source of delight. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life — if ever I thought a good thought—if ever I… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assuduities of art, with which it would rear dulness to maturity, and to glory in… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts.… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
He [Columbus] enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of high, proud exultation that… — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it,… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Adults can take a simple holiday for Children and screw it up. What began as a presentation of simple gifts to delight… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to faith in future… — John Piper Copy Share Image
But me, not destined such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent and care; Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image