Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly! There's naught in this life sweet… — John Fletcher Copy Share Image
A man who always talks for fame never can be pleasing. The man who talks to unburthen his mind is the man… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To the untraveled, territory other than their own familiar heath is invariably fascinating. Next to love it is the one thing that… — Theodore Dreiser 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
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
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
The first characteristic of Rossini's music is speed - a speed which removes from the soul all the sombre emotions that are… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,The humble sheep a threat'ning horn:While the Lily white shall in love delight,Nor a thorn nor… — William Blake Copy Share Image
To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I give you my promise to be by your side forevermore. I promise to love, to honor, and to listen as you… — Kristen Proby Copy Share Image
Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness. — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses… — William Blake Copy Share Image
To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Let him cry whoever feels like crying, for we were animals before we became reasoning beings, and the shedding of a tear,… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Or is it that slow paced evil creeps in when it espies and envies happiness, and then takes a deliberate foul delight… — Leslie W.P. Garland Copy Share Image
However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else admits he's hooked, too. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
