Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The bridge fell away into the chasm, and the Cyclops howled ... with delight, because he was standing right next to us. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I wake up and I say to myself 'How can I delight Vogue?' and usually I succeed pretty quickly. — Spencer Matthews Copy Share Image
Artists put as much vitality and delight into their saintliness and escape out as most men do their escapes into similar places… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness. — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't give way to heedlessness or to intimacy with sensual delight - for a heedful person, absorbed in jhana, attains an abundance… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The wise man delights in water, the Good man delights in mountains. For the wise move; but the Good stay still. The… — Confucius Copy Share Image
If you don’t delight in the fact that your Father is holy, holy, holy, then you are spiritually dead. You may be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a fact that God wants to destroy every work of our flesh, but He never desires to destroy our personality.… — Watchman Nee 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
He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Assess the work of whatever others do to you or say about you, and cultivate fortitude and the understanding to appreciate their… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
The history of the cosmos is the history of the struggle of becoming. When the dim flux of unformed life struggled, convulsed… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The person who loves God cannot help loving every man as himself, even though he is grieved by the passions of those… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
To please God… to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness… to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The bicycles go by in twos and threes - There's a dance in Billy Brennan's barn to-night, And there's the half-talk code… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
“Out of all its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
People who blame the Bible for the modern destruction of nature have failed to see its delight in the variety and individuality… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The art of being agreeable frequently miscarries through the ambition which accompanies it. Wit, learning, wisdom,--what can more effectually conduce to the… — Richard Cumberland Copy Share Image
Scientific discovery is a private event, and the delight that accompanies it, or the despair of finding it illusory, does not travel.… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Having a book is somewhat like having a baby, as many woman writers have observed before me: the conception, the long preparation,… — Doris Grumbach Copy Share Image
Somewhere behind me, Zia yelled, "Hippo!" Which I thought was a little late. She stumbled toward me over the rocking deck, the… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in… — John Piper Copy Share Image
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Emotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala, whence come delight and disgust… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Tis the night - the night Of the grave's delight, And the warlocks are at their play; Ye think that without The… — Arthur Cleveland Coxe Copy Share Image
A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil can destroy. — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Let no man pretend to fear sin that does not fear temptation also! These two are too closely united to be separated.… — John Owen Copy Share Image
When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight! — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Lust is a pleasure bought with pains, a delight hatched with disquiet, a content passed with fear, and a sin finished with… — Demonax Copy Share Image
Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit, though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Every attempt we make is imperfect; yet each one of those imperfect attempts is an occasion for a delight unlike anything else… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
False world, thou ly'st: thou canst not lend The least delight: Thy favours cannot gain a friend, They are so slight. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
