The basic paradox about sex is that it always seems to be offering more than it can deliver. A glimpse of a… — Colin Wilson 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
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
We stood there, the three of us, our jaws firmly planted on the floor. Aunt Lil recovered first. She nudged me with… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
There is only beauty / and it has only one perfect expression / poetry. All the rest is a lie /except for… — Stephane Mallarme Copy Share Image
When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Nature delights in making use of the same forms in the most various biological connections: as it does, for instance, in the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
This splendid book discusses how, in the last two hundred fifty years, large numbers of people have achieved levels of well-being that… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
And what is true education? It is awakening a love for truth; giving a just sense of duty; opening the eyes of… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Amor, ch'al cor gentile ratto s'apprende prese costui de la bella persona che mi fu tolta; e 'l modo ancor m'offende. Amor,… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Transiency is stamped on all our possessions, occupations, and delights. We have the hunger for eternity in our souls, the thought of… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight...… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore… — John Milton Copy Share Image
If thy desire to raise thy fortunes encourage thy delights to the casts of fortune, be wise betimes, lest thou repent too… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
In the reading and writing life, delight, for me, is where the mystery lies. Easy enough to figure out how scenes of… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
My hope for all of us is that 'the miles we go before we sleep' will be filled with all the feelings… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
The Lover is ever drunk with Love. He is mad. She is free. He sings with delight. She dances in ecstasy. Caught… — Rumi 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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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
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
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
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
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