Children should have the joy of living in far lands, in other persons, in other times - a delightful double existence; and… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
No stile of writing is so delightful as that which is all pith, which never omits a necessary word, nor uses an… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is a regrettable, but undeniable, fact that the most delightful people are seldom big money-makers. — Marjorie Hillis Copy Share Image
Paris strikes the vulgar part of us infinitely the most, but to a thinking mind London is incomparably the most delightful subject… — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
In our pursuit of the things of this world, we usually prevent enjoyment, by expectation; we anticipate our own happiness, and eat… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
With the crime novels, its delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. Its like having a fictitious family. — John Banville Copy Share Image
For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than # agriculture — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Wit is something more than a gymnastic trick of the intellect; true wit implies a beam of thought into the essence of… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
“He sat up. He smiled. Something heavy and winged took off from his chest. Eleanor hadn’t written him a letter, it was… — Rainbow Rowell Eleanor and Park Copy Share Image
Marriage hath in it less of beauty but more of safety, than the single life; it hath more care, but less danger,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a great pleasure to transport one's-self into the spirit of the times; to see how a wise man has thought… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is nothing can equal the tender hours When life is first in bloom, When the heart like a bee, in a… — Henry George Bohn Copy Share Image
Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Then amongst flowers and springs, Making delightful sport, Sat lovers without conflict, without flame — Torquato Tasso Copy Share Image
“We should live deeply and with delight for those who were cheated of life's gift.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and… — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
Let it be clearly understood that the Russian is a delightful person till he tucks in his shirt. As an Oriental he… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
They [the children] live in a world of delightful imagination; they pursue persons and objects that never existed; they make an Argosy… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
“Better to have to retrace your steps and then move forward than never to move forward at all.” — Anne Burack Sayre Copy Share Image
I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at… — Anita Loos Copy Share Image