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Delights Quotes by Mark Twain
- Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.
- For instance, take this sample: he has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights, the one…
- When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it,…
- Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting,…
More Delights Quotes
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. — Johann Sebastian Bach
- Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise,… — Saint Basil
- That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? — Joseph Addison
- For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life. — William Blake
- A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul. — Minna Antrim
- If delight may provoke men's labour, what greater delights is there then to behold the earth as apparelled with plants, as with… — Unknown Author
- The message of a leopard-print jumpsuit is clear: 'I am a huntress who delights in eating the offal of her prey.' — Simon Doonan
- The delights of self-discovery are always available. — Gail Sheehy
- Prayer is not a means for us to persuade a reluctant God to do something which is against His better judgment. Prayer,… — John F Walvoord
- There be delights that will fetch the day about from sun to sun and rock the tedious year as in a delightful… — J. D. Sedding
- What is paradise, but, a garden, an orchard of trees and herbs, full of pleasure and nothing there but delights. — William Lawson