Delight Quote by Catullus Download Open image “My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady's delight” — Catullus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Delight Inspirational Love Sparrows
Nature herself has not provided the most graceful end for her creatures. What becomes of all these birds that people the air and forest for our solacement? The sparrow seems always chipper, never infirm. We do not see their bodies lie about. Yet there is a tragedy at the end of each one of their lives. They must perish miserably;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
And in thy own sermon, thou That the sparrow falls dost allow, It shall not cause me any alarm; For neither so comes the… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“The Robin and the Sparrow" Said the robin to the sparrow, “I should really like to know, Why these anxious human beings Rush about… — Elizabeth Cheney Copy Share Image
“She was seen one day sitting on a roof and talking to some sparrows who were just out of her reach. She was telling… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Before the sparrow arrived, you had almost stopped thinking about flight. Then, last winter, it soared through the sky and landed in front of you, or more precisely on the windowsill of the covered balcony adjoining your bedroom. You knew the grimy window panes were caked with dead ants and dust, and smelt as sour as the curtains. But the… — Ma Jian Copy Share
“Don't blame the sparrow, it is your wickedness which has at last met with its reward. I only hope this may be a lesson… — Yei Theodora Ozaki Copy Share Image
If brandy was made out of sparrows there would soon be no sparrows. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the sparrow. It's everybody. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
A sparrow lay dead on the backseat. She had found her way through a hole in the windscreen, tempted by some seat-sponge for her… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods. — Catullus Copy Share Image
Ah, what is more blessed than to put cares away, when the mind lays by its burden, and tired with labor of far travel… — Catullus Copy Share Image
I hate and love. And why, perhaps you’ll ask. I don’t know: but I feel, and I’m tormented. — Catullus Copy Share Image
“O furum optime balneariorum Vibenni pater et cineadi fili (nam dextra pater inquinatiore, culo filius est voraciore), cur non exilium malasque in oras itis?… — Catullus Copy Share Image
Stop wishing to merit anyone's gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful. — Catullus Copy Share Image
It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem — Catullus Copy Share Image
“I hate and I love. Why do I do this, you may ask? I do not know, but I feel it, and I am… — Catullus Copy Share Image
“I hate & love. And if you should ask how I can do both, I couldn't say; but I feel it, and it shivers me.” — Catullus Copy Share Image
Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus — Catullus Copy Share Image
She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die." -… — John Green Copy Share Image
Shhh.” He put a finger to her lips. “Hear me out. I cannot deny that I would've liked to have made babies with you.… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things,… — James Nayler Copy Share Image
There was an Old Man of Messina, Whose daughter was named Opsibeena; She wore a small wig, and rode out on a pig, To… — Edward Lear Copy Share Image
A real flame of love is a subtle thing. It burns as a will-o'-the-wisp, dancing onward to fairy lands of delight. It roars as… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries. — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
It might be lonelier Without the Loneliness - I’m so accustomed to my Fate - Perhaps the Other - Peace - Would interrupt the… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open… — Aaron Betsky Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
