Appeals Quote by Euripides Download Open image “Delight in splendor is No more than happiness with little: for both Have their appeal.” — Euripides ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Appeals Beauty Delight Happiness Joy Littles Splendor
There is a plain distinction to be made betwixt pleasure and happiness. For tho' there can be no happiness without pleasure--yet the converse of the proposition will not hold true.--We are so made, that from the common gratifications of our appetites, and the impressions of a thousand objects, we snatch the one, like a transient gleam, without being suffered to… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share
Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Less is more. Happiness is found close to the necessities of life, not in needless complexity and meaningless multiplicity of choice. — Peter Dale Scott Copy Share Image
The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
From the greatest to the smallest, happiness and usefulness are largely found in the same soul, and the joy of life is won in… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Joy is a noble thing, but happiness though fleeting can be found every day and in every small little way — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am certain that there are two things in life which are dependable: the delights of the flesh and the delights of literature. I… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
“Oh where is the noble face of modesty, or the strength of virtue, now that blasphemy is in power and men have put justice… — Euripides Copy Share Image
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; a viper is not more hateful. — Euripides Copy Share Image
“What greater sorrow than being forced to leave behind my native earth?” — Euripides Copy Share Image
“You don't know what your life is, nor what you're doing, nor who you are.” — Euripides Copy Share Image
Who then will dare to say I'm weak or timid? No, they'll say I'm loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“Dreams of the proud man, making great And greater ever, Things which are not of God. In wide And devious coverts, hunter-wise, He coucheth Time's unhasting stride, Following, following, him whose eyes Look not to Heaven. For all is vain, The pulse of the heart, the plot of the brain, That striveth beyond the laws that live. And is thy… — Euripides Copy Share
There is desire in those who love to hear about their loved ones' pains. — Euripides Copy Share Image
Soon all of you immortals Will be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for? Have you run out… — Euripides Copy Share Image
Quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding iron as well as eye appeal. — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
If Robert Heinlein is more to your taste than George Lucas: “If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for, but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against.” That’s certainly true of me. Over my lifetime, the Republican Party has… — Kevin Drum Copy Share
All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks! — Sade Adu Copy Share Image
It's an appeal as old as America and its presidency: This is an extraordinary country populated by hard-working, big-dreaming, freedom-loving people graced by God… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
I liked wrestling a lot better than boxing. I remember thinking at that time that wrestling was a pure demonstration of strength, which I… — Scott Carpenter Copy Share Image
As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce; it adapts. It does not set forth new models of conduct and sensibility; it imitates. Its rhetoric is without deep appeal; the worship it organizes is without piety. It has become less a revitalization of the… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share
The ascent of any route begins, in dreams at least, the autumn before. Our minds ring, involuntarily, with the alluring names of mountains, aiguilles, faces and ridges, Is it the name itself which is so tempting, or the picture we have of the mountain itself, or does the appeal come from our feeling of the actual process of climbing? All… — Gaston Rebuffat Copy Share
I sometimes find that my family's emphasis on stories, characters, and art that appeals directly to children rather than over their heads to adults… — Mike Berenstain Copy Share Image
Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal. — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
The fact is that there is a profound spiritual hunger in the western world which, for a variety of reasons, its church is no… — Melanie Phillips Copy Share Image
People can talk about punk all they want, but after new wave put that down, metal is the voice of the disenfranchised and that… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
