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"Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few." »John Masefield
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"Wherever the turkish hoof trods, no grass grows." »Victor Hugo
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"All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh." »Doris Lessing
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"All sanity depends on this that is should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh." »Doris Lessing
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"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit." »Thomas Paine, "Age of Reason"
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"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit." »Thomas Paine
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"Intelligence is nothing without delight." »Paul Claudel
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"Energy is eternal delight." »William Blake
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"Never find your delight in another's misfortune." »Publilius Syrus
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"Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly." »John Owen
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"Danger and delight grow on one stalk." »English Proverb
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"I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion." »Jack Kerouac
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"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition." »Alexander Smith
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"What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them." »Vincent McNabb
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"Alcohol is like a batsman, it takes time to set in, but is a delight afterwards" »Siddharth Astir
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"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight." »Kahlil Gibran
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"To business that we love, we rise betime and go to't with delight." »William Shakespeare
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"I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime." »Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
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"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom." »Robert Frost
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"What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty." »Edmund Spenser
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"You teach your daugthers the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company." »Samuel Johnson
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"What more felicity can fall to creature,
Than to enjoy delight with liberty." »Spenser, Fate of the Butterfly
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"The soul has this proof of its divinity that divine things delight in it." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight." »Desiderius Erasmus
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"Cowards are cruel, but the brave
Love mercy, and delight to save." »John Gay
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"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit." »A. Bronson Alcott
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"Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use." »Sir John Denham
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"Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save." »John Gay
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"We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight." »Barbara Schapiro
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