Quotes About Delight

A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.

He stole glances at the heathen faces of Bodien and Gaylord, the suffering, yet oddly consoled, eyes and mouth of Basellecci, noting the brave enthusiasm of men who had never dreamed of anything very definite, and it occurred to him through the reek of his person that there was only one hope for him, and for all people who had lost, through intelligence, the hope of immortality. "We must love and delight in each other and in ourselves!" he cried.

awakening' drinkers to their optimum creative moments…to be intoxicated is to be inspired."10 It is not uncommon for ancient Chinese poets to have entire series of poems under the rubric, "Written While Drunk," including this one from the Zhang Yue (667 to 730): Once drunk, my delight knows no limits— Even better than before I'm drunk. My movements, my expressions, all turn into dance, And every word out of my mouth turns into a poem!11

People are most similar to God when he is the object of their affection. People should delight in God, as he does in himself.

How weak and little is the light,All the universe of sight,Love and delight,Before the might,If you love it not, of night.

A good secret makes things three times as nice.

I loved it…I simply ate it up.

That had probably been written by a professor. I recognized the professor's characteristic delight at not imparting information.

Un helado es un almuerzo maravilloso cuando se está de celebración.

Even to know that delight, in a perfect world, would be the proper response to life is a simplicity beyond most of us.

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

And when we're living a life of perpetual time famine, we rob ourselves of our ability to experience another key element of the Third Metric: wonder, our sense of delight in the mysteries of the universe, as well as the everyday occurrences and small miracles that fill our lives.

Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in imitation is universal.

'Tis the night — the night Of the grave's delight, And the warlocks are at their play; Ye think that without The wild winds shout, But no, it is they — it is they.

Tis the night—the night Of the grave's delight, And the warlocks are at their play; Ye think that without, The wild winds shout, But no, it is they—it is they!

Among politicians, I would say Sonia Gandhi is not exactly a cartoonist's delight.

I celebrate Christmas with wilful glee.

And I like pygmy goats, because they're just lovely, and ducks.

Fun is good.

I enjoy a good movie, no matter what the genre.

Too much of a good thing is wonderful.

My compositions spring from my sorrows. Those that give the world the greatest delight were born of my deepest griefs.

Those who are born of grief give greatest delight to the outside world.

Frivolous they might be, but the people of Ecbatana at least saw that the world was created for their delight, and as they jumped about in the frigid streams and wasted their money in the crowded bazaars, they came closer to living their lives as the Holy One intended than those who were continually apologizing for their unworthiness and trying to avert the wrath of the One who, had they but known, wishes the world only well.