Delight Quotes - Page 25

Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature: delight hath a joy in it either permanent or present; laughter hath only a scornful tickling.

Philip Sidney

Laughter, Joy, Tickling

Sir Philip Sidney (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness!

Philip Sidney

Sweet, Nature, Solitude

Sir Philip Sidney (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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Many a man has a kind of a kaleidoscope, where the bits of broken glass are his own merits and fortunes; and they fall into harmonious arrangements, and delight him, often most mischievously and to his ultimate detriment; but they are a present pleasure.

Arthur Helps

Fall, Men, Glasses

Arthur Helps (1873). “Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon”, p.25

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A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.

Anna Brownell Jameson

Mind, Prey, Cunning

Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.80

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Look what thy soul holds dear, imagine it
To lie that way thou goest, not whence thou com'st.
Suppose the singing birds musicians,
The grass whereon thou tread'st the presence strewed,
The flowers fair ladies, and thy steps no more
Than a delight measure or a dance;
For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite
The man that mocks at it and sets it light.

William Shakespeare

Lying, Flower, Men

William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.231, Cengage Learning EMEA

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The delights of lust terminate in languishment and dejection; the object thou burnest for nauseates with satiety, and no sooner hadst thou possessed it, but thou wert weary of its presence.

Robert Dodsley

Lust, Satiety, Weary

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It is the prowess of scholars that meetings bring delight and departures leave memories.

Thiruvalluvar

Memories, Learning, Departure

"Tirukkuṛaḷ". Religious text, 1812.

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Surely knowledge of the natural world, knowledge of the human condition, knowledge of the nature and dynamics of society, knowledge of the past so that one may use it in experiencing the present and aspiring to the future--all of these, it would seem reasonable to suppose, are essential to an educated man. To these must be added another--knowledge of the products of our artistic heritage that mark the history of our esthetic wonder and delight.

Jerome Bruner

Education, Past, Men

Jerome Seymour Bruner (1979). “On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand”, p.122, Harvard University Press

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Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and sublime conceptions. The soul then tastes the purest and most refined delight, and almost loses the idea of existence in the intellectual pleasure it receives. The mind on every motion darts through space into eternity; and raised, in its free enjoyment of its powers by its own enthusiasm, strengthens itself in the habitude of contemplating the noblest subjects, and of adopting the most heroic pursuits.

Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Ideas, Space, Fire

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Cold Mountain is hidden in white clouds It's peaceful to be cut off from the busy world I use dry grass for cushions in my mountain home My only light is the round moon My bed is the rock beside the green pool Tigers and deer are my companions I delight in this happy peaceful life Forever beyond the world of men

Hanshan

Home, Cutting, Men

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As for me, I delight in the every day Way Among mist-wrapped vines and rocky caves Here in the wilderness I am completely free With my friends, the white clouds, idling forever There are roads, but they do not reach the world Since I am mindless, who can rouse my thoughts On a bed of stone I sit, alone in the night While a round moon climbs up Cold Mountain

Hanshan

Moon, Night, Clouds

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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.

Seneca the Younger

Difficulty, Has Beens

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That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded.

Seneca the Younger

Disregarded

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You know I am given to antiquarian and genealogical pursuits. An old family letter is a delight to my eyes. I can prowl in old trunks of letters by the day with undiminished zest.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Family, Eye, Zest

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True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner.

Seneca the Younger

Friends, True Friend, World

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Men of Science would do well to talk plain English. The most abstruse questions can very well be discussed in our own tongue ... I make a particular appeal to the botanists, who appear to delight in troublesome words.

Oliver Lodge

Men, Tongue, Plain English

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Reading is a stout-hearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring delights of life, equal to a home run, a slam-dunk, or breaking the four-minute mile.

Irving Stone

Running, Reading, Home

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There must be a law if there is to be liberty. Try to play a piano and you will run into laws as fixed as the decrees of the Medes and Persians. But through those statutes you reach the songs, drudgery leads to delight. The law of Christ brings the liberty of Christ. Keep His statutes, and they become songs. The other side of commandment is conquest. What seems restraint to the outsider means release to you.

Adrian Rogers

Running, Song, Mean

Adrian Rogers (2002). “The Incredible Power of Kingdom Authority: Getting an Upper Hand on the Underworld”, p.17, B&H Publishing Group

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Poesy is a beauteous damsel, chaste, honourable, discreet, witty, retired, and who keeps herself within the limits of propriety. She is a friend of solitude; fountains entertain her, meadows console her, woods free her from ennui, flowers delight her; in short, she gives pleasure and instruction to all with whom she communicates.

Miguel de Cervantes

Witty, Flower, Giving

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There was never a man born so wise or good, but one or more companions came into the world with him, who delight in his faculty, and report it. I cannot see without awe, that no man thinks alone and no man acts alone, but the divine assessors who came up with him into life,--now under one disguise, now under another,--like a police in citizen's clothes, walk with him, step for step, through all kingdoms of time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wise, Greatness, Men

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.435

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The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game of life we play, covers, under what seem foolish details, principles that astonish.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Law, Games, Play

Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.101, Harvard University Press

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Children of the middle years do not do their learning unaffected by attendant feelings of interest, boredom, success, failure, chagrin, joy, humiliation, pleasure, distress and delight. They are whole children responding in a total way, and what they feel is a constant factor that can be constructive or destructive in any learning situation.

Dorothy H Cohen

Children, Learning, Years

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The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little pleasureto our listeners.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Fear, Vanity, Talking

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I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion.

Jack Kerouac

Rebellion

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Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.

John Owen

Men, Worship

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