Excess of delight
Palls appetite. [ Proverb ]
The rainbow in the morning
Is the shepherd's warning;
The rainbow at night
Is the shepherd's delight. [ Proverb ]
A rainbow in the morning
Is the Shepherd's warning;
But a rainbow at night
Is the Shepherd's delight. [ Old Weather Rhyme ]
These studies are our delight. [ Motto ]
Too surely, every setting day,
Some lost delight we mourn. [ Keble ]
Contentment, parent of delight. [ Green ]
Let dogs delight to bark and bite.
For God hath made them so;
Let bears and lions growl and fight.
For 'tis their nature to. [ Isaac Watts ]
Riches, rightly used, breed delight. [ Plautus ]
Say, what other metre is it
Than the meeting of the eyes?
Nature poureth into nature
Through the channels of that feature
Riding on the ray of sight,
Fleeter far than whirlwinds go.
Or for service, or delight,
Hearts to hearts their meaning show. [ Emerson ]
Among unequals what society
Can sort, what harmony or true delight? [ Milton ]
O freedom, first delight of human kind! [ Dryden ]
A cheerful life is what the Muses love;
A soaring spirit is their prime delight. [ Wordsworth ]
What sweet delight a quiet life affords. [ Drummond ]
A verse may find him whom a sermon flies
And turn delight into a sacrifice. [ George Herbert ]
Women were made to give our eyes delight;
A female sloven is an odious sight. [ Young ]
In this fool's paradise he drank delight. [ Crabbe ]
The brave love mercy, and delight to save. [ Gay ]
Blessings be with them, and eternal praise.
Who gave us nobler loves and nobler cares,
The poets, who on earth have made us heirs
Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays. [ Wordsworth ]
Danger and delight grow both upon one stock. [ Proverb ]
Yet is there one more cursed than they all.
That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie,
Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall,
Turning all love's delight to misery.
Through fear of losing his felicity. [ Spenser ]
Who doth not feel, until his failing sight
Faints into dimness with its own delight,
His changing cheek, his sinking heart confess.
The might - the majesty of Loveliness? [ Byron ]
Wisdom's path is steep; but, gained the height,
The Muse's gifts will fill you with delight. [ Onestes ]
Books should to one of these four ends conduce,
For wisdom, piety, delight, or use. [ Sir John Denham ]
Heaven, the perfection of all that can
Be said, of thought, riches, delight or harmony.
Health, beauty; and all those not subject to
The waste of time, but in their height eternal. [ Shirley ]
That was his sole delight and solace in his woe. [ Virgil ]
Hear the mellow wedding bells.
Golden bells!
What a world of happiness their harmony foretells
Through the balmy air of night
How they ring out their delight!
From the molten golden notes,
And all in tune
What a liquid ditty floats
To the turtle-dove that listen? while she gloats
On the moon! [ Poe ]
Oh! liberty, thou goddess, heavenly bright.
Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight!
Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign.
And smiling plenty, leads thy wanton train;
Eased of her load, subjection grows more light
And poverty looks cheerful in the sight;
Thou makest the gloomy face of nature gay,
Giv'st beauty to the sun, and pleasure to the day. [ Addison ]
Let me have music dying, and I seek no more delight. [ Keats ]
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we quote. [ Emerson ]
What studies please, what most delight.
And fill men's thoughts, they dream them over at night. [ Creech ]
Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. [ Bacon ]
Call me pet names, dearest! Call me thy bird.
That flies to thy breast at one cherishing word,
That folds its wild wings there, ne'er dreaming of flight.
That tenderly sings there in loving delight!
Oh! my sad heart keeps pining for one fond word,
Call me pet names, dearest! Call me thy bird! [ Mrs. Osgood ]
As we are poetical in our natures, so we delight in fable. [ Hazlitt ]
+{Instruction} Seek to, delight, that they may mend mankind.
And, while they captivate, inform the mind. [ Cowper ]
Few are so wicked an to take delight in crimes unprofitable. [ Dryden ]
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight. [ Joubert ]
Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save. [ Gay ]
Friendship is the gift of heaven, and the delight of great souls. [ Voltaire ]
In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight. [ Emerson ]
To business that we love, we rise betimes and go to it with delight. [ William Shakespeare ]
In the recognition of beauty, the eye takes the most delight in color. [ Addison ]
A sip is the most that mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight. [ A. B. Alcott ]
To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
Some are unwisely liberal; and more delight to give presents than to pay debts. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight? [ Seneca ]
For beauty is the bait which with delight doth man allure, for to enlarge his kind. [ Spenser ]
One can journey with delight in the ideal, but one reposes well only in the reality. [ Vieillard ]
Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble. [ Epictetus ]
Might but the sense of moral evil be as strong in me as is my delight in external beauty! [ Dr. Arnold ]
If there's delight in love, 'tis when I see the heart which others bleed for bleed for me. [ Congreve ]
As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. [ Alcibiades ]
There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune. [ Cicero ]
I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others. [ Burke ]
Revenge is barren of itself; itself is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its saiety, despair. [ Schiller ]
The love of reading enables a man to exchange the wearisome hours of life which come to every one for hours of delight. [ Montesquieu ]
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age. [ Isaac Disraeli ]
Thou awakest us to delight in Thy praise; for Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless until it repose in Thee. [ Augustine ]
The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence. [ George Eliot ]
The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties. [ Addison ]
Capable of all kinds of devotion, and of all kinds of treason, raised to the second power, woman is at once the delight and the terror of man. [ Amiel ]
Music is a source of surpassing delight to many minds. From its power to soothe the feelings and modify the passions, it seems desirable to understand it. [ Mrs. Sigourney ]
There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not, sooner or later, responded. [ Lowell ]
Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. The more intense the delight in the presence of the object, the more poignant must be the impression of the absence. [ James Martineau ]
The misfortune is that when man has found honey, he enters upon the feast with an appetite so voracious that he usually destroys his own delight by excess and satiety. [ Knox ]
There is more or less of pathos in all true beauty. The delight it awakens has an indefinable, and, as it were, luxurious sadness, which is perhaps one element of its might. [ Tuckerman ]
What furniture can give such finish to a room as a tender woman's face? and is there any harmony of tints that has such stirrings of delight as the sweet modulations of her voice? [ George Eliot ]
He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is. [ Goethe ]
I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think; but if you ask me how I dare say so, or why it is so, I am the most helpless of men. [ Emerson ]
The virtuous delight in the virtuous; but he who is destitute of the practice of virtue delighteth not in the virtuous. The bee retireth from the forest to the lotus, whilst the frog is destitute of shelter. [ Hitopadesa ]
For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. 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 it is universal. [ Aristotle ]
I never yet heard man or woman much abused, that I was not inclined to think the better of them; and to transfer any suspicion or dislike to the person who appeared to take delight in pointing out the defects of a fellow-creature. [ Jane Porter ]
We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws, merely because it has not the power of making a noise; for we presume that the most philosophic of anglers would hardly delight in catching shrieking fish. [ Leigh Hunt ]
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such excess that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art. [ Emerson ]
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 that of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner. [ Seneca ]
Gallantry to women (the sure road to their favor) is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute towards it. The slightest indifference with regard to them, or distrust of yourself is equally fatal. [ Hazlitt ]
It is wonderful indeed to consider how many objects the eye is fitted to take in at once, and successively in an instant, and at the same time to make a judgment of their position, figure, and color. It watches against our dangers, guides our steps, and lets in all the visible objects, whose beauty and variety instruct and delight. [ Steele ]
What delight will it afford to renew the sweet counsel we have taken together, to recount the toils, the combats, and the labor of the way, and to approach, not the house, but the throne of God, in company, in order to join in the symphonies of heavenly voices, and lose ourselves amidst the splendor and fruitions of the beatific vision. [ Robert Hall ]
It is not merely the multiplicity of tints, the gladness of tone, or the balminess of the air which delight in the spring; it is the still consecrated spirit of hope, the prophecy of happy days yet to come; the endless variety of nature, with presentiments of eternal flowers which never shall fade, and sympathy with the blessedness of the ever-developing world. [ Novalis ]
Association is the delight of the heart not less than of poetry. Alison observes that an autumn sunset, with its crimson clouds, glimmering trunks of trees, and wavering tints upon the grass, seems scarcely capable of embellishment. But if in this calm and beautiful glow the chime of a distant bell steal over the fields, the bosom heaves with the sensation that Dante so tenderly describes. [ Willmott ]
The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge - conscious, rather, of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him. [ Ruskin ]
Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear dulness to maturity, and to glory in the vigor and luxuriance of her chance productions. She scatters the seeds of genius to the winds, and though some may perish among the stony places of the world, and some may be choked by the thorns and brambles of early adversity, yet others will now and then strike root even in the clefts of the rock, struggle bravely up into sunshine, and spread over their sterile birthplace all the beauties of vegetation. [ Washington Irving ]