Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agnes Repplier

Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.

Charles Spurgeon

If you delight more in God’s gifts than in God Himself, you are practically setting up another God above Him, and this you must never do.

Charles Spurgeon

We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness, nor driven to duty. No, our piety is our pleasure, our hope is our happiness, our duty is our delight.

Charles Baudelaire

What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?

Francis Bacon

The pleasure and delight of knowledge and learning, it far surpasseth all other in nature

William Shakespeare

Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises.

Laurie Colwin

One of the delights of life is eating with friends; second to that is talking about eating. And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends.

Georges Bataille

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

Billy Sunday

We have a God who delights in impossibilities.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

If brandy was made out of sparrows there would soon be no sparrows.

Lauren Oliver

The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped

Evita Peron

I am only a sparrow amongst a great flock of sparrows.

Ethel Waters

I'm not afraid to die. I'm looking forward to it. I know the Lord has His arms wrapped around this big sparrow.

Geoffrey Rush

They were saying, 'Keep this under your hat, but Jack Sparrow's going to die in the second movie.' I went, 'You're kidding me. The fans are going to go berserk.

Mary E. Pearson

I wonder at the weight of a Sparrow.

Tamora Pierce

I swear the sparrows called us ten kinds of idiot when we did it.