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the brute will then invite the girl back to his place of dwelling, where he will achieve insertion. He will experience delights so heavenly, so incredible... delights, that have been so cruelly denied to me – Elliot Rodger	added by anonymous 2 years ago
A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in Airing his own opinions. – Proverb	added by anonymous 4 years ago
Arms observe no bounds; nor can the wrath of the sword, once drawn, be easily checked or stayed; war delights in blood. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca	added by Normando 4 years ago
...Enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man, acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter - with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people? Still one thing more... a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities. – Thomas Jefferson	added by Normando 4 years ago
Al-Ula will be a living heritage, nature and cultural museum -- a destination that both surprises and delights. – Al Madani	Found on CNN 5 years ago
When I was Michael Cimarusti, at Water Grill and Spago, I was in the process of becoming increasingly aware of these things, but now, I mean you have to be sleeping under a rock not to know that when some food blogger in Tokyo posts photos and writes about the delights of eating Pacific bluefin tuna -- which is down to 4 % of its historic biomass -- that person is not doing the world any favors. – Michael Cimarusti	Found on CNN 8 years ago
President Obama's decision delights us. – Ricardo Patino	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings -- woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star. – Charles Baudelaire	added by anonymous 9 years ago
What we all hope in reaching for a book, is to meet a man of our own heart, to experience tragedies and delights which we ourselves lack the courage to invite, to dream dreams which will render life more hallucinating, perhaps also to discover a philosophy of life which will make us more adequate in meeting the trials and ordeals which beset us. To merely add to our store of knowledge or improve our culture, whatever that may mean, seems worthless to me. – Henry Miller	added by anonymous 10 years ago
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation. – François Fénelon	added by anonymous 10 years ago
No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society. – Jeremy Taylor	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers. – Walt Whitman	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Beside the streamlet seated, mark how life glides on: That sign, how swift each moment goes, to me?s enough. Behold this world?s delights, and view its various pains: If not to you, the joy it shows to me?s enough. – Hafiz	added by anonymous 12 years ago
The son who delights his father by his good actions; the wife who seeks only her husband?s good; the friend who is the same in prosperity and adversity?these three things are the reward of virtue. – Bhartrihari	added by anonymous 12 years ago
An ass will with his long ears fray The flies that tickle him away; But man delights to have his ears Blown maggots in by flatterers. – Butler	added by anonymous 12 years ago
The faculty of imagination is the great spring of human activity, and the principle source of human improvement. As it delights in presenting to the mind scenes and characters more perfect than those which we are acquainted with, it prevents us from ever being completely satisfied without present condition, or with our past attainments, and engages us continually in the pursuit of some untried enjoyment, or of some ideal excellence. Destroy this faculty, and the condition of man will become as stationary as that of the brutes. – Dugald Stewart	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, control youth, and delights old age. – Firmianus Lactantius	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked. – Ovid	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven. – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 13 years ago
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. – Kahlil Gibran	added by anonymous 13 years ago
One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going. – J.B. Priestley	added by anonymous 13 years ago
O Winter ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturb'd Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know. – William Cowper	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality. – Franoise d'Aubign Maintenon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Ardeat ipsa licet, tormentia gaudet amantis. (Though she may herself burn, she delights in her lover's torment.) – Juvenal	added by anonymous 14 years ago

the brute will then invite the girl back to his place of dwelling, where he will achieve insertion. He will experience delights so heavenly, so incredible... delights, that have been so cruelly denied to me

– Elliot Rodger

added by anonymous
2 years ago

A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in Airing his own opinions.

– Proverb

added by anonymous
4 years ago

Arms observe no bounds; nor can the wrath of the sword, once drawn, be easily checked or stayed; war delights in blood.

– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

added by Normando
4 years ago

...Enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man, acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter - with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people? Still one thing more... a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.

– Thomas Jefferson

added by Normando
4 years ago

Al-Ula will be a living heritage, nature and cultural museum -- a destination that both surprises and delights.

– Al Madani

Found on CNN
5 years ago

When I was Michael Cimarusti, at Water Grill and Spago, I was in the process of becoming increasingly aware of these things, but now, I mean you have to be sleeping under a rock not to know that when some food blogger in Tokyo posts photos and writes about the delights of eating Pacific bluefin tuna -- which is down to 4 % of its historic biomass -- that person is not doing the world any favors.

– Michael Cimarusti

Found on CNN
8 years ago

President Obama's decision delights us.

– Ricardo Patino

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings -- woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star.

– Charles Baudelaire

added by anonymous
9 years ago

What we all hope in reaching for a book, is to meet a man of our own heart, to experience tragedies and delights which we ourselves lack the courage to invite, to dream dreams which will render life more hallucinating, perhaps also to discover a philosophy of life which will make us more adequate in meeting the trials and ordeals which beset us. To merely add to our store of knowledge or improve our culture, whatever that may mean, seems worthless to me.

– Henry Miller

added by anonymous
10 years ago

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.

– François Fénelon

added by anonymous
10 years ago

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

– Jeremy Taylor

added by anonymous
10 years ago

I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.

– Walt Whitman

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Beside the streamlet seated, mark how life glides on: That sign, how swift each moment goes, to me?s enough. Behold this world?s delights, and view its various pains: If not to you, the joy it shows to me?s enough.

– Hafiz

added by anonymous
12 years ago

The son who delights his father by his good actions; the wife who seeks only her husband?s good; the friend who is the same in prosperity and adversity?these three things are the reward of virtue.

– Bhartrihari

added by anonymous
12 years ago

An ass will with his long ears fray The flies that tickle him away; But man delights to have his ears Blown maggots in by flatterers.

– Butler

added by anonymous
12 years ago

The faculty of imagination is the great spring of human activity, and the principle source of human improvement. As it delights in presenting to the mind scenes and characters more perfect than those which we are acquainted with, it prevents us from ever being completely satisfied without present condition, or with our past attainments, and engages us continually in the pursuit of some untried enjoyment, or of some ideal excellence. Destroy this faculty, and the condition of man will become as stationary as that of the brutes.

– Dugald Stewart