William Cowper Quotes

Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys: Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours.

William Cowper

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• When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • People
  • Great
  • Joy

• We never thought 'Say Something' would be a holiday song. I'm still surprised that it's resonating at this time of year. Maybe that's why it's working so well - it balances out all the joy.

  

  Ian Axel
  • Time
  • Why
  • Song

• I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Like
  • Need
  • Hours

• Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Joy

• Nothing can really prepare you for you the sheer overwhelming experience of what it means to become a mother. It is full of complex emotions of joy, exhaustion, love, and worry, all mixed together.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Mother

• I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Life
  • Kind
  • Mom

• We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

  

  Walter Anderson
  • Love
  • Joy
  • Trust

• When I don't plumb the depths or the opportunities of each day, I don't have joy.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Day
  • Joy
  • Opportunities

• A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same road - you simply have to go a little further down the track. That has not been my experience.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Experience
  • Joy

• People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don't understand why they find me so annoying but they do. It is pity, but that is how it is.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Annoying
  • Challenging

• When meeting difficult situations, one should dash forward bravely and with joy.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Joy
  • Forward
  • Meeting

• I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, 'Oh! Will you look at that?' Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary life. You don't look for pictures. Your pictures are looking for you.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Life
  • Love
  • Joy

• I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Joy
  • Sometimes
  • Wonder

• It was really an easy decision for me to be a part of the Lakers. It's priceless. It is one of the few places where I truly get lost in the joy of the moment of that game. All of the stresses and all the responsibilities are gone.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Game
  • Lost
  • Joy

• I know the joy of skating on a clear cold day. I know the joy of getting off a perfect drive in golf. I know the delight of a fine meal after a long walk. These are real and wholesome, but all of them put together can not approach the thrill of ridding yourself of fear!

  

  Vash Young
  • Long
  • Real
  • Together

• I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Think
  • Joy
  • Years

• And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Remember
  • Funny
  • Joy

• I'm working over 80 hours a week and have to keep on track.

  

  Carl J. Lindner, Jr.
  • Working
  • Week
  • Hours

• Even when I'm just sitting at my desk, I have to get up every twenty minutes or so and walk around, walk around, walk around, and then I can go back to the page. I can't just sit there for hours at a time. Language comes out of the body as much as the mind.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Mind
  • Language
  • Body

• Mom's always telling me to smile and hoping I'll turn into a smiley person, which, to be honest, is kind of annoying.

  

  Rebecca Stead
  • Persons
  • Honest
  • Annoying

• Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Time
  • Loyalty

• Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Life
  • Work
  • Sides

• The most profound reason... why the metropolis conduces to the urge for the most individual personal existence... appears to me to be the following: the development of modern culture is characterized by the preponderance of what one may call the 'objective spirit' over the 'subjective spirit.'

  

  Georg Simmel
  • Why
  • May
  • Culture

• Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys: Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours.

  

  William Cowper
  • Joy
  • Hours
  • Annoying