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Letter "L" » lively
«Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed»
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
| About:
Dating,
Men and Women,
Wishes,
Women
| Keywords:
generous, husbands, livelier, lively, obedient
«We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the same affection and indulgence. The rest I look upon as a mere crowd, lively or sad, loyal or corrupt, from whom there is nothing to be expected but fleeting emotions, either pleasant or unpleasant, which leave no trace behind them.»
Author: Sarah Bernhardt
(Actress)
| Keywords:
absolve, absolved, corrupt, fleeting, indulgence, indulgences, Leave No Trace, lively, look upon, loyal, trace, unpleasant
«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.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
| Keywords:
artists, compose, delicate, delights, divinity, enervated, enervating, enriching, evening star, female, flow, fortunes, human species, in general, jewels, lasting, livelier, lively, philosophical, poets, species, sufferings, tend, The Source
«This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us: / To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt, / Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.»
«To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, / Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.»
«Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| Keywords:
description, Great A, lively, well-chosen
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