Joy Quotes

“Be merry; you have cause, so have we all, of joy; for our escape is much beyond our loss . . . . then wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort.”

“Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.— Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts!”

“Thou mak'st me merry: I am full of pleasure; let us be jocund”

“So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies.”

“Merrily, merrily shall I live now,Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.”

“Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands. Curtsied when you have and kissed The wild waves whist, Foot is featly here and there; And, sweet sprites, the burden bear. Ariel's song, scene II, Act I”

“Some glory in their birth , some in their skill , Some in their wealth , some in their bodies' force , Some in their garments, though new-fangled ill; Some in their hawks and hounds , some in their horse ; And every humor hath his adjunct pleasure , Wherein it finds a joy above the rest .”

“To be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour.”

“The violence of either grief or joy, their own enactures with themselves destroy.”

“Seek happy nights to happy days.W”

“What is light, if Sylvia be not seen? What is joy if Sylvia be not by?”

“On the bat’s back I do fly After summer merrily.”

“And all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.”

“As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer.”

“O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy, In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess!”

“Make the upcoming hour overflow with joy, and let pleasure drown the brim.”

“How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?”

“Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.”

“Good old grandsire ... we shall be joyful of thy company.”

“To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.”

“To die, is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her, Is self from self: a deadly banishment! What light is light, if Silvia be not seen? What joy is joy, if Silvia be not by? Unless it be to think that she is by, And feed upon the shadow of perfection. Except I be by Silvia in the night, There is no music in the nightingale; Unless I look on Silvia in the day, There is no day for me to look upon; She is my essence, and I leave to be, If I be not by her fair influence Foster'd, illumin'd, cherish'd, kept alive.”

“Come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy, That one short minute gives me in her sight”

“In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.”

“The earth laughs in flowers.”

“Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy.”