#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.”

“Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.”

“Look what thy soul holds dear, imagine itTo lie that way thou goest, not whence thou com'st.Suppose the singing birds musicians,The grass whereon thou tread'st the presence strewed,The flowers fair ladies, and thy steps no moreThan a delight measure or a dance;For gnarling sorrow hath less power to biteThe man that mocks at it and sets it light.”

“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. And let my liver rather heat with wine, than my heart cool with mortifying groans.”

“My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.”

“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”

“Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight.”

“The world when seen through a little child's eyes, greatly resembles paradise. Happiness is doing with a smile what you have to do anyway. This time, like all time, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.”

“Happy is the house that shelters a friend.”

“My joy is death- Death, at whose name I oft have been afeard, Because I wish'd this world's eternity.”

“You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it may be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday, except as it celebrates real and not pretended joys.”

“I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.”

“When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that.”

“I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!”

“To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.”

“As merry as the day is long.”

“When daffodils begin to peer,With heigh! the doxy, over the dale,Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year;For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale.The white sheet bleaching on the hedge,With heigh! the sweet birds, O, how they sing!Doth set my pugging tooth on edge;For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.”

“A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy ends in the day; it yields no fruit.”

“I drink to the general joy o’ the whole table." Macbeth”

“To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded.”

“He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May.”

“Most friendship is faining, most loving mere folly:Then, heigh-ho, the holly.This life is most jolly.”

“For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.”

“Virtue preserv'd from fell destruction's blast,Led on by heaven, and crown'd with joy at last.”

“Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him a single day. Happier, if he know the solemnity of that relation, and honor its law! He offers himself a candidate for that covenant comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games, where the first- born of the world are the competitors.”

“Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide.”