Quotes About Joy

A man of gladness seldom falls into madness.

Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.

He who sings frightens away his ills.

A cheerful look makes a dish a feast

A good laugh is sunshine in a house.

A wise son maketh a glad father.

A child's a plaything for an hour.

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.

To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

We must have the courage to be happy.

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much the master of the world as he who is ready to die.

On with the dance! Let joy be unconfin'd; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet.

Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe.

Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.

For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth.

You will suffer and you will hurt. You will have joy and you will have peace.

Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys. For they are moments when something new has entered into us, something unknown.

A man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry.

Come, ye saints, look here and wonder, See the place where Jesus lay; He has borne our sins away; Joyful tiding, Yes, the Lord has risen today.

"Christ the Lord is risen today," Sons of men and angels say. Raise your joys and triumphs high; Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply.

A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity.

The true spirit of delight, the exultation, the sense of being more than Man which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

A sense of wrongdoing is an enhancement of pleasure.