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Quotes About Joy

If money makes the world go round, it's humor that keeps it from spinning out of control.
~ Craig Kimberley
Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt.
~ Judith Olney
Ice cream is happiness on a cone, with sprinkles.
~ Terri Guillemets
E. W. Ansted hasn't forgot how to laugh and how to play. His is the heart that never grows old... You must get just enough play-spell mixed up in the work every day, so nothing becomes monotonous.
~ Elbert Hubbard
My childhood may be over, but that doesn't mean playtime is.
~ Ron Olson
To live in joys that once have been, To put the cold world out of sight, And deck life's drear and barren scene With hues of rainbow light... Ye golden hours of life's young spring, Of innocence, of love and truth! Bright beyond all imagining, Thou fairy dream of youth! I'd give all wealth that years have piled, The slow result of life's decay, To be once more a little child For one bright summer day.
~ Lewis Carroll, "Solitude"
A kind word is like a spring day.
~ Russian proverb
'Make somebody happy today!' Each morning that motto repeat, and life that was gloomy and gray at once becomes pleasant and sweet.
~ Walt Mason
Fly back again, back again, Lady-bird dear! Thy neighbors will welcome thee merrily here...
~ Author unknown, 1800s
O lady-bird, O lady-bird, With the summer coming fresh! And the April hopes and buttercups, Knitting finely, in a mesh Of sunny-shining rays, For the samite-robèd days, For my heart with all your beauty stirr'd, O lady-bird, my lady-bird!
~ Thomas Ashe, 1800s
Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit.
~ Author Unknown
What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.
~ Yiddish Proverb
A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable.
~ H.L. Mencken
They let their laughs bounce back and forth between them.
~ Caron Levis, Ida, Always, 2016
Laughter is therapy for physical pain, emotional pain, and the everyday pain of life.
~ Terri Guillemets
It was not a laugh but merely a loud smile.
~ Author Unknown
If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.
~ Proverb
A good laugh recharges your battery.
~ Author Unknown
When laughter feasts, sadness starves.
~ Terri Guillemets
Laughter is an orgasm triggered by the intercourse of sense and nonsense.
~ Author Unknown
Sometimes I laugh so hard the tears run down my leg.
~ Author Unknown
To the art of working well a civilized race would add the art of playing well.
~ George Santayana
...a letter is a joy of earth — it is denied the gods.
~ Emily Dickinson, 1885
...life is a gift to be accepted and returned. Life is a celebration, it is a learning, it is a gift.
~ Tom Brown, Jr.