Quotes About Joy

Women are angels, wooing:Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

'Tis ever commonThat men are merriest when they are from home.

I wish you joy of the worm.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad.

A merrier man,Within the limit of becoming mirth,I never spent an hour's talk withal.

Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud;And after summer evermore succeedsBarren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold:So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.

I am never merry when I hear sweet music.

O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!

Fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.

If it were now to die,'Twere now to be most happy.

Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?Sweets with sweet war not, joy delights in joy.

They laugh that win.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

So part we sadly in this troublous world,To meet with joy in sweet Jerusalem.

Come unto these yellow sands,And then take hands:Curtsied when you have, and kiss'd—The wild waves whist,—Foot it featly here and there.

My crown is in my heart, not on my head;Not deck'd with diamonds and Indian stones,Nor to be seen: my crown is call'd content;A crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.

Laugh yourselves into stitches.

Bless thee, Bottom! bless thee! thou art translated.

They threw their capsAs they would hang them on the horns o' the moon,Shouting their emulation.

From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot, he is all mirth.

How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping!

Hand in hand, with fairy grace, Will we sing, and bless this place.

To purge melancholy.

Happy in that we are not over happy.