Quotes About Joy

I cry at births and not at funerals.

The older you get, I have to say, the funnier you find life. That's the only way to go.

Life doesn't get easier but it does get funnier.

I believe that when people try to live their life at the fullest, there's a certain laughter that comes out of it. The more they try to live their life seriously, the funnier it is.

My experience growing up in London and growing up in a working class background is that when people are down and out, that's when they're probably the funniest. They have to be. That's what they do to cope, to find joy, 'cause they don't feel the joy inside. Or they use humor to keep people out.

I think Matt Shively is one of the funniest humans in the world.

My daughter is the funniest person I know, and I couldn't imagine my life without her.

I still like farts. I still think farts are some of the funniest things.

I just do what I think is funny and what's exciting to me.

Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.

The robbers of time are the past and the future. Man should bless the past, and forget it, if it keeps him in bondage, and bless the future, knowing it has in store for him endless joys, but live fully in the now.

He stands in the street with his arms out to me and a huge grin on his face-Baby! - and I run and I jump up into his arms he presses a stubbly cheek against mine.

He was grotesque, really. But joy radiated from his homespuns when you walked beside him. It welled out; it enveloped you.

Then, happy was the man who carried his liquor well.

The blue jay playing around the cabin means you are going to have plenty of good times and fun. The blue jay is a clown and bounces on the ends of branches and turns flips and teases other birds.

On rigolait tellement qu'on mangeait froid tout le temps

How strange it is that when life is just beginning for us, and when a little happiness comes our way, no warning voice is heard.

A good artist should laugh often!

Advice to Readers Good friends who come to read this book, Strip yourselves first of affectation; Do not assume a pained, shocked look, For it contains no foul infection, Yet teaches you no great perfection, But lessons in the mirthful art, The only subject for my heart. When I see grief consume and rot You, mirth's my theme and tears are not, For laughter is man's proper lot.

Il vaut mieux écrire du rire que des larmes, Parce que le rire est le propre de l'homme. VIVEZ JOYEUX.

Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off and they are nearly always doing it.

As she came closer to him she noticed that there was a clean fresh scent of heather and grass and leaves about him, almost as if he were made of them. She liked it very much and when she looked into his funny face with the red cheeks and round blue eyes she forgot that she had felt shy.

The truth is that when one is still a child-or even if one is grown up- and has been well fed, and has slept long and softly and warm; when one has gone to sleep in the midst of a fairy story, and has wakened to find it real, one cannot be unhappy or even look as if one were; and one could not, if one tried, keep a glow of joy out of one's eyes.

And they both began to laugh over nothing as children will when they are happy together. And they laughed so that in the end they were making as much noise as if they had been two ordinary healthy natural ten-year-old creatures—instead of a hard, little, unloving girl and a sickly boy who believed that he was going to die.