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“While a guy at home is sweating over his income tax and Victory garden, a dogface somewhere is getting great joy out of wiggling his little finger. He does it just to see it move and to prove to himself that he is still alive and able to move it.”
Bill Mauldin (1921–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Praise they that will times past; I joy to see Myself now live: this age best pleaseth me.”
Robert Herrick (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hark, the glad sound! The Savior comes, The Savior promised long; Let every heart exult with joy, And every voice be song!”
Philip Doddridge (1702–1751) said by 1751 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Published 1755, Hymns, "Hark, the Glad Sound", Chambers Dictionary of Quotations, p. 278
“Tho' the world could turn from you, This, at least, I learn from you: Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought, The singer, upward-springing, Is grander than his singing, And tranquil self-sufficing joy illumes the dark of thought. This, at least, you teach me, In a revelation: That gods still snatch, as worthy death, the soul in its aspiration.”
Robert Williams Buchanan (1841–1901) said by 1901 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no joy in man's own doings and choosings.”
George Müller (1805–1898) said by 1898 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is a dark foreboding in thy speech; Thine eyes flash fearfully a moody joy That augurs a new downfall. Whence arise These desperate hopes, that seem to make thee fond Of lowest misery?”
Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849) said by 1849 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With all your music, loud and lustily, With every dainty joy of sight and smell, Prepare a banquet meet to entertain The Lord of Thunder, that hath set you free From old oppression.”
Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849) said by 1849 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A little longer, and thy Heart, Belovèd, Shall beat for ever with a Love divine; And joy so pure, so mighty, so eternal, No creature knows and lives, will then be thine.A little longer yet — and angel voices Shall ring in heavenly chant upon thine ear; Angels and Saints await thee, and God needs thee: Beloved, can we bid thee linger here!”
Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864) said by 1864 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Joy is like restless day; but peace divine Like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, — till perfect Day shall shine Through Peace to Light.”
Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864) said by 1864 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love wakes men, once a lifetime each; They lift their heavy lids, and look; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach, They read with joy, then shut the book.”
Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hark, below, the many-voiced earth, The chanting of the old religious trees, Rustle of far-off waters, woven sounds Of small and multitudinous lives awake, Peopling the grasses and the pools with joy, Uttering their meaning to the mystic night!”
William Vaughn Moody (1869–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.”
Robert Pollok (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no sorrow like a love denied Nor any joy like love that has its will.”
Richard Hovey (1864–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh! somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright, The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light, And somewhere men are laughing and somewhere children shout; But there is no joy in Mudville — mighty Casey has "struck out.”
Ernest Thayer (1863–1940) said by 1940 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And all of what little joy in the world Seemed suddenly simple and endlessly mine.”
Aaron Weiss wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Come on shore, Where no joy dies till Love hath gotten more.”
William Browne (1590–1645) said by 1645 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love divine, all loves excelling, Joy of heaven to earth come down, Fix in us thy humble dwelling, All thy faithful mercies crown; Jesu, thou art all compassion, Pure unbounded love thou art, Visit us with thy salvation, Enter every trembling heart.”
Charles Wesley (1707–1788) said by 1788 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hymn IX" of "Hymns for those that seek and those who have redemption in the blood of Jesus Christ", in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley Vol 4. (1868), edited by G Osborn, p. 219
“O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you. Angels are painted fair, to look like you: There ’s in you all that we believe of heaven,— Amazing brightness, purity, and truth, Eternal joy, and everlasting love.”
Thomas Otway (1652–1685) first seen 1682 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Venice Preserv'd (1682), Act i. Sc. 1.
“When, like the rising day, Eileen Aroon! Love sends his early ray, Eileen Aroon! What makes his dawning glow Changeless through joy and woe? Only the constant know!— Eileen Aroon!”
Gerald Griffin (1803–1840) said by 1840 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Eileen Aroon, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Then Lola Linton came on, slithering like a satin snake amid the tumult of whistling and pounding feet, Lola Linton lascivious, slithering and looting my body, and when she was through, my teeth ached from my clamped jaws and I hated the dirty lowbrow swine around me, shouting their share of a sick joy that belonged to me.”
John Fante (1909–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But the room seemed so poor, pleading for warmth and joy. Vera Rivken's room. She had been nice to Arturo Bandini, and she was poor. I took the small roll from my pocket, peeled off two one dollar bills, and laid them on the table. Then I walked down the stairs, my lungs full of air, elated, my muscles so much stronger than ever before.”
John Fante (1909–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We smoked them down until they burned our fingertips. Then I rolled two more. In the middle of the second it began to come, the floating, the wafting away from the earth, the joy and triumph of a man over space, the extraordinary sense of power.”
John Fante (1909–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“KNOWING YOURSELF means being able to separate the true from the false in yourself - love from emotion, joy from sentiment, Will from desire. No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.”
Barry Long (1926–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whate’er there be of Sorrow I’ll put off till To-morrow, And when To-morrow comes, why then ’T will be To-day and Joy again.”
John Kendrick Bangs (1862–1922) said by 1922 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yes, , there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy.”
Francis Pharcellus Church (1839–1906) said by 1906 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When people thank and tell you how much you've helped them, what they say has nothing to do with you. This is just their way of expressing joy in their own experience. Remember this, too, when people complain or criticize.”
Ken McLeod (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Poems should be memorized, recited, and performed. The sheer joy of the art must be emphasized. The pleasure of performance is what first attracts children to poetry, the sensual excitement of speaking and hearing the words of the poem. Performance was also the teaching technique that kept poetry vital for centuries. Maybe it also holds the key to poetry's future.”
Dana Gioia (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There’s a joy without canker or cark, There’s a pleasure eternally new, ’T is to gloat on the glaze and the mark Of china that’s ancient and blue.”
Andrew Lang (1844–1912) said by 1912 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When the warrior returns, from the battle afar, To the home and the country he nobly defended, O! warm be the welcome to gladden his ear, And loud be the joy that his perils are ended: In the full tide of song let his fame roll along, To the feast-flowing board let us gratefully throng, Where, mixed with the olive, the laurel shall wave, And form a bright wreath for the brows of the brave.”
Francis Scott Key (1779–1843) first seen 1806 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Song" in The Port Folio Vol. 1, No. 1 (11 January 1806), p. 79; also in Poems of the Late Francis Scott Key, Esq. (1857), p. 34.
“I walk as one unclothed of flesh, I wash my spirit clean; I see old miracles afresh, And wonders yet unseen. I will not leave Thee till Thou give Some word whereby my soul may live!I listened — but no voice I heard; I looked — no likeness saw; Slowly the joy of flower and bird Did like a tide withdraw; And in the heaven a silent star Smiled on me, infinitely far.”
Francis William Bourdillon (1852–1921) first seen 1917 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Chantry Of The Cherubim" in The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse (1917) by D. H. S. Nicholson.
“Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.”
Eckhart Tolle (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If there is no joy, ease, or lightness in what you are doing, it does not necessarily mean that you need to change what you are doing. It may be sufficient to change the how. “How” is always more important than “what.” See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it.”
Eckhart Tolle (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Finding that dimension frees you and the world from the suffering you inflict on yourself and others when the mind-made “little me” is all you know and runs your life. Love, joy, creative expansion, and lasting inner peace cannot come into your life except through that unconditioned dimension of consciousness. (Ch 2)”
Eckhart Tolle (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind.”
Eckhart Tolle (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you and allowing that goodness to emerge. If peace is really what you want, then choose peace. The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.”
Eckhart Tolle (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They tell me every day is there Not more nor less than Sunday gay; In shining robes and garments fair The people walk upon their way. One gazes there on castle walls As grand as those of Babylon, A bishop and two generals! What joy to be in Carcassonne! Ah! might I but see Carcassonne!”
Gustave Nadaud (1820–1893) said by 1893 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.”
Bliss Carman (1861–1929) first seen 1903 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: New York Times review of Mr. Carman's Prose; A Volume Of Little Essays By The Canadian Poet. (1903).
“My mind to me a kingdom is; Such perfect joy therein I find That it excels all other bliss That world affords or grows by kind. Though much I want which most men have, Yet still my mind forbids to crave.”
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550–1604) said by 1604 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What though our eyes with tears be wet? The sunrise never failed us yet.The blush of dawn may yet restore Our light and hope and joy once more. Sad soul, take comfort, nor forget That sunrise never failed us yet!”
Celia Thaxter (1835–1894) first seen 1878 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Sunrise Never Failed Us Yet" in Drift-Weed (1878), p. 64
“I know that you observe Christmas Day as you learned it at home. I do not observe it. However, as assistant director of this prison, I allow all the Catholics to observe freely and with some joy this day in this home.”
Odilo Globocnik (1904–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "In Tito's Death Marches and Extermination Camps" - Page 163 - by Joseph Hecimovic, John Prcela - 1962.
“’T is a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught Of cool refreshment, drained by fevered lips, May give a shock of pleasure to the frame More exquisite than when nectarean juice Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.”
Thomas Noon Talfourd (1795–1854) said by 1854 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My lovely living boy, My hope, my hap, my love, my life, my joy.”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) said by 1590 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Du Bartas
“Our policy demands for each of us social equality and equal opportunity... Equal educational facilities, the same opportunities, and a fair start for all together. And the joy of living must not be restricted, limited or confined by any measures whatsoever. The Express is allied to the group of human beings who like to have a good time.”
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook (1879–1964) first seen 1938 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Article in the Daily Express (8 March 1938), quoted in A. J. P. Taylor, Beaverbrook (1972), p. 376
“Among us on the earth there is His memory; but in the Kingdom of heaven His very Presence. That Presence is the joy of those who have already attained to beatitude; the memory is the comfort of us who are still wayfarers, journeying towards the Fatherland.”
Bernard of Clairvaux (1091–1153) said by 1153 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Gude nicht, and joy be wi' you a'.”
Carolina Nairne (1766–1845) said by 1845 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Lady Nairne
“From the entrenchment of special privileges in tax favoritism; from the waste of idle lands to the joy of useful labor; from the prejudice based on race and sex; from the loneliness of the aging poor and the despair of the neglected sick: come home, America.”
George McGovern (1922–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am — your Bliss I am — your Smile I am — your Joy I am — your Rest I am — your Strength I am — your Valor I am — your Wisdom”
Nicholas Roerich (1874–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Joy may be a miser, But Sorrow’s purse is free.”
Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903) said by 1903 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I would not, if I could, give up the memory of the joy I have had in books for any advantage that could be offered in other pursuits or occupations. Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer, what a new discovery is to the scientific student.”
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (1838–1912) said by 1912 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Joy and Temperance and Repose Slam the door on the doctor's nose.”
Friedrich von Logau (1604–1655) first seen 1654 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The best Medicine. (Sinngedichte, I, 4, 41, published c. 1654, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow).