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Joys divided are increased. -- J. G. Holland
Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth. -- William Blake
Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs. -- Jean Paul
For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first. -- Daniel Defoe
Joys season'd high, and tasting strong of guilt. -- Edward Young
Joys Are bubble-like--what makes them bursts them too. -- Philip James Bailey
Praises reap not! Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not! -- William Blake
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away. -- Martial
Joys, which we do not know, we do not wish. -- Aaron Hill
Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past. -- James Montgomery
Joys circular fulfillment was so persistent, when I was weak it gave me strength. -- Delano Johnson
Joys come from simple and natural things: mists over meadows, sunlight on leaves, the path of the moon over water. -- Sigurd F. Olson
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note. -- Horace
Joys as winged dreams fly fast, / Why should sadness longer last? / Grief is but a wound to woe; / Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no moe. -- John Fletcher
The Things that never can come back, are several- Childhood-some forms of Hope-the Dead- Though Joys-like Men-may sometimes make a Journey- And still abide-. -- Emily Dickinson
One by one bright gifts from heaven Joys are sent thee here below; Take them readily when given, Ready, too, to let them go. -- Adelaide Anne Procter
Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite. -- William Blake
A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams. -- Simone Weil
Almond Joys are a childhood favorite, but most of us could do without all those grams of sugar, especially when trying to instill healthy habits in our kids. -- Homaro Cantu
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest. -- John Dryden
Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance. -- Robert Blair
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. -- Khalil Gibran
My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses. -- Isabel Allende
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing. -- William Congreve
Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge, and children with special needs inspire a very, very special love. -- Sarah Palin
Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them. -- Greta Garbo
One of the joys of being a grandparent is getting to see the world again through the eyes of a child. -- David Suzuki
One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day. -- Susan Orlean
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and correctly counsel you is priceless. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures. -- Thomas Aquinas
Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind... but as a path for realisation and salvation. -- Ali Akbar Khan
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything. -- Warren G. Harding
Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything. -- Willa Cather
One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what you're looking at is words on a page. -- Rick Yancey
I adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear. -- Giuseppe Verdi
Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes. -- Frederic Chopin
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots. -- Crystal Eastman
It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever. -- Jimmy Carter
The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now. -- Henri Nouwen
There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them. -- Greta Garbo
The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields; they laughed all the time. -- Andrew Shue
Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if such an occasion should never present itself, comfort your mind with this reflection: that, though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least, will not be more than you can bear. -- Anne Bronte
Home joys are blessed of heaven. -- Seneca the Younger
Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs. -- Thomas Fuller
Great joys, like griefs, are silent. -- Shackerley Marmion
Freindships multiply joys and divide griefs -- Henry George Bohn
For lawless joys a bitter ending waits. -- Pindar
Sometimes small things lead to great joys. -- Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows. -- Euripides
There is no greater misery than false joys. -- Bernard of Clairvaux
Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half. -- Francis Bacon
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest. -- John Keats
There are joys which long to be ours -- Henry Ward Beecher
One of the joys about acting is researching. -- William Sanderson
Sorrows must die with the joys they outnumber. -- Friedrich Schiller
May your life be crowded with unexpected joys. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Every parent can imagine the joys of child abuse. -- Mason Cooley
A sailor's joys are as simple as a child's. -- Bernard Moitessier
Many pains are imaginary, but all joys are real. -- Mason Cooley
And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep. -- Philip James Bailey
Everyone longs for love's tense joys and red delights. -- Jane Kenyon
Our sadness is not sad, but our cheap joys. -- Henry David Thoreau
He that fears death loses the joys of life. -- Jan Hus
Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance -- Robert Blair
Why are our joys remembered more bitter than our woes? -- Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes! -- John Milton
We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain. -- Jesse Jackson
Oh, the joys of baseball, manly men in tight pants. -- Carolyn Hart
Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly. -- John Dryden
The joys of the evil flow away like a torrent. -- Jean Racine
Love can transmute all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys. -- William George Jordan
Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys. -- Mark Akenside
Sorrows when shared are less burdensome, though joys divided are increased. -- Bill Vaughan
Do few things but do them well, simple joys are holy. -- Francis of Assisi
The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life -- Ludwig Feuerbach
Bliss in possession will not last; Remembered joys are never past. -- James Montgomery
Don't overlook life's small joys while searching for the big ones. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Who bathes in worldly joys, swims in a world of fears. -- Phineas Fletcher
But life's joys are only joys if they can be shared. -- Ravi Zacharias
Youth's the season made for joys, Love is then our duty. -- John Gay
Miss life's simplest blessings and you'll miss out on life's greatest joys. -- Robin Sharma
The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief. -- Walter Scott
Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance. -- Epicurus
One of the greatest joys in life is watching a child laugh -- Demi Lovato
An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys. -- Vida Dutton Scudder
I think playing music is one of my great joys in life. -- Norah Jones
Quotation brings to many people one of the intensest joys of living. -- Bernard Darwin
Are there any punishments in life but our joys turned against us? -- Elizabeth Bibesco
The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature. -- William Hazlitt
All worldly joys are less than that one joy of doing kindnesses. -- John Wesley
As I have gotten older, I've discovered the joys of being lazy. -- Julie Bowen
Matisse can make you hate your life for its comparatively insipid joys. -- Peter Schjeldahl
Were kisses all the joys in bed, One woman would another wed. -- William Shakespeare
The joy of joys is the person of light but unmalicious humor. -- Emily Post
Were kisses all the joys in bed,/One woman would another wed. -- William Shakespeare
The joys of heaven will surely compensate for the sorrows of earth. -- Charles Spurgeon
Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys. -- Andre Gide
A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future. -- Hosea Ballou
The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss. -- Edward Young
Children...they string our joys, like jewels bright, upon the thread of years. -- Edgar Guest
Songs are so all-encompassing; they're the joys and sorrows and pacing of life. -- Neil Diamond
The right to suffer is one of the joys of a free economy. -- Howard Pyle
Honor, riches, marriage-blessing Long continuance, and increasing, Hourly joys be still upon you! -- William Shakespeare
When bounteous autumn rears her head, he joys to pull the ripened pear. -- John Dryden
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly. -- Martial
She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company. -- Edith Wharton
There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale. -- Charles de Lint
The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils. -- Herman Melville
The joys of fishing are not confined to the hours near the water. -- Herbert Hoover
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. -- Francis Bacon
Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness. -- Pearl S. Buck
Time is a terrible thing because it can erase both joys and pains. -- Gosho Aoyama
We take no pleasure in permitted joys, But what's forbidden is more keenly sought. -- Ovid

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