- A thing of beauty is a joy till sunrise. Harvey Fierstein
- Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare. Ed Asner
- Entertainment is the devil’s substitute for joy Leonard Ravenhill
- Joys are bubble-like–what makes them bursts them too. Philip James Bailey
- If ignorance is bliss, why aren’t more people jumping up and down for joy?
- My grandfather used to make home movies and edit out the joy. Richard Lewis
- Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. Swedish proverb
- Half the world does not know the joy of wearing cotton underwear. Phil Gramm
- Have a smile for breakfast, you’ll be shitting joy by lunch. Joe Abercrombie
- You have to sniff out joy, keep your nose to the joy-trail. Buffy Sainte-Marie
- In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. W. H. Auden
- One of the advantages of being disorganized is the joy of discovery. A. A. Milne
- Were kisses all the joys in bed one woman would another wed. William Shakespeare
- I too have known joy and sadness, and, on the whole, I prefer joy. Ashleigh Brilliant
- The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others. Doug Larson
- Half the joys and half the sorrows of this world are discovered in bed. Kathleen Winsor
- Joy and sorrow are like milk and cookies. That’s how well they go together. Neil Gaiman
- Christmas: A warm cheery two-month festival that celebrates the joy of retail merchandise.
- Some people bring joy wherever they go, and some people bring joy whenever they go. Mark Twain
- Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance. Alan Dean Foster
- The human being places sexual intercourse above all other joys, but leaves it out of his heaven. Mark Twain
- The preacher will preach his farewell message after which the choir will sing “Break Forth With Joy”. Church Bulletin
- Love’s pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices. David Mitchell
- Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it’s like to be 12 years old. Joyce Maynard
- That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria! Bill Watterson
- Showing joy by jumping up and down and clapping goes away at some point between pre-school and being old enough to go to orgies. Dana Gould
- There is nothing in nature quite so joyful as the very young and silly lamb – odd that it should develop into that dull and sober animal the sheep. Esther Meynell
- And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves ‘It’s pretty, but is it Art?’ Rudyard Kipling
- Visiting is a pleasure; being visited is usually a mixed or ambivalent joy. … The visitor can always go home; the visitee is already home, trapped like a rat in a drainpipe. Barbara Holland
