Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Joy and grief are never far apart. Willmott.

Joy and sorrow / Are to-day and to-morrow. Pr.

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm. Jean Paul.

Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs 30 men of reason. Platen.

Joy, in a changeable subject, must necessarily change as the subject changeth. S. Bern.

Joy is a guest who generally comes uninvited. Schopenhauer.

Joy is a sunbeam between two clouds. Mme. Deluzy.

Joy is as a raiment fine, / Spun of magic threads divine; / Which as you are in act to don, / The wearer and the robe are gone. Sophocles.

Joy is buyable—by forsaking all that a man 35 hath. Ruskin.

Joy is like the ague; one good day between two bad ones. Dan. Pr.