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 is more divine than sorrow; for joy is bread, and sorrow is medicine. Ward Beecher.

Joy is the best of wine. George Eliot.

Joy is the mainspring in the whole round of universal Nature; joy moves the wheels of the great timepiece of the world; she it is that loosens flowers from their buds, suns from their firmaments, rolling spheres in distant space not seen by the glass of the astronomer. Schiller.

Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud. 40 Coleridge.

Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate. Horace Greely.

Joy must have sorrow; sorrow, joy. Goethe.

Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery. Suckling.

Joy ruled the day and love the night. Dryden.

Joy shared is joy doubled. Goethe. 45

Joy surfeited turns to sorrow. Pr.