Joys Quotes
642 quotes by 502 authors
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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
— Francis Bacon
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A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and…
— Honore de Balzac
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Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment…
— Honore de Balzac
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the…
— Amelia Barr
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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do…
— Robert Benchley
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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
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I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an age where…
— Andre Agassi
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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life,…
— Mitch Albom
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Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable.
— Julie Burchill
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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,…
— Jimmy Carter
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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
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My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.
— Isabel Allende
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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
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My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.
— Mark Twain
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A sailor's joys are as simple as a child's.
— Bernard Moitessier
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Poets and songwriters speak highly of spring as one of the great joys of life in the temperate zone, but in the real world most…
— Barbara Holland
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