Joy Quote by Michel de Montaigne Download Open image “We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.” — Michel de Montaigne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Joy Should Sorrow Spread Spread Joy Wisdom
I believe if we can wait long enough that every honorable sorrow will become a kind of joy. — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
O God, take all our sorrows and use them to show us the nature of our joy. — Leslie Weatherhead Copy Share Image
We ought not to have to wait for sorrow before we can appreciate the sweetness of joy. — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
The deeper sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We are not sure of sorrow, And joy was never sure; Today will die tomorrow; Time stoops to no man's lure. — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever;It's loveliness increase;it will never pass into nothingness;but still will keep a bower quiet for us,and… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“When you finally realize your gifts and talents, joy and satisfaction come as you walk in your purpose.” — Sanya Richards-Ross Copy Share Image
When I first started, my message was about joy, but I didn't really have the vocabulary and life experience to fully deliver it. — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The more musical… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Of everything I have done, 'The Archers' always gets the most excitement; there's a sort of uncontrollable joy from fans of the program. — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
Safin, in his way, is very talented. It is a joy to watch them play; it is tennis of a very high quality. — Richard Krajicek Copy Share Image
The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden of Eden… — Daniel K Judd Copy Share Image
I have touched with a sense of art some people-they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to… — Mary Cassatt Copy Share Image
