All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it

Quote by Eugene Field

Topics: Joy Quotes

Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous...

Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous...

Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous...

Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous...

Here we have a baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair...

Here we have a baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair...

He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to...

He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to...

I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance. Play isn't...

I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance. Play isn't...

Give a man love, and he will be happy for a time. Teach a man...

Give a man love, and he will be happy for a time. Teach a man...

To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less...

To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less...

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide...

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide...

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is

One joy shatters a hundred griefs

One joy shatters a hundred griefs

Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all...

Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all...

Payday came and with it beer

Payday came and with it beer

The joy I felt as the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to...

The joy I felt as the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to...

Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.

Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.

So many people are waiting for their happiness to come. It's not here yet, but...

So many people are waiting for their happiness to come. It's not here yet, but...

Praises reap not! Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not!

Praises reap not! Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not!

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word-excellence. To know how to...

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word-excellence. To know how to...

Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all...

Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all...

In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays,...

In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays,...

Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.