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A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.
— Oscar Wilde
Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.
— Sarah Bernhardt
The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.
— Desiderius Erasmus
A sailor's joys are as simple as a child's.
— Bernard Moitessier
indeed, bad news has a way of slithering into good days and making a mockery of complacent joys.
— Imbolo Mbue
Are there any punishments in life but our joys turned against us?
— Elizabeth Bibesco
My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.
— Isabel Allende
One by one bright gifts from heavenJoys are sent thee here below;
Take them readily when given,
Ready, too, to let them go. — Adelaide Anne Procter
The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love.
— Bradley Chicho
It is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.
— Thomas Fuller
Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home, and in doing so we both amplify our joys and find consolation for our sorrows.
— Roger Scruton
I think death is a tremendous adventure- a gateway into a new life, in which you have further powers, deeper joys, and wonderful horizons.
— Leslie Weatherhead
Joys as winged dreams fly fast, / Why should sadness longer last? / Grief is but a wound to woe; / Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no moe.
— John Fletcher
Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones.
— Frederick Tennyson
Sex is Number 1 of my Top-10 joys in retirement. Number 2 is reading How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free. I forgot the other eight.
— Ernie J Zelinski
I had a strange feeling that Fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows.
— Oscar Wilde
If you have never forgiven someone who has hurt you deeply, you are yet to experience one of the joys of sublime living.
— King Samuel Benson
Living does mean accepting the loss of one joy after another, not even joys in her case, mere possibilities of improvement.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Favorite People, Favorite Places,Favorite Memories of the past ...
These are the joys of a lifetime
Those are the things that last — Henry Van Dyke
Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest.
— John Keats
He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower, alike they're needed to the flower; and joys and tears alike are sent to give the soul its nourishment.
— Sarah Fuller Flower Adams
We have made it impossible for children to fall very far - and in so doing, we have robbed them of the joys of climbing high.
— Megan McArdle
He'd planned on finding a miracle, and he'd found one. There were many other joys in store for him today in this newly born world...
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
— Bernard Malamud
Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')
— William Blake
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,Dreaming o'er the joys of night.Sleep, sleep: in thy sleepLittle sorrows sit and weep.
— William Blake
One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature.
— Stephen Daldry
Such, such were the joysWhen we all, girls and boys,
In our youth time were seen
On the Echoing Green. — William Blake
Quotation brings to many people one of the intensest joys of living.
— Bernard Darwin
You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
— Hippocrates
How one suffered for one's children - all their upsets a hurt; all their joys a triumph. 'And
— Deryn Lake
We've got to have forbidden fruit, Or Eden's joys for us are moot.
— Alexander Pushkin
My interest in science started in junior high school where an outstanding science teacher, Mrs. Baumgardner, introduced me to the joys of science.
— Robert H. Grubbs
Until we understand that our grief outweighs a thousand joys, we will never understand what Christianity is all about.
— Herman Melville
Geometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more.
— Akira Yoshizawa
There is no greater misery than false joys.
— Bernard Of Clairvaux
We only need to open our eyes to see the gifts that abound all around us. These are the simple joys in life.
— Genevieve Gerard
I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I've a wife that I love and that loves me; I've all but riches bodily.
— William Blake
The past, rich with it's pains and joys, shuffles before me, relieving the weary dullness of endless days. I rejoice; I agonize.
— Rukhsana Ahmad
Thanks be to God, notonly for 'rivers of endless joys above, but for 'rills of comfort here below.' — Adoniram Judson
Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds that happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
You know not what joys may be stored up for you in the cottage around which grace will plant the roses of content.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Who bathes in worldly joys, swims in a world of fears.
— Phineas Fletcher
The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world it is like operetta in prose
all so flowery and heavenlike. — Marsden Hartley
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
— Eugene Field
Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes ... and whatever lies upon the heart ...
— Francis Bacon
One of the greatest joys in my life was giving a lecture in French at the College de France.
— James Cronin
I was born the same week NASA was founded, so we're the same age and feel some of the same pains, joys, and frustrations.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Single guys can easily simulate some of the joys of marriage simply by installing one of those GPS devices that use a woman's voice.
— Barry Parham
As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.
— William Blake
Christian is staring at us. He's an only child and could never understand the delicate joys of sibling abuse.
— Cynthia Hand
May your heart be mine, may my heart be yours. May your sorrows be mine, may my joys be yours.
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.
— Daniel Defoe
I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.
— Andrew Solomon
One of the most perfect and unfailing joys of life is planting. It is the creative joy felt by God ...
— Candace Wheeler
God left the world unfinished; the pictures unpainted, the songs unsung, and the problems unsolved, that man might know the joys of creation.
— Thomas S. Monson
Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles.
— William Blake
Life is fleeting;your joys make it seem even shorter,
but your sorrows make it seem too long. — Matshona Dhliwayo
The morrow of this day will be eternity; then Jesus will return you a hundred fold the lovely, rightful joys that you are sacrificing for him.
— Therese Of Lisieux
We are all the same inside. We have the same heartaches and joys, the same fears and ambitions. Money doesn't change who we are.
— Colleen Coble
My characters tend to be people who are looking back on a life lived, their joys, their regrets.
— Peter Orner
It is much better to be drawn by the joys of heaven, than driven by the sorrows of earth.
— Charles Henry Mackintosh
Joys divided are increased.
— Josiah Gilbert Holland
Hard by the church stood the public house; so often the two are closely conjoined, honorably sharing both joys and sorrows.
— Jeremias Gotthelf
The deepest joys and blessings in life are associated with family, parenthood, and sacrifice.
— Ezra Taft Benson
I am only serious about 20% of the time; one of the great joys of my life is the fact that I alone know when that is.
— Mark Richards
Here's hoping that your special day Will be more 'happy ever after'
With all the joys of friendship,
Love, fun and laughter — John Walter Bratton
We chase wild dreams and long for all that eludes us, when the greatest joys are within our grasp, if we can only recognize them.
— Ben Sherwood
While it is February one can taste the full joys of anticipation. Spring stands at the gate with her finger on the latch.
— Patience Strong
