Joy

Famous quotes containing the word joy:

“Ye Cupids, droop each little head,
Nor let your wings with joy be spread:
My Lesbia’s favourite bird is dead,
Whom dearer than her eyes she loved.”
—Catullus [Gaius Valerius Catullus] (84–54 B.C.)

“Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“My heart doth joy that yet in all my life
I found no man but he was true to me.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)