Joyous Quotes

This was a joyous surprise. He works so hard. This year he's been doing dives he has never done before and he's improved so much. - Tim Welsh

This is joyous news for Marc and our family. At the same time, our immediate concern remains with Bob (Woodruff) ... and the entire Woodruff family as we hope and pray for continuing good news about his recovery. - Elizabeth Vargas

This is a joyous occasion of celebration. The entire community became involved in making this happen. I congratulate all partners in this project (and) the citizens of Franklin County who made this happen. - Thad Cochran

They just had such a great time, it was hard to tell them it was time for them to leave. It was joyous. - Kevin Jordan

There was never anything like it before in history. It was a different kind of joyous, happy screaming. - Jo Stafford

There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of former times. They recall the pictures my fancy used to draw in the May morning of life, when as yet I only knew the world through books, and believed it to be all that poets had painted it; and they bring with them the flavour of those honest days of yore, in which, perhaps with equal fallacy, I am apt to think the world was more home-bred, social, and joyous than at present. - Washington Irving

There is no reason why marriage should necessarily compel an actress to forego her career. An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married. - Billie Burke

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise. - William James

Their speed is their weapon. - Joyous Tharrington

The unfortunate the fools are those men who, for some reason best known to themselves, probably on account of their exaggerated estimation of what is to be lost in the process would like to stop it. The privileged ones the wise are those few who, being fully aware of the increasing worthlessness of present-day mankind and of its much-applauded progress, know how little there is to be lost in the coming crash and look forward to it with joyous expectation as to the necessary condition of a new beginning a new Golden Age, sunlit crest of the next long drawn downward wave upon the surface of the endless Ocean of Life. - Savitri Devi