<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Joy - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65275]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23446]]></link><description><![CDATA[The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23447]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On a March clothesline.. transparent icicles in a rowin the bright sunthey drip and glow Marks of exclamation !!!!!!!!!!a sentence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23449]]></link><description><![CDATA[On a March clothesline.. transparent icicles in a rowin the bright sunthey drip and glow Marks of exclamation !!!!!!!!!!a sentence of joyful exclamation !!!!!!!!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23450]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clot of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. . -George Bernard Shaw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My plenteous joys, Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves  In drops of sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23437]]></link><description><![CDATA[My plenteous joys, Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves  In drops of sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A joy that's shared is a joy made double. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23439]]></link><description><![CDATA[A joy that's shared is a joy made double.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They all attain perfection When they find joy in their work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23440]]></link><description><![CDATA[They all attain perfection When they find joy in their work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23441]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone 's letter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23443]]></link><description><![CDATA[One joy scatters a hundred griefs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How fading are the joys we dote upon! Like apparitions seen and gone;  But those which soonest take their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23433]]></link><description><![CDATA[How fading are the joys we dote upon! Like apparitions seen and gone;  But those which soonest take their flight   Are the most exquisite and strong;    Like angel's visits short and bright,     Mortality's too weak to bear them long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found;  And 'tis joy that moves the pinion  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found;  And 'tis joy that moves the pinion   When the wheel of time goes round.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in, Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23435]]></link><description><![CDATA[At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in, Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23436]]></link><description><![CDATA[For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And, e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23426]]></link><description><![CDATA[And, e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23427]]></link><description><![CDATA[They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But were there ever any Writhed not at passed joy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23428]]></link><description><![CDATA[But were there ever any Writhed not at passed joy?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy makes us giddy, dizzy. [Ger., Die Freude macht drehend, wirblicht.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy makes us giddy, dizzy. [Ger., Die Freude macht drehend, wirblicht.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.  [Lat., Medio ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.  [Lat., Medio de fonte leporum   Surgit amari aliquid, quod in ipsis floribus angat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away. [Lat., Gaudia non remanent, sed fugitiva volant.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away. [Lat., Gaudia non remanent, sed fugitiva volant.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capacity for joy Admits temptation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capacity for joy Admits temptation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An infant when it gazes on a light, A child the moment when it drains the breast,  A devotee ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23418]]></link><description><![CDATA[An infant when it gazes on a light, A child the moment when it drains the breast,  A devotee when soars the Host in sight,   An Arab with a stranger for a guest,    A sailor when the prize has struck in fight,     A miser filling his most hoarded chest,      Feel rapture; but not such true joy are reaping       As they who watch o'er what they love while sleeping.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.   - Lord Byron (George Gordon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23419]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.   - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, frabjous day! Callooh. Callay! He chortled in his joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, frabjous day! Callooh. Callay! He chortled in his joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sing out my soul, thy songs of joy; Such as a happy bird will sing,  Beneath a Rainbow's lovely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sing out my soul, thy songs of joy; Such as a happy bird will sing,  Beneath a Rainbow's lovely arch,   In early spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our joy is dead, and only smiles on us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our joy is dead, and only smiles on us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it;  That when you get an easy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23424]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a hope for every woe, And a balm for every pain,  But the first joys of our heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23425]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a hope for every woe, And a balm for every pain,  But the first joys of our heart   Come never back again!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23410]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy comes from using your potential. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy comes from using your potential.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joys Are bubble-like--what makes them bursts them too.   - Philip James Bailey, Festus ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joys Are bubble-like--what makes them bursts them too.   - Philip James Bailey, Festus]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23415]]></link><description><![CDATA[And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The joy late coming late departs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23416]]></link><description><![CDATA[The joy late coming late departs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23404</guid></item></channel></rss>