Barbara Holland Quotes about Joy

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Gloom we have always with us, a rank and sturdy weed, but joy requires tending.

Gloom we have always with us, a rank and sturdy weed, but joy requires tending.

Weed, Joy, Sturdy

To extract the fullest flavor of our drinking house, we needed to spend serious evening time there, slowly coming to know the bartender and the regulars, their joys and sorrows.

Barbara Holland

Drinking, House, Joy

Barbara Holland (2008). “The Joy of Drinking”, p.23, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

If a quick glance back over world history shows us anything, it shows us that war was one of our most universal joys from our earliest beginnings, savored at every possible opportunity and even some quite incomprehensible ones.

Barbara Holland

War, Opportunity, Joy

Barbara Holland (1999). “Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories”, Harcourt

Visiting is a pleasure; being visited is usually a mixed or ambivalent joy. ... The visitor can always go home; the visitee is already home, trapped like a rat in a drainpipe.

Barbara Holland

Home, Joy, Rats

Barbara Holland Quotes about Joy

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