Mirth Quotes

In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, Hast so much wit and mirth and spleen about thee, There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.

Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.

For the Lord hath in no place forbidden mirth.

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.

I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like.

Keep company with the more cheerful sort of the Godly; there is no mirth like the mirth of believers.

A companion that feasts the company with and mirth, and leaves out the sin which is usually mixed with them, he is the man; and let me tell you, good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford; and reputation bleeds in every word.

There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others.

Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know aught, be gay before it.

The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience.

Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.— Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts!

An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.

I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercise.

Mirth is God's medicine.

The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.

With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.

But like of each thing that in season grows.

Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.

There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.

I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent.

Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure.

The raillery which is consistent with good-breeding is a gentle animadversion of some foible, which, while it raises the laugh in the rest of the company, doth not put the person rallied out of countenance, or expose him to shame or contempt. On the contrary, the jest should be so delicate that the object of it should be capable of joining in the mirth it occasions.

Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.

Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.

The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and rages, and there was a touch of hellfire in his mirth.

Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric.

I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite is 'The House of Mirth.' I also like 'The Reef.

The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh?

I remember, I remember how my childhood fleeted by. The mirth of its December, and the warmth of its July.

Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.

The suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools.

For me the motley and the bauble, yea, Though all be vanity, as the Preacher saith, The mirth of love be mine for one brief breath!

Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!

When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.

Man is the merriest species of the creation; all above or below him are serious.

Cruelty in all countries is the companion of anger; but there is only one, and never was another on the globe, where she coquets both with anger and mirth.

In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth.

On this hapless earth There 's small sincerity of mirth, And laughter oft is but an art To drown the outcry of the heart.

There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.

In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness.

There are times when the mirth of others only saddens us, especially the mirth of children with high spirits, that jar on our own quiet mood.

He's all my exercise, my mirth, my matter.

Love and grief and motherhood, Fame and mirth and scorn - these are all shall befall, Any woman born.

If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there be in the greatest cities.

Actually, there are countless ways to live upon this tremorous sphere in mirth and good health, and probably only one way - the industrial, urbanized, herding way - to live here stupidly, and man has hit upon that one way.

Mirth is the Mail of Anguish --

Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sell eternity to get a toy? For one grape who will the vine destroy?