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Mirth Quotes

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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.
Joseph Addison

Authors on Mirth Quotes: William Shakespeare Joseph Addison Walter Scott Edith Wharton Richard Baxter Henry Ward Beecher Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Jean de la Bruyere Oliver Goldsmith Thomas Chandler Haliburton Gilbert K. Chesterton Margaret Widdemer Emily Dickinson Johann Kaspar Lavater H. L. Mencken Thomas Hood Henry David Thoreau Walter Savage Landor Heinrich Bullinger John Cage Nathaniel Hawthorne Tom Robbins Henry Fielding Leigh Hunt Agnes Repplier Francis Quarles Frederic Lawrence Knowles Winthrop Mackworth Praed George Herbert Charles Churchill Juvenal Izaak Walton Roald Dahl
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Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.
Edith Wharton

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

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For the Lord hath in no place forbidden mirth.
Heinrich Bullinger

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

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

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

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

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

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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.
Izaak Walton

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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.
Henry David Thoreau

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

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With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.
William Shakespeare

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But like of each thing that in season grows.
William Shakespeare

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

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

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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.
Joseph Addison

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

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

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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.
Henry Fielding

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

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

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An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.
Richard Baxter

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

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Mirth is God's medicine.
Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

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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.
H. L. Mencken

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

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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.
Victor Hugo

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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.
Ken Follett

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

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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.
Joseph Addison

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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.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

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

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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.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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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.
Jean de la Bruyere

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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.
Tom Robbins

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Mirth is the Mail of Anguish --
Emily Dickinson

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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?
William Shakespeare

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He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

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Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger
William Shakespeare

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As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

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Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.
Leigh Hunt

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

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

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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!
Frederic Lawrence Knowles

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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.
George Herbert