Mirth Quotes
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Mirth Quotes & Sayings
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Dear Celia, I show more mirth than I am mistress of; and would you yet I were merrier? ==========
— Anonymous
Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Oh, Gerty, I wasn't meant to be good.
— Edith Wharton
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
If you find him sad, say I am dancing. If in mirth, report that I am sudden sick.
— William Shakespeare
Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all the earth.
— Martin Luther
The suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools.
— Francis Quarles
We are expected to be pretty and well-dressed until we drop.
— Edith Wharton
There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
What? I bring joy to the world. I am filled with mirth and sunlight. Also, I am Batman.
— Warren Ellis
He's all my exercise, my mirth, my matter.
— William Shakespeare
With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.
— William Shakespeare
Have faith! where'er thy bark is driven, 'The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth, Know this! God rules the host of heaven, The inhabitants of earth.
— Friedrich Schiller
Keep company with the more cheerful sort of the Godly; there is no mirth like the mirth of believers.
— Richard Baxter
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
— William Shakespeare
An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.
— Richard Baxter
What truly captivated Rachael were her eyes - wide, deer-like, yet hauntingly sinister green with flecks of gold dancing in silent mirth.
— Deidre Huesmann
I remember, I remember how my childhood fleeted by. The mirth of its December, and the warmth of its July.
— Winthrop Mackworth Praed
Ah, he would take her beyondbeyond the ugliness, the pettiness, the attrition and corrosion of her soul. — Edith Wharton
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
Mirth is God's medicine.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The greatness that would make us grave,Is but an empty thing.
What more than mirth would mortals have?
The cheerful man's a king. — Isaac Bickerstaffe
The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me,-her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears.
— William Wordsworth
At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth;
But like of each thing that in season grows. — William Shakespeare
Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth. - Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts!
— William Shakespeare
Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger
— William Shakespeare
Here is neither want of appetite nor mouths,Pray heaven we be not scant of meat or mirth. — Walter Scott
Then they would both dissolve in giggles, bowing in their mirth to the awful hopelessness of it all.
— Armistead Maupin
Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs.
— Rudyard Kipling
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
To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be, it is impossible:
Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. — William Shakespeare
The Kiss of the Sun for Pardon, The Song of the Birds for Mirth, One is Nearer God's Heart in a Garden, Than Anywhere Else on Earth.
— Nicola Furlong
Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.
— Francis Quarles
Love and grief and motherhood, Fame and mirth and scorn - these are all shall befall, Any woman born.
— Margaret Widdemer
Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Ah, monarchs! could ye taste the mirth ye mar, Not in the toils of Glory would ye fret; The hoarse dull drum would sleep, and Man be happy yet.
— George Gordon Byron
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
— William Blake
Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford; and reputation bleeds in every word.
— Charles Churchill
Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.
— Robert South
Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
But he could never be long without trying to find a reason for what she was doing ...
— Edith Wharton
I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.
— Izaak Walton
Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.
— Edith Wharton
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
A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.
— Henry Ward Beecher
It is the Christmas time:And up and down 'twixt heaven and earth,
In glorious grief and solemn mirth,
The shining angels climb. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
— George Gordon Byron
For the Lord hath in no place forbidden mirth ...
— Heinrich Bullinger
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
It is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
— Agnes Repplier
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
If only you were half so good as he! He sins no sins but gentle drunkenness, Great-hearted mirth, and kind adultery.
— Christopher Hitchens
The Angel that presided o'er my birth Said, 'Little creature, formed of joy and mirth, Go love without the help of any thing on earth' ...
— William Blake
This Universe is a wild revel of atoms, men, and stars, each one a Soul of Light and Mirth, horsed on Eternity.
— Aleister Crowley
Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds and glitters for a moment.
— Joseph Addison
Do not fear those who bear you ill will, they soon shall fall in shame, read Georgina, cackling with mirth.
— Leonora Carrington
For all beings within this universal kingdom, their magnetic north rests in genuine mirth.
— Gabriel Brunsdon
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
Your eyes remained haunted. Seeing something in the world that your mirth can not dissolve." I
— Tillie Cole
Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure.
— William Shakespeare
Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.
— William Shakespeare
Secret fatesGuide our states
Both in mirth and mourning. — Thomas Campion
Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
— Benjamin Rush
Mirth is the Mail of Anguish --
— Emily Dickinson
Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.
— William Shakespeare
In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation.
— Willis Gaylord Clark
