Mirth Quotes: top 95 famous quotes about Mirth

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Dear Celia, I show more mirth than I am mistress of; and would you yet I were merrier? ========== — Anonymous

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

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

...she was like a disembodied spirit who took up a great deal of room — 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

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

If you find him sad, say I am dancing. If in mirth, report that I am sudden sick. — William Shakespeare

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

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

Bards of Passion and of Mirth, Ye have left your souls on earth! Have ye souls in heaven too, Double-lived in regions new? — John Keats

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

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

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

What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle? — George Eliot

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. — William Shakespeare

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. — Horace

Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days! — Lord Byron

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

Hold mirth tight against your breast, but answer every injury with bladed heart. — Chris Galford

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

Oh! like a wreath, let Christmas mirth To-day encircle all the earth, And bind the nations with the love That Jesus brought from heaven above. — Maud Lindsay

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

As Tammie glow'red, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious. — Robert Burns

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 beyond
beyond 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

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

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

We all enter this world crying. Laughter is something we have to learn — Gina Barreca

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

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

It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and solemn faces. — Walter Scott

Laugh often friends tho' passing years bring, sometimes, smiles and, sometimes, tears, for mirth forever warms and cheers. Laugh often! — John McLeod

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

Red all over the cupboard, mirth rhymes with birth, oh to die of laughter. — Margaret Atwood

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

Let others choose the sons of mirth, To give a relish to their wine; I love the men of heavenly birth, Whose thoughts and language are divine.18 — Douglas Bond

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

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

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

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 fates
Guide our states
Both in mirth and mourning. — Thomas Campion

The size of a man's understanding can be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson

It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after. — George Ade

Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb. — Benjamin Rush

Laughter is eternity if joy is real. — Bono

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

Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine. — Henry Ward Beecher

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