Mirth Quotations

I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.

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

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.

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

She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate.

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

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

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

There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.

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

What? I bring joy to the world. I am filled with mirth and sunlight. Also, I am Batman.

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.

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

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

Here is neither want of appetite nor mouths, Pray heaven we be not scant of meat or mirth.

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.

Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger

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

With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.

Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.

But like of each thing that in season grows.

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

No greater felicity can genius attain than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated mirth from indecency, and wit from licentiousness

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

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

Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.

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?

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

In all thy humors, 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

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 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.

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

The common growth of Mother EarthSuffices me, -- her tears, her mirth,Her humblest mirth and tears.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Mirth is the Mail of Anguish --

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

Mirth is God's medicine.

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.