The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
What? I bring joy to the world. I am filled with mirth and sunlight. Also, I am Batman. — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
I have of late, yet wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth…wait…there it is, never mind... — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days! — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy. — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“In mirth he mocks the other birds at noon, Catching the lilt of every easy tune; But when the day departs he… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Cruelty in all countries is the companion of anger; but there is only one, and never was another on the globe, where… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth, five for silver, six for gold, seven for… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
What win I, if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
And one would worship a woman whom all perfections dower, But the other smiles at transparent wiles; and he quotes from Schopenhauer… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Old Khayyám, say you, is a debauchee;If only you were half so good as he!He sins no sins but gentle drunkenness,Great-hearted mirth,… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
God made both tears and laughter, and both for kind purposes; for as laughter enables mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Every one knows the veneration which was paid by the Jews to a name so great, wonderful, and holy. They would not… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
And fairy month of waking mirth From whom our joys ensue Thou early gladder of the earth Thrice welcome here anew With… — John Clare Copy Share Image
“I checked out the two Edith Wharton books I had just returned because I'd read them so long ago and they are… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
What is now the foliage moving? Air is still, and hush'd the breeze, Sultriness, this fullness loving, Through the thicket, from the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“In 1881, being on a visit to Boston, my wife and I found ourselves in the Parker House with the Ingersoll 's,… — Moncure Daniel Conway Copy Share Image
To-day I think Only with scents, - scents dead leaves yield, And bracken, and wild carrot's seed, And the square mustard field;… — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Looking back through the mists of time, I recall some distinctly religious experiences in my teens--when I was only fourteen years old… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
Only in the theatre was it possible to see the performers and to be warmed by their personal charm, to respond to… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Now the bright morning-star, Day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Even the song of birds, which we can bring under no musical rule, seems to have more freedom, and therefore more for… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Simon remembered a rhyme his mother used to recite to him, about magpies. You were supposed to count them and say: one… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
