It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after. — George Ade Copy Share Image
As Tammie glow'red, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
“The size of a man’s understanding may always be justly measured by his mirth.” — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin! — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Oh, good gigantic smile o' the brown old earth, This autumn morning! How he sets his bones To bask i' the sun,… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Oh! like a wreath, let Christmas mirth To-day encircle all the earth, And bind the nations with the love That Jesus brought… — Maud Lindsay Copy Share Image
“Then they would both dissolve in giggles, bowing in their mirth to the awful hopelessness of it all.” — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
I remember, I remember how my childhood fleeted by. The mirth of its December, and the warmth of its July. — Winthrop Mackworth Praed Copy Share Image
“Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds and glitters for a moment.” — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Mirth is a Proteus, changing its shape and manner with the thousand diversities of individual character, from the most superfluous gayety to… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
While snow the window-panes bedim, The fire curls up a sunny charm, Where, creaming o'er the pitcher's rim, The flowering ale is… — John Clare Copy Share Image
Farewell, Father," she said. He fell back upon his chair, choking. She laughed, not with mirth or even mockery, but something that… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“Yes - it was happiness she still wanted, and the glimpse she had caught of it made everything else of no account.… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
What, my soul, was thy errand here? Was it mirth or ease, Or heaping up dust from year to year? "Nay, none… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to… — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
“As a matter of fact, with all his wit, humor, raillery, persiflage, he was the profoundest logician that ever appealed to the… — Herman E. Kittredge Copy Share Image
Until I lose my soul and lie Blind to the beauty of the earth, Deaf though shouting wind goes by, Dumb in… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
“LAUGH, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But… — Bruno LoGreco Copy Share Image
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the… — John Gillespie Magee, Jr Copy Share Image
No doubt hard work is a great police agent. If everybody were worked from morning till night, and then carefully locked up,… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
“When Death, or adverse Fortune's ruthless gale, Tears our best hopes away, the wounded Heart Exhausted, leans on all that can impart… — Anna Seward Copy Share Image
“Sincere and unspiteful laughter is mirth, but where is there any mirth in our time, and do people know how to be… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
I would I were alive again To kiss the fingers of the rain, To drink into my eyes the shine Of every… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Books come at my call and return when I desire them; they are never out of humor and they answer all my… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
What is it that strikes a spark of humor from a man? It is the effort to throw off, to fight back… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle?” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
