Mirth Quotes · Page 3

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

— William Shakespeare

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

— Lord Byron

The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Walter Scott

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

— Juvenal

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

— Samuel Johnson

Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.

— Leigh Hunt

Now the bright morning-star, day's harbinger, comes dancing from the east.

— John Milton

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart…

— Joseph Addison

Humor is in fact an essential element in the mirth of creation. We can see how, in many matters in our lives,…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Laugh, and the world laughs with you: Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

This Universe is a wild revel of atoms, men, and stars, each one a Soul of Light and Mirth, horsed on Eternity.

— Aleister Crowley

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

— William Wordsworth

There are few sensations more painful, than, in the midst of deep grief, to know that the season which we have always…

— Sarah Josepha Hale

Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth,…

— Robert E. Howard

Let my worship be within the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are my rituals. Therefore, let…

— Doreen Valiente

And the small ripple spilt upon the beach Scarcely o'erpass'd the cream of your champagne, When o'er the brim the sparkling bumpers…

— Lord Byron

I live in a constant endeavor to fence against the infirmities of ill health, and other evils of life, by mirth; being…

— Laurence Sterne

I am in no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company, yet in one dream I can compose…

— Thomas Browne

We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and…

— Agnes Repplier

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up…

— Joseph Addison

I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it? I sought in mine heart to give myself unto…

— Bible

According to Hindu cosmology, we're in the kali yuga, a dark period when the cow of history is balanced precariously on one…

— Tom Robbins

Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh,…

— William Ellery Channing

It is a melancholy consideration that there should be several among us so hardened and deluded as to think an oath a…

— Joseph Addison

We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the yak, the belly laugh, and the…

— James Thurber

O Mistress mine, where are you roaming? O, stay and hear; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low:…

— William Shakespeare

“For all beings within this universal kingdom, their magnetic north rests in genuine mirth.”

— Gabriel Brunsdon

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

— William Shakespeare

For the Lord hath in no place forbidden mirth...

— Heinrich Bullinger

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Izaak Walton

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

— Joseph Addison

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

— Charles Churchill

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

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— Angela Carter

People who laugh so heartily at what they themselves have said, when it is not funny, dispense us accordingly, by taking upon…

— Marcel Proust