In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation. — Willis Gaylord Clark Copy Share Image
It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
What is our life? A play of passion. Our mirth the music of division. Our mother's wombs the tyring houses be, Where… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sell eternity to get a toy? For one grape who will the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth, That they might touch the hearts of men, And… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
His face was sad and stern because of the doom that was laid on him, and yet hope dwelt ever in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans; coy looks, with heart-sore sighs; one fading moment's mirth — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Free from gross passion or of mirth of anger constant spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Mirthfulness is in the mind, and you cannot get it out. It is the blessed spirit that God has set in the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I have observed that in comedies the best actor plays the droll, while some scrub rogue is made the fine gentleman or… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness and sticks and spectacles and… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety,--all this rust of life, ought to be scoured… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Dance and Provencal song and sunburnt mirth! On for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful… — John Keats Copy Share Image
We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We danced our youth in a dreamed of city, Venice, paradise, proud and pretty, We lived for love and lust and beauty,… — Veronica Franco Copy Share Image
“Dear Celia, I show more mirth than I am mistress of; and would you yet I were merrier? ==========” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Keep company with the more cheerful sort of the Godly; there is no mirth like the mirth of believers. — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
The tragedian will always be a limited tragedian if he has not learned how to laugh. The comedian who cannot weep will… — Ellen Terry Copy Share Image
Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full… — William Dunbar Copy Share Image
A gypsy fire is on the hearth, Sign of the carnival of mirth; Through the dun fields and from the glade Flash… — Jerry Smith Copy Share Image
I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite is 'The House of… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
Have Faith. Where'er thy bark is driven, - The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth, - Know this: God rules the hosts of… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Love and grief and motherhood, Fame and mirth and scorn - these are all shall befall, Any woman born. — Margaret Widdemer Copy Share Image
“Don't let your teeth make you lose respect by permanently keeping them opened for the sake of being friendly.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
There is a God! the sky his presence shares, His hand upheaves the billows in their mirth, Destroys the mighty, yet the… — Charlotte Saunders Cushman Copy Share Image
On this hapless earth There 's small sincerity of mirth, And laughter oft is but an art To drown the outcry of… — Hartley Coleridge 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… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, Hast so much wit and mirth and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you. — Starhawk Copy Share Image
Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
Laugh often friends tho' passing years bring, sometimes, smiles and, sometimes, tears, for mirth forever warms and cheers. Laugh often! — John McLeod Copy Share Image
For me the motley and the bauble, yea, Though all be vanity, as the Preacher saith, The mirth of love be mine… — Frederic Lawrence Knowles Copy Share Image
Kevin Kline gives a master class in acting. He finds every nuance of mirth and melancholy in this wonder of a role… — Peter Travers Copy Share Image
The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience. — John Cage Copy Share Image
Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb. — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
