Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.

— Samuel Johnson

There are some works which the authors must consign unpublished to posterity, however uncertain be the event, however hopeless be the trust. He that…

— Samuel Johnson

Laughter is equally the expression of extreme anguish and horror as of joy: as there are tears of sorrow and tears of joy, so…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“How freeing of a thought: instead of worrying about leaving a legacy, to leave no trace of one's existence. How liberating indeed!”

— Kamand Kojouri

Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious…

— Agnes Repplier

“Inside, the festivities would continue, probably well into the night, with flirtation and merriment and gratuitous use of mistletoe. It was an inexpressibly wearying…

— Lauren Willig

And mo the merier is a Prouerbe eke. [The more the merrier.]

— George Gascoigne

“Optimism: That effervescent, blindingly- bright, perky, chipper, twittering quality you want to squash out of annoying people.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.

— William Shakespeare

Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset,…

— C. S. Lewis

I do not know how the affair at Canterbury is generally considered; but I have heard individuals of all parties and all opinions speak…

— Lydia M. Child

Tis ever common That men are merriest when they are from home.

— William Shakespeare

Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good…

— Hilaire Belloc

School is established, not in order that it should be convenient for the children to study, but that teachers should be able to teach…

— Leo Tolstoy