School is established, not in order that it should be convenient for the children to study, but that teachers should be able… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Tis ever common That men are merriest when they are from home. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I do not know how the affair at Canterbury is generally considered; but I have heard individuals of all parties and all… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
Our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Optimism: That effervescent, blindingly- bright, perky, chipper, twittering quality you want to squash out of annoying people.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Inside, the festivities would continue, probably well into the night, with flirtation and merriment and gratuitous use of mistletoe. It was an… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Laughter is equally the expression of extreme anguish and horror as of joy: as there are tears of sorrow and tears of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
When you're playing a character who's cruel, look for the places where he's kind. When you're playing a character who is unhappy,… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
“This is a day of celebration! Today, we are divorcing the past and marrying the present. Dance, and you will find God… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I knew the poor, I knew the hideous death they die, when famine lays its bleak hand on the door; I knew… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment. — John Webster Copy Share Image
Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Avoid excessive merriment. A mind in that state never becomes calm; it becomes fickle. Excessive merriment will always be followed by sorrow.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. And let my liver rather heat with wine, than my heart cool with mortifying… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I have known sorrow - therefore I May laugh with you, O friend, more merrily Than those who never sorrowed upon earth… — Theodosia Garrison Copy Share Image
“The lover drinks and the cup-bearer pours. The lover thinks but the cup-bearer knows: love begets love. Since this wine is love,… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
