“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
At a banquet Caligula was suddenly seized with a fit of helpless laughter. The consuls reclining next to him asked if they… — Suetonius Copy Share Image
It would not be more unreasonable to transplant a favorite flower out of black earth into gold dust than it is for… — William Mountford Copy Share Image
Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops,… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“Far more important than the tribulations and heartaches, the thrills, merriment, and pleasures of life is what you learn from it all.… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Dublin ... is not only the capital of a nation, but the capital of an idea. The idea of Irishness is not… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
Deep joy is a serene and sober emotion, rarely evinced in open merriment. — Madame Roland Copy Share Image
I hear that in many places something has happened to Christmas; that it is changing from a time of merriment and carefree… — Julia Peterkin Copy Share Image
Christmas is more than a time of music, merriment and mirth; it is a season of meditation, mangers and miracles. Christmas is… — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children. Here he… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“The Universe will give us love, happiness, merriment and laughter if we give others love, happiness, merriment and laughter!” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
As Tammie glow'red, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
To be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
O, sorrow! Why dost borrow Heart's lightness from the merriment of May? — John Keats Copy Share Image
Most of us agree that the United Nations is the vanguard of a foreign invasion and must be driven from our shores.… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment. — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
