Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin! — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
This Universe is a wild revel of atoms, men, and stars, each one a Soul of Light and Mirth, horsed on Eternity. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
People who laugh so heartily at what they themselves have said, when it is not funny, dispense us accordingly, by taking upon… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation. — Willis Gaylord Clark Copy Share Image
The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me,-her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
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 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
What, my soul, was thy errand here? Was it mirth or ease, Or heaping up dust from year to year? "Nay, none… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Until I lose my soul and lie Blind to the beauty of the earth, Deaf though shouting wind goes by, Dumb in… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Let my worship be within the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are my rituals. Therefore, let… — Doreen Valiente Copy Share Image
I am in no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company, yet in one dream I can compose… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
I live in a constant endeavor to fence against the infirmities of ill health, and other evils of life, by mirth; being… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up… — Joseph Addison 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
What is it that strikes a spark of humor from a man? It is the effort to throw off, to fight back… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy consideration that there should be several among us so hardened and deluded as to think an oath a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the yak, the belly laugh, and the… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Now the bright morning-star, day's harbinger, comes dancing from the east. — John Milton Copy Share Image
I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercise. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding can be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford; and reputation bleeds in every word. — Charles Churchill 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
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
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
