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
And one would worship a woman whom all perfections dower, But the other smiles at transparent wiles; and he quotes from Schopenhauer… — James Branch Cabell 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
The greatness that would make us grave, Is but an empty thing. What more than mirth would mortals have? The cheerful man's… — Isaac Bickerstaffe Copy Share Image
Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin! — Walter Scott 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
You who so plod amid serious things that you feel it shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments… — Howard Pyle Copy Share Image
it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
February... Bending from Heaven, in azure mirth, It kissed the forehead of the Earth, And smiled upon the silent sea, And bade… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth, five for silver, six for gold, seven for… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Oh! like a wreath, let Christmas mirth To-day encircle all the earth, And bind the nations with the love That Jesus brought… — Maud Lindsay 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
In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation. — Willis Gaylord Clark Copy Share Image
Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but… — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What win I, if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a… — William Shakespeare 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… — Bruno LoGreco 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
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
A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still.… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days! — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
