He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb. — Benjamin Rush 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
Haunted Gulp down your wine, old friends of mine, Roar through the darkness, stamp and sing And lay ghost hands on everything,… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
How beautiful the water is! To me 'tis wondrous fair-- No spot can ever lonely be If water sparkle there; It hath… — Elizabeth Oakes Smith Copy Share Image
I would I were alive again To kiss the fingers of the rain, To drink into my eyes the shine Of every… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Now the bright morning-star, day's harbinger, comes dancing from the east. — John Milton Copy Share Image
...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness and sticks and spectacles and… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty-fifth of this month, that the Divinest Heart that ever walked… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Even the song of birds, which we can bring under no musical rule, seems to have more freedom, and therefore more for… — Immanuel Kant 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
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
Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Cruelty in all countries is the companion of anger; but there is only one, and never was another on the globe, where… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for… — Pierre Charron 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
On this hapless earth There 's small sincerity of mirth, And laughter oft is but an art To drown the outcry of… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
A gypsy fire is on the hearth, Sign of the carnival of mirth; Through the dun fields and from the glade Flash… — Jerry Smith Copy Share Image
The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among… — James Thurber 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
