What is our life? A play of passion. Our mirth the music of division. Our mother's wombs the tyring houses be, Where… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Old Khayyám, say you, is a debauchee;If only you were half so good as he!He sins no sins but gentle drunkenness,Great-hearted mirth,… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
While snow the window-panes bedim, The fire curls up a sunny charm, Where, creaming o'er the pitcher's rim, The flowering ale is… — John Clare Copy Share Image
Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
Now the bright morning-star, Day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green… — John Milton Copy Share Image
And the small ripple spilt upon the beach Scarcely o'erpass'd the cream of your champagne, When o'er the brim the sparkling bumpers… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Simon remembered a rhyme his mother used to recite to him, about magpies. You were supposed to count them and say: one… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the… — John Gillespie Magee, Jr Copy Share Image
No doubt hard work is a great police agent. If everybody were worked from morning till night, and then carefully locked up,… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
“When Death, or adverse Fortune's ruthless gale, Tears our best hopes away, the wounded Heart Exhausted, leans on all that can impart… — Anna Seward Copy Share Image
Books come at my call and return when I desire them; they are never out of humor and they answer all my… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
“Dear Celia, I show more mirth than I am mistress of; and would you yet I were merrier? ==========” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle?” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience. — John Cage Copy Share Image
Here is neither want of appetite nor mouths, Pray heaven we be not scant of meat or mirth. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Bards of Passion and of Mirth, Ye have left your souls on earth! Have ye souls in heaven too, Double-lived in regions… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“For all beings within this universal kingdom, their magnetic north rests in genuine mirth.” — Gabriel Brunsdon Copy Share Image
At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Man is the merriest species of the creation; all above or below him are serious. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.— Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh? — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The tragedian will always be a limited tragedian if he has not learned how to laugh. The comedian who cannot weep will… — Ellen Terry Copy Share Image
Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full… — William Dunbar Copy Share Image
The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite is 'The House of… — Ken Follett 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
“I live in a constant endeavour to fence against the infirmities of ill health, and other evils of life, by mirth; being… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
There is a God! the sky his presence shares, His hand upheaves the billows in their mirth, Destroys the mighty, yet the… — Charlotte Saunders Cushman Copy Share Image
Wrinkle not thy face with too much laughter, lest thou become ridiculous; neither wanton thy heart with too much mirth, lest thou… — Francis Quarles 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
We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety,--all this rust of life, ought to be scoured… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Rude poets of the tavern hearth, squandering your unquoted mirth, which keeps the ground, and never soars, while jake retorts, and reuben… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We, in the ages lying In the buried past of the earth, Built Nineveh with our sighing, And Babel itself with our… — Arthur O'Shaughnessy Copy Share Image
“ 'Go back up.' The angel chuckled. 'Well, that would be easy enough if I wanted to go up, but I assure… — Leta Blake Copy Share Image
Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape s their… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
What are you? The voice came from nowhere. It was in the room. It was outside. It was in Magnus's head. "A… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand.… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
