Love and grief and motherhood, Fame and mirth and scorn - these are all shall befall, Any woman born. — Margaret Widdemer Copy Share Image
A precious place is Paradise and none may know its worth, But Eden ever longeth for the knicknacks of the earth. The… — Nathalia Crane Copy Share Image
We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
We praise Thee, Lord, of all the earth, for love and joy, for light and mirth, for every charm of sense and… — Cecil Frances Alexander Copy Share Image
It seemed a place where heroes could fitly feast after victory, where weary harvesters could line up in scores along the table… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after. — George Ade Copy Share Image
As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds and glitters for a moment.” — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Every one knows the veneration which was paid by the Jews to a name so great, wonderful, and holy. They would not… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
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
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
Amis is acutely, vibrantly sensitive to the different registers of laughter. He knows that it can be the most affirming and uniquely… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy. — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, Hast so much wit and mirth and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
“I am metaphysical being, mystical and emotional, skeptical and cynical, happy and boisterous, loud and bawdy, quiet and melancholy, tender and cruel,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Keep company with the more cheerful sort of the Godly; there is no mirth like the mirth of believers. — Richard Baxter 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
“What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle?” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Mirth is a Proteus, changing its shape and manner with the thousand diversities of individual character, from the most superfluous gayety to… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it… — Joseph Addison 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
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 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
