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
Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true Wit or good Sense never… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high, Where once the sign-post caught the passing eye, Low lies that house where… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Actually, there are countless ways to live upon this tremorous sphere in mirth and good health, and probably only one way -… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Humor is in fact an essential element in the mirth of creation. We can see how, in many matters in our lives,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which… — Henry Ward Beecher 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
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
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
As Tammie glow'red, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at… — Agnes Repplier 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
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
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 remember, I remember how my childhood fleeted by. The mirth of its December, and the warmth of its July. — Winthrop Mackworth Praed 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
“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
Here is neither want of appetite nor mouths, Pray heaven we be not scant of meat or mirth. — Walter Scott 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
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
...[W]e should be mucking about all the time, because mucking about is enjoying life for its own sake, now, and not in… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience. — John Cage 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
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