Mirth Quotes

Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger

— William Shakespeare

Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.

— William Shakespeare

He's all my exercise, my mirth, my matter.

— William Shakespeare

An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.

— Richard Baxter

“Who buys a minute’s mirth to wail a week?”

— Nora Roberts

“Myth is mirth dressed in mist.”

— Rick Mave

“One for sorrow. Two for mirth.”

— Sarah MacLean

Mirth is the Mail of Anguish --

— Emily Dickinson

With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.

— William Shakespeare

As Tammie glow'red, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious.

— Robert Burns

“The size of a man’s understanding may always be justly measured by his mirth.”

— Samuel Johnson

Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.

— Walter Scott

Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days!

— Lord Byron

There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.

— Thomas Hood

It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.

— George Ade

Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs.

— Rudyard Kipling

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

His face was sad and stern because of the doom that was laid on him, and yet hope dwelt ever in the…

— Anonymous

To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans; coy looks, with heart-sore sighs; one fading moment's mirth

— William Shakespeare

I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children…

— Roald Dahl

Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sell eternity to get a toy? For one grape who will the…

— Anonymous

God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth, That they might touch the hearts of men, And…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Dear Celia, I show more mirth than I am mistress of; and would you yet I were merrier? ==========”

— Anonymous

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full…

— William Dunbar

I have observed that in comedies the best actor plays the droll, while some scrub rogue is made the fine gentleman or…

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Mirthfulness is in the mind, and you cannot get it out. It is the blessed spirit that God has set in the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness and sticks and spectacles and…

— George MacDonald

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

We danced our youth in a dreamed of city, Venice, paradise, proud and pretty, We lived for love and lust and beauty,…

— Veronica Franco

Dance and Provencal song and sunburnt mirth! On for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful…

— John Keats

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

I live in a constant endeavor to fence against the infirmities of ill health, and other evils of life, by mirth; being…

— Laurence Sterne

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

“Sincere and unspiteful laughter is mirth, but where is there any mirth in our time, and do people know how to be…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Books come at my call and return when I desire them; they are never out of humor and they answer all my…

— Petrarch

Simon remembered a rhyme his mother used to recite to him, about magpies. You were supposed to count them and say: one…

— Cassandra Clare

“LAUGH, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But…

— Bruno LoGreco

No doubt hard work is a great police agent. If everybody were worked from morning till night, and then carefully locked up,…

— Arthur Helps

“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

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