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
Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
“Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds and glitters for a moment.” — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Oh! like a wreath, let Christmas mirth To-day encircle all the earth, And bind the nations with the love That Jesus brought… — Maud Lindsay Copy Share Image
“Then they would both dissolve in giggles, bowing in their mirth to the awful hopelessness of it all.” — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
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
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
What win I, if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
And fairy month of waking mirth From whom our joys ensue Thou early gladder of the earth Thrice welcome here anew With… — John Clare Copy Share Image
“I checked out the two Edith Wharton books I had just returned because I'd read them so long ago and they are… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
What is now the foliage moving? Air is still, and hush'd the breeze, Sultriness, this fullness loving, Through the thicket, from the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
God made both tears and laughter, and both for kind purposes; for as laughter enables mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so… — Leigh Hunt 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
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
Farewell, Father," she said. He fell back upon his chair, choking. She laughed, not with mirth or even mockery, but something that… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“In mirth he mocks the other birds at noon, Catching the lilt of every easy tune; But when the day departs he… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was… — Victor Hugo 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
One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth, five for silver, six for gold, seven for… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of… — Horace 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
Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. And let my liver rather heat with wine, than my heart cool with mortifying… — William Shakespeare 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
To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. — William Shakespeare 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
If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The greatness that would make us grave, Is but an empty thing. What more than mirth would mortals have? The cheerful man's… — Isaac Bickerstaffe Copy Share Image
There are times when the mirth of others only saddens us, especially the mirth of children with high spirits, that jar on… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The Angel that presided o'er my birth Said, 'Little creature, formed of joy and mirth, Go love without the help of any… — William Blake Copy Share Image
When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but… — Robert South 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
Mirth is God's medicine; everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all the rust of life- ought to be scoured… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth… — Joseph Addison 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
