Mirth Quotes
118 quotes by 80 authors
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Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of…
— Joseph Addison
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Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth,…
— Joseph Addison
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It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.
— George Ade
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Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
— William Blake
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To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans; coy looks, with heart-sore sighs; one fading moment's mirth
— William Shakespeare
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These are the things I prize And hold of dearest worth: Light of the sapphire skies, Peace of the silent hills, Shelter of the forests,…
— Henry Van Dyke
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Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth of…
— John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
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Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all…
— Martin Luther
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I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and…
— Joseph Addison
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The Angel that presided o'er my birth Said, 'Little creature, formed of joy and mirth, Go love without the help of any thing on earth'...
— William Blake
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A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all,…
— Agnes Repplier
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The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me,-her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears.
— William Wordsworth
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Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.
— Walter Scott
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Love and grief and motherhood, Fame and mirth and scorn - these are all shall befall, Any woman born.
— Margaret Widdemer
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Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all…
— Matthew Simpson
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With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.
— William Shakespeare
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Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs.
— Rudyard Kipling
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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. And let my liver rather heat with wine, than my heart cool with mortifying groans.
— William Shakespeare
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Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure.
— William Shakespeare
Who Wrote These Mirth Quotes
80 authors contributed a total of 118 Mirth Quotes, led by these top contributors: