Mirth Quotes

118 quotes by 80 authors

Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a… — Robert South
For the Lord hath in no place forbidden mirth... — Heinrich Bullinger
Keep company with the more cheerful sort of the Godly; there is no mirth like the mirth of believers. — Richard Baxter
There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you. — Starhawk
An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow. — Richard Baxter
A gypsy fire is on the hearth, Sign of the carnival of mirth; Through the dun fields and from the glade Flash merry folk in… — Jerry Smith
As Tammie glow'red, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious. — Robert Burns
Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and… — William Dunbar
Free from gross passion or of mirth of anger constant spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with… — William Shakespeare
Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin! — Walter Scott
Mirth is God's medicine; everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all the rust of life- ought to be scoured off by the… — Orison Swett Marden
In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, Hast so much wit and mirth and spleen about thee,… — Joseph Addison
Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt. — Oliver Goldsmith
As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape s their opposites. It is… — Edwin Percy Whipple
Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to live and how… — Holbrook Jackson
Laugh often friends tho' passing years bring, sometimes, smiles and, sometimes, tears, for mirth forever warms and cheers. Laugh often! — John McLeod
He's all my exercise, my mirth, my matter. — William Shakespeare
This Universe is a wild revel of atoms, men, and stars, each one a Soul of Light and Mirth, horsed on Eternity. — Aleister Crowley

Who Wrote These Mirth Quotes

80 authors contributed a total of 118 Mirth Quotes, led by these top contributors: