Mirth Quotes

118 quotes by 80 authors

Even the song of birds, which we can bring under no musical rule, seems to have more freedom, and therefore more for taste, than a… — Immanuel Kant
February... Bending from Heaven, in azure mirth, It kissed the forehead of the Earth, And smiled upon the silent sea, And bade the frozen streams… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know aught, be gay… — Henry David Thoreau
The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favourite phantom;… — William C. Bryant
The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth. — Agnes Repplier
And the small ripple spilt upon the beach Scarcely o'erpass'd the cream of your champagne, When o'er the brim the sparkling bumpers reach, That spring-dew… — Lord Byron
Mirth is God's medicine. — Henry Ward Beecher
Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true Wit or good Sense never excited a laugh… — Lord Chesterfield
I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like. — Roald Dahl
I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite is 'The House of Mirth.' I also… — Ken Follett
Christmas is more than a time of music, merriment and mirth; it is a season of meditation, mangers and miracles. Christmas is more than a… — William Arthur Ward
Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. — William Shakespeare
When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin. — George Herbert
Dance and Provencal song and sunburnt mirth! On for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene! With beaded… — John Keats
How beautiful the water is! To me 'tis wondrous fair-- No spot can ever lonely be If water sparkle there; It hath a thousand tongues… — Elizabeth Oakes Smith
Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb. — Benjamin Rush
A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still. The smitten rock… — Emily Dickinson
On this hapless earth There 's small sincerity of mirth, And laughter oft is but an art To drown the outcry of the heart. — Hartley Coleridge
Bards of Passion and of Mirth, Ye have left your souls on earth! Have ye souls in heaven too, Double-lived in regions new? — John Keats

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