Mirth Quotes

118 quotes by 80 authors

Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail. — Francis Quarles
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. — William Shakespeare
The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and… — James Thurber
Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the… — Robert E. Howard
Laugh, and the world laughs with you: Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life. — William Shakespeare
Mirth is the Mail of Anguish -- — Emily Dickinson
The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience. — John Cage
...[W]e should be mucking about all the time, because mucking about is enjoying life for its own sake, now, and not in preparation for an… — Tom Hodgkinson
...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness and sticks and spectacles and rheumatism and forgetfulness!… — George MacDonald
What win I, if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute's mirth to… — William Shakespeare
Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both… — Victor Hugo
We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest; And deal full many a thoughtless blow, To those who love us best. Laugh,… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
O Mistress mine, where are you roaming? O, stay and hear; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low: Trip no further,… — William Shakespeare
In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty-fifth of this month, that the Divinest Heart that ever walked the earth was… — Leigh Hunt
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after. — Lord Byron
Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sell eternity to get a toy? For one grape who will the vine destroy? — William Shakespeare
Let my worship be within the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are my rituals. Therefore, let there be beauty… — Doreen Valiente
We danced our youth in a dreamed of city, Venice, paradise, proud and pretty, We lived for love and lust and beauty, Pleasure then our… — Veronica Franco

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