Destroyed Quote by Samuel Johnson

Do not suffer a sudden impression to overbear your judgment.

— Marcus Aurelius

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

— Samuel Johnson

The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.

— Samuel Johnson

Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart,…

— Samuel Johnson

Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.

— Samuel Johnson

A jest breaks no bones

— Samuel Johnson

And mo the merier is a Prouerbe eke. [The more the merrier.]

— George Gascoigne

“Optimism: That effervescent, blindingly- bright, perky, chipper, twittering quality you want to squash out of annoying people.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.

— William Shakespeare

Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset,…

— C. S. Lewis

I do not know how the affair at Canterbury is generally considered; but I have heard individuals of all parties and all opinions speak…

— Lydia M. Child