Mirth Quotes

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, There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.

Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.

For the Lord hath in no place forbidden mirth.

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.

I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like.

Keep company with the more cheerful sort of the Godly; there is no mirth like the mirth of believers.

A companion that feasts the company with and mirth, and leaves out the sin which is usually mixed with them, he is the man; and let me tell you, good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford; and reputation bleeds in every word.

There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others.

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 transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent.

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 before it.

With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.

I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercise.

Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.— Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts!

Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure.

But like of each thing that in season grows.

Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.

There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.

An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.

Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.

The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience.

Mirth is God's medicine.

The raillery which is consistent with good-breeding is a gentle animadversion of some foible, which, while it raises the laugh in the rest of the company, doth not put the person rallied out of countenance, or expose him to shame or contempt. On the contrary, the jest should be so delicate that the object of it should be capable of joining in the mirth it occasions.