Mirth Quotes
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The Angel that presided o'er my birth Said, 'Little creature, formed of joy and mirth, Go love without the help of any thing on earth'.
William Blake
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Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide,And folly into sin!
Walter Scott
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Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety,--all this rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it. A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it runs.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.
William Shakespeare
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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
William Shakespeare
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Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.
William Shakespeare
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We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness, her character, with its faults, caprices and God knows what other inexpressible charms; but we do not love her understanding.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Feeding off each other, magnified by the knowledge that the laughter was so inappropriate, their mirth was uncontrollable.
Brandon Mull
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There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.
Thomas Hood
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There are times when the mirth of others only saddens us, especially the mirth of children with high spirits, that jar on our own quiet mood.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Mirth is a Proteus, changing its shape and manner with the thousand diversities of individual character, from the most superfluous gayety to the deepest, moat earnest humor.
Edwin Percy Whipple
