Mirth Quotes

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. (Joseph Addison)
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth. View quote
William Blake
God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth, That they might touch the hearts of men, And bring them back to heaven again. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
The Angel that presided oer my birth Said Little creature, formd of joy and mirth, Go, love without the help of anything on earth. View quote
William Blake
The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me,her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears. View quote
William Wordsworth
I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning. View quote
Izaak Walton
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. View quote
William Shakespeare
Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin. View quote
Walter Scott
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 feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it. View quote
James Thurber
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. (Joseph Addison)
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 jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet. View quote
Robert E. Howard
Have Faith. Where'er thy bark is driven, - The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth, - Know this: God rules the hosts of heaven, The habitants of earth. View quote
Friedrich Schiller
The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh? View quote
Angela Carter
I am in no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company, yet in one dream I can compose a whole Comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof. View quote
Thomas Browne
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. View quote
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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 of its own. View quote
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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 laughing and lyric. View quote
Victor Hugo
Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days! View quote
Lord Byron
As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
There's not a string attuned to mirth But has its chord in melancholy. (Thomas Hood)
And one would worship a woman whom all perfections dower, But the other smiles at transparent wiles; and he quotes from Schopenhauer. Thus two by two we wrangle and blunder about the earth, And that body we share we may not spare; but the Gods have need of mirth. View quote
James Branch Cabell
As Tammie glow'red, amazed, and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious. View quote
Robert Burns
Bards of Passion and of Mirth, Ye have left your souls on earth! Have ye souls in heaven too, Double-lived in regions new? View quote
John Keats
On this hapless earth There 's small sincerity of mirth, And laughter oft is but an art To drown the outcry of the heart. View quote
Hartley Coleridge