Mirth Quotes - page 3

Present mirth hath present laughter; What's to come is still unsure. (William Shakespeare)
Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee, In unreprovèd pleasures free. View quote
John Milton
Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth. View quote
John Milton
Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free His half-regained Eurydice. These delights, if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee, I mean to live. View quote
John Milton
In mirth that after no repenting draws. View quote
John Milton
And ones their hastie heate a littell controlde, Than perceiue they well, hotte love soone colde. And whan hasty witlesse mirth is mated weele, Good to be mery and wise, they thinke and feele. View quote
John Heywood
You who so plod amid serious things that you feel it shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments to mirth and joyousness in the land of Fancy; you who think that life hath not to do with innocent laughter that can harm no one; these pages are not for you. View quote
Howard Pyle
I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite is 'The House of Mirth.' I also like 'The Reef.' View quote
Ken Follett
Tell mankind Jehovah reigns; He shall bind the world in chains, So as it shall never slide, And with sacred justice guide. Let the smiling heavens rejoice, Joyful earth exalt her voice; Let the dancing billows roar, Echoes answer from the shore, Fields their flowery mantles shake; All shall in their joy partake; While the wood-musicians sing To the ever-youthful spring. Fill His courts with sacred mirth; Lo! He comes to judge the earth: Justly He the world shall sway, And His truth to men display. View quote
Henry More
How Adewen stuffed her braid in her mouth at that! Or she'd cover her mirth with her hands and shake till you'd think that the fit was upon her. She did the same too when she wept so you'd never be sure which she hid with her hands, her tears or her cackling. I think there were times she herself didn't know, nor does anyone know at times. Laugh till you weep. Weep till there's nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it's all one. View quote
Frederick Buechner
It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after. (George Ade)
Burns's gifts, expressed in conversation, are the theme of all that ever heard him. All kinds of gifts: from the gracefulest utterances of courtesy, to the highest fire of passionate speech; loud floods of mirth, soft wailings of affection, laconic emphasis, clear piercing insight; all was in him. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
A precious place is Paradise and none may know its worth, But Eden ever longeth for the knicknacks of the earth.The angels grow quite wistful over worldly things below; They hear the hurdy-gurdies in the Candle Makers Row.They listen for the laughter from the antics of the earth; They lower pails from heaven's walls to catch the milk-maids mirth. View quote
Nathalia Crane
In a herber green, asleep where I lay, The birds sang sweet in the mids of the day; I dreamed fast of mirth and play. In youth is pleasure, in youth is pleasure. View quote
Robert Wever
A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
The kiss of the sun for pardon, The song of the birds for mirth, One is nearer God's Heart in a garden Than anywhere else on Earth. View quote
Dorothy Frances Gurney
I am spectator, not partaker, here. To me it seems more like a pageant made To represent mirth, than the mirth itself. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Oh! moral of enjoyment! - scattered, crushed : - The pale checks of the few that staid, like ghosts Haunting the footsteps of departing mirth, While the bright pictures over them looked down Almost in mockery. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Then out on the folly of ancient times- The folly which wished you mirth : Look round on the anguish, look round on the vice, Then dare to be glad upon earth ! View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
... unshared mirth only damps the spirits of a small circle ... View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Egmont: The Egmont of yon city - he is proud, And cold, and stern, and sorrowful. He keeps His counsel to himself. He wears a brow That is a smiling shadow to his heart : Perplexed with seeming mirth, that shroudeth care. Exalted by a giddy populace, That know not what they laud, or what they seek. Moving 'mid those who understand him not; Whom he has naught in common with : and worn By furious guarding 'gainst familiar friends Who seem, yet are not. Watched, suspected, feared; Wearied with labour, which hath neither end Nor yet reward; but only distant hope. Such is the Egmont of the field and state. But thine beloved : he is happy, frank, Open, and known to that most dear of hearts - Which he knows, too, and trusts it as his own. Calm, deeply joyful; such is Egmont now. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)
I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like. View quote
Roald Dahl
He could not be captured, He could not be bought, His running was rhythm, His standing was thought; With one eye on sorrow And one eye on mirth, He galloped in heaven And gambolled on earth. View quote
Eleanor Farjeon
I see them, crowd on crowd they walk the earth, Dry leafless trees no autumn wind laid bare; And in their nakedness find cause for mirth, And all unclad would winter's rudeness dare; No sap doth through their clattering branches flow, Whence springing leaves and blossoms bright appear; Their hearts the living God have ceased to know, Who gives the springtime to th' expectant year. View quote
Jones Very
Why – even supposing I had the skill – do you bid me compose a song dedicated to Venus the lover of Fescennine mirth, placed as I am among long-haired hordes, having to endure German speech, praising oft with wry face the song of the gluttonous Burgundian who spreads rancid butter on his hair? View quote
Sidonius Apollinaris