Quotes
Quotes about Mirth
You have displac'd the mirth, broke the good meeting,
With most admir'd disorder.
With an auspicious and a dropping eye,
With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage,
In equal scale weighing delight and dole.
From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot, he is all mirth.
At Christmas I no more desire a rose
Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth;
But like of each thing that in season grows.
A merrier man,
Within the limit of becoming mirth,
I never spent an hour's talk withal.
Far from all resort of mirth
Save the cricket on the hearth.
In mirth that after no repenting draws.
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.
Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days
Have led their children through the mirthful maze,
And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore,
Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore.
Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth:
If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.
As Tammie glow'red, amazed and curious,
The mirth and fun grew fast and furious.
The common growth of Mother Earth
Suffices me,--her tears, her mirth,
Her humblest mirth and tears.
Where lives the man that has not tried
How mirth can into folly glide,
And folly into sin!
O Mirth and Innocence! O milk and water!
Ye happy mixtures of more happy days.
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,
Sermons and soda-water the day after.
Dance and Provençal song and sunburnt mirth!
Oh for a beaker full of the warm South,
Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene!
With beaded bubbles winking at the brim,
And purple-stainèd mouth.
Bards of Passion and of Mirth,
Ye have left your souls on earth!
Have ye souls in heaven too?
On this hapless earth
There's small sincerity of mirth,
And laughter oft is but an art
To drown the outcry of the heart.
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
I remember, I remember
How my childhood fleeted by,--
The mirth of its December
And the warmth of its July.
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.
God sent his singers upon earth
With songs of sadness and of mirth.
? John Bartlett, compLaugh and the world laughs with you,
Weep, and you weep alone;
For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still. The smitten rock that gushes, The trampled steel that springs,, A cheek is always redder Just where the hectic stings Mirth is mail of anguish, In which its cautious arm Lest anybody spy the blood And, you're hurt exclaim.
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. (Merchant Of Venice)
