Mirth Quotes

Mirth Quote of the day

Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.

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.

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.

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

Oh! like a wreath, let Christmas mirth To-day encircle all the earth, And bind the nations with the love That Jesus brought from heaven above.

Dance and Provencal song and sunburnt mirth! On for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene! With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth.

Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. And let my liver rather heat with wine, than my heart cool with mortifying groans.

Let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.

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

For the Lord hath in no place forbidden mirth.

This Universe is a wild revel of atoms, men, and stars, each one a Soul of Light and Mirth, horsed on Eternity.

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

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.

One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret that's never been told. ~ Simon

Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all the earth.

It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.

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.

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.

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'.

Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.

A gypsy fire is on the hearth, Sign of the carnival of mirth; Through the dun fields and from the glade Flash merry folk in masquerade, For this is Hallowe'en!

Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.

Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness.

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

The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.

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.

Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.

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

Secret fates Guide our states Both in mirth and mourning.

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

Laugh often friends tho' passing years bring, sometimes, smiles and, sometimes, tears, for mirth forever warms and cheers. Laugh often!

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.

In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation.

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

With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.

But like of each thing that in season grows.

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

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.

Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs.

An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.

Mirth is God's medicine; everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all the rust of life- ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth.

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

Bards of Passion and of Mirth, Ye have left your souls on earth! Have ye souls in heaven too, Double-lived in regions new?

The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.

Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine.