Quotes of Gaiety - somelinesforyou

“ With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda water the day after. ”

- Lord Byron

“ Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. ”

- Mark Twain

“ All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it. ”

- Eugene Field

“ 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. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Laugh 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. ”

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“ See, your guests approach. Address yourself to entertain them sprightly, And let's be red with mirth. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain, - Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after. ”

- Lord Byron

“ At Christmas I no more desire a roseThan wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth;But like of each thing that in season grows. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ O, sorrow! Why dost borrow Heart's lightness from the merriment of May? ”

- John Keats

“ Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union. ”

- Joseph Stalin

“ Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. ”

- Anatole France

“ Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. ”

- Sebastien Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

“ The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds? ”

- Lewis Carroll

“ Cheer up! The worst is yet to come! ”

- Philander Johnson

“ Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ 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. ”

- Dorothy Frances Gurney

“ Ah tell me not that memory sheds gladness over the past; what is recalled by faded flowers save that they did not last? ”

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“ I wish you all the good and charm that life can offer. Think of me kindly, and rest assured that no one would more rejoice to hear of your happiness. ”

- Ludwig van Beethoven

“ Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past. ”

- James Montgomery

“ Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail. ”

- Francis Quarles

“ I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning. ”

- Izaak Walton

“ Glee! The great storm is over! ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs. ”

- Jean Paul

“ May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam. ”

- Unknown

“ The end of life is life. Life is action, the use of one's powers. And to use them to their height is our joy of duty. ”

- Unknown

“ Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely. ”

- Georgia Witkin
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