“ 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. ”
- Bishop Robert South- Copy
- 928
“ 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. ”
- Sir William Blake- Copy
- 1.8K
“ The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth. ”
- Charles Lamb- Copy
- 807
“ A fastidious person in the throes of love is a rich source of mirth. ”
- Martha Duffy- Copy
- 2.2K
“ 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- Copy
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“ Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb. ”
- Benjamin Rush- Copy
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“ Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sells eternity to get a toy? For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy? ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning. ”
- Izaak Walton- Copy
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“ You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same. ”
- Jonathan Davis- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox- Copy
- 636
“ The kingdoms of fantasy and mirth are longlasting and not of this world. ”
- V. S. Pritchett- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Ella Wheeler- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms — hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal. ”
- James Thurber- Copy
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“ Frame your mind to mirth and merriment, which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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“ Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda water the day after. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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