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Mirth is God's medicine.
He's all my exercise, my mirth, my matter.
Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger
But like of each thing that in season grows.
An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.
For the Lord hath in no place forbidden mirth.
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.
Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.
Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.
Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.
She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.
Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure.
There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh?
Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford; and reputation bleeds in every word.
The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.
Man is the merriest species of the creation; all above or below him are serious.
It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
The suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools.
There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others.
I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.
Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!
I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercise.
Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
Keep company with the more cheerful sort of the Godly; there is no mirth like the mirth of believers.
Love and grief and motherhood, Fame and mirth and scorn - these are all shall befall, Any woman born.
Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.
I remember, I remember how my childhood fleeted by. The mirth of its December, and the warmth of its July.
Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience.
Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sell eternity to get a toy? For one grape who will the vine destroy?
Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.
Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.— Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts!
There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.
On this hapless earth There 's small sincerity of mirth, And laughter oft is but an art To drown the outcry of the heart.
Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.
I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like.
In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth.
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.
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.
For me the motley and the bauble, yea, Though all be vanity, as the Preacher saith, The mirth of love be mine for one brief breath!
When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest.
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.
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.
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.'
Cruelty in all countries is the companion of anger; but there is only one, and never was another on the globe, where she coquets both with anger and mirth.