quotes about Mirth
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The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh?
-- Angela Carter -
Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford; and reputation bleeds in every word.
-- Charles Churchill -
On this hapless earth There 's small sincerity of mirth, And laughter oft is but an art To drown the outcry of the heart.
-- Hartley ColeridgeSource : Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems”, p.124
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For the Lord hath in no place forbidden mirth...
-- Heinrich BullingerSource : Heinrich Bullinger, Harding (1850). “The Decades of H. Bullinger ..”, p.55
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The raillery which is consistent with good-breeding is a gentle animadversion of some foible, which, while it raises the laugh in the rest of the company, doth not put the person rallied out of countenance, or expose him to shame or contempt. On the contrary, the jest should be so delicate that the object of it should be capable of joining in the mirth it occasions.
-- Henry Fielding -
Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
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.
-- Horace -
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A companion that feasts the company with and mirth, and leaves out the sin which is usually mixed with them, he is the man; and let me tell you, good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
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He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater -
The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience.
-- John Cage -
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.
-- Joseph Addison -
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Man is the merriest species of the creation; all above or below him are serious.
-- Joseph Addison -
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.
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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.
-- Ken Follett -
Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.
-- Leigh Hunt -
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Love and grief and motherhood, Fame and mirth and scorn - these are all shall befall, Any woman born.
-- Margaret WiddemerSource : Margaret Widdemer (1917). “Factories, Poems”
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Keep company with the more cheerful sort of the Godly; there is no mirth like the mirth of believers.
-- Richard Baxter -
There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.
-- Thomas Hood -
What? I bring joy to the world. I am filled with mirth and sunlight. Also, I am Batman.
-- Warren EllisSource : "Tweetyour16yearoldself, Batman Revelations, And Bob Schreck In Today's Twitter Report" by Brian Warmoth, www.mtv.com. November 4, 2010.
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Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.— Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts!
-- William Shakespeare -
Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.
-- William Shakespeare -
Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure.
-- William Shakespeare -
I remember, I remember how my childhood fleeted by. The mirth of its December, and the warmth of its July.
-- Winthrop Mackworth PraedSource : Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1852). “Lillian: And Other Poems”, p.248
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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!
-- Frederic Lawrence Knowles