Top 185 Mirth Quotes & Sayings

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

An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.

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.

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

Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.

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

Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.

The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me,-her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears.

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

On this hapless earth There 's small sincerity of mirth, And laughter oft is but an art To drown the outcry of the heart.

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

In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness.

As Tammie glow'red, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious.

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!

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

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

Here is neither want of appetite nor mouths, Pray heaven we be not scant of meat or mirth.

The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience.

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

Mirth is God's medicine.

It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.

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 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.

A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety,--all this rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it. A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it runs.

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.

The suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools.

With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.

He's all my exercise, my mirth, my matter.

It is the Christmas time: And up and down 'twixt heaven and earth, In glorious grief and solemn mirth, The shining angels climb.

Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger

There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.

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.

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

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

It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and solemn faces.

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

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

To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans; coy looks, with heart-sore sighs; one fading moment's mirth

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

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?

Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know aught, be gay before it.

Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.

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.

Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.

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.

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

Love and grief and motherhood, Fame and mirth and scorn - these are all shall befall, Any woman born.

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.

Mirth is the Mail of Anguish --

it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.

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

Secret fates Guide our states Both in mirth and mourning.

Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.

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

Keep company with the more cheerful sort of the Godly; there is no mirth like the mirth of believers.

Wrinkle not thy face with too much laughter, lest thou become ridiculous; neither wanton thy heart with too much mirth, lest thou become vain: the suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools.

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

For the Lord hath in no place forbidden mirth.

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.