Quotes About Mirth

The ghost of a roar of laughter came out to them, and was drowned at once in the wind.

After all, there is no harm in smiling.

We praise Thee, Lord, of all the earth, for love and joy, for light and mirth, for every charm of sense and right, and blessings boundless as Thy might.... But most we praise the love that gave thine own dear Son to seek and save, for joy all other joys excelling, for purest light and life indwelling.

It was not a laugh but merely a loud smile.

When laughter feasts, sadness starves.

Never underestimate the power of funny, it moves mountains.

There's not a string attuned to mirthBut has its chord in melancholy.

And the small ripple spilt upon the beach Scarcely o'erpass'd the cream of your champagne, When o'er the brim the sparkling bumpers reach, That spring-dew of the spirit! the heart's rain! 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.

When wine has given indecent language birth, And forced the flood-gates of licentious mirth...

...for the gods too love a joke...

Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty-fifth of this month, that the Divinest Heart that ever walked the earth was born on that day; and then smile and enjoy yourselves for the rest of it; for mirth is also of Heaven's making.

Darcy was not of a disposition in which happiness overflows in mirth; and Elizabeth, agitated and confused, rather knew that she was happy than felt herself to be so;

What do you think makes you start laughing and unable to stop?

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

The chuckle is a perfectly acceptable form of laughter.

Clearly, the Goddess has a sense of humor.

Therese said, still laughing, laughing away all the longing and the intention of the night.

One does not kill by anger but by laughter.

He did not mean that his parents neglected him or that he found no friend. Rather, he meant that... our only sources of joy and mirth lie within us, in the mind, rather than outside us, on the earth. Blake's parents were loving and giving, but they could not give him the heavenly beauty and spiritual peace which is to be found only within us, in Christ, or, as Blake came to call Him, in the Human Imagination.

and I laughed and laughed and laughed until the sound of the sea was drowned.

Oh foolishest fond folly of a heart Divided, neither here nor there at rest! That hankers after Heaven, but clings to earth That neither here nor there knows thorough mirth, Half-choosing, wholly missing, the good part: — Oh fool among the foolish, in thy quest. ~ Later Life: A Double Sonnet of Sonnets

O maior inimigo do riso é a emoção.

Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.

They drew all manner of things—everything that begins with an M… such as mousetraps, and the moon, and memory, and muchness—you know you say things are "much of a muchness."