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Quotes About Mirth

Funny is funny.
~ Don Rickles
Laughter is life-giving. It makes you breathe.
~ Kristin Chenoweth
No. I rarely laugh. I really need to have a good reason to laugh.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
I have a file of four million jokes... I have them cross-indexed. Whatever subject you want, I have a joke on it.
~ Milton Berle
It's disgusting how much I laugh during the day.
~ Rosie Perez
He laughed at that. 'You're
~ Robert Goddard
But Gold was not all. The other kings bring Frank Innocence and Mirth.' | Darcourt was startled, then delighted. 'That is very fine, Yerko; is it your own?' | 'No, it is in the story. I saw it in New York. The kings say, We bring you Gold, Frank Innocence, and Mirth.' | 'Sancta simplicitas,' said Darcourt, raising his eyes to mine. 'If only there were more Mirth in the message He has left to us. We miss it sadly, in the world we have made. And Frank Innocence. Oh, Yerko, you dear man.' ...
~ Robertson Davies
Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all the earth.
~ Martin Luther
I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.
~ Donna Tartt
Let my worship be within the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are my rituals. Therefore, let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.
~ Doreen Valiente
Therefore, let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.
~ Doreen Valiente
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
Nobody ever died of laughter.
~ Max Beerbohm
Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.
~ George Carlin
She laughed—and then stopped.
~ Annie Barrows
I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like.
~ Roald Dahl
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.
~ Robert South
[Sir Thomas] More is a man of angel's wit and singular learning; I know not his fellow. For where is the man of that gentleness, lowliness and affability? And as time requireth, a man of marvelous mirth and pastimes; and sometimes of as sad a gravity; a man for all seasons.
~ Robert Whittinton
He laughed, tried to make it into a cough, inhaled at exactly the wrong moment, and then really did cough.
~ Robin McKinley
He laughed a great deal and enjoyed the speculation he caused.
~ Ron Chernow
Caspian burst into gales of laughter. "I suppose you were
~ Ruth Rendell
Let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.
~ Starhawk
Since time is not a person we can overtake when he is past, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Did I not feel charmed at those truly genuine expressions of nature, which, though but little mirthful in reality, so often amused us?
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe