Quotes About Mirth

Such strains as would have won the earOf Pluto, to have quite set freeHis half-regain'd Eurydice.These delights, if thou canst give,Mirth, with thee, I mean to live.

Where glowing embers through the roomTeach light to counterfeit a gloom,Far from all resort of mirth,Save the cricket on the hearth.

Mirth, admit me of thy crew,To live with her, and live with thee,In unreproved pleasures free.

My sense of humor has saved me more than a couple of times in my life.

Ha ha ha ha ha ho ho ho!"–Little Lulu

From earth, and sky, and sea, Let cheer come unto me, And mirth, and tenderness, And all the things that bless, That I may pass them on to those Who suffer woes; Not keep them for mine own.

it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness and sticks and spectacles and rheumatism and forgetfulness! It is so silly! Old age has nothing whatever to do with all that. The right old age means strength and beauty and mirth and courage and clear eyes and strong painless limbs.

I practically fall on the floor laughing.

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

I laugh and the stars watch.

I laugh and the stars are watching It's good to be alive

HERE'S HOW MY OXFORD DICTIONARY DEFINES IT: "The spasmodic utterance, facial distortion, shaking of the sides, etc., which form the instinctive impression of mirth." To me this sounds like the array of symptoms caused by a lethal virus, but it's actually a description of one of the best things life has to offer: laughter. With certain exceptions, the Joy Diet requires you to do it at least thirty times a day.

They were eyes made for laughter, but not raucous yuks; rather, for the laughter of wit, of erudition, of the bon mot.

We can always lace a sense of humor around anything.

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.

Oh! like a wreath, let Christmas mirth To-day encircle all the earth, And bind the nations with the love That Jesus brought from heaven above.

had laughed for a full minute, trying to straighten his face when

And I have listened also, in my youth, And more than once or twice, To the trained speech, the excellent advice, The clear, dramatic statement of the sum, And, after it was dumb, Heard, like a spook, the curious echo come, The echo of unkempt and drawling mirth --The lounging mirth of cracker-barrel men, Snowed in by winter, spitting at the fire, And telling the disreputable truth With the sad eye that marks the perfect liar-- And, by that laughter, was set free again.

I like humor.

I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.

While Sands's eyes flicker with private mirth, the evil that Tim hinted at fills my soul like a squid's ink.

It was the kind of laugh that hunted down funny things, and killed them stone dead.

This, said Mother, as she handed him a piece of dry, tasteless matzoh, is the bread of our affliction. Where, young Kugel wondered, is the seven-layer cake of our salvation? Where is the muffin of our mirth? Where is our no-longer-reduced-to-jelly doughnut?

And she laughed, a full octave, descending from high C like chimes.