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Quotes about Mirth

Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.
- Lewis Carroll
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
Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.
- Tom Lehrer
Sorrow is better than joy - and even in mirth the heart is sad - and it is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasts, for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. Our nature is sorrowful but for those who have learnt and are learning to look at Jesus Christ, there is always reason to rejoice
- Vincent Van Gogh
Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!
- Charles Dickens
Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
- Henry Ward Beecher
If cold December gave you birth, The month of snow and ice and mirth, Place on your hand a turquoise blue, Success will bless what'er you do.
- Anonymous
Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric.
- Victor Hugo
Humor is in fact an essential element in the mirth of creation. We can see how, in many matters in our lives, God wants to prod us into taking things a bit more lightly.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds and glitters for a moment.
- Joseph Addison
A jest breaks no bones.
- Samuel Johnson
Such strains as would have won the ear of Pluto, to have quite set free his half-regain'd Eurydice. These delights, if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee, I mean to live.
- John Milton