Quotes about Mirth

Where glowing embers through the room teach 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.

His face was sad and stern because of the doom that was laid on him, and yet hope dwelt ever in the depths of his heart, from which mirth would arise at times like a spring from a rock.

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.

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

Snaughling: Laughing so hard you snort, then laugh because you snorted, then snort because you laughed.

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

Humor, however broad and genial, takes a narrower view than enthusiasm.

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.

Like the creation, man's games are an expression of freedom . . . for playing relates to the joy of the creator with his creation and the pleasure of the player with his game. Like creation, games combine sincerity and mirth, suspense and relaxation. The player is wholly absorbed in his game and takes it seriously, yet at the same time he transcends himself and his game, for it is after all only a game.22

Why should I keep holiday / When other men have none? / Why but because, when these are gay, / I sit and mourn alone? / And why, when mirth unseals all tongues, / Should mine alone be dumb? / Ah! late I spoke to silent throngs, / And now their hour is come.

The incident had that rich savor of the ludicrous which neither pity nor charity can destroy. Unfortunately, she could not in decency share it with anybody; she could only enjoy it in lonely ecstasies of mirth.