Quotes by Mirth The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth. Agnes Repplier mirth rights world The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh? Angela Carter mirth may laughing Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford; and reputation bleeds in every word. Charles Churchill mirth slander reputation Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any. Edith Wharton mirth half life-is She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making. Edith Wharton mirth tolerance scene There are times when the mirth of others only saddens us, especially the mirth of children with high spirits, that jar on our own quiet mood. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton mirth jars children Mirth is the Mail of Anguish -- Emily Dickinson anguish mirth mail The suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools. Francis Quarles mirth laughter cities The suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools. Francis Quarles mirth laughter cities For me the motley and the bauble, yea, Frederic Lawrence Knowles mirth vanity love-is When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin. George Herbert mirth sin needs The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and rages, and there was a touch of hellfire in his mirth. H. L. Mencken mirth music feelings On this hapless earth There 's small sincerity of mirth, And laughter oft is but an art To drown the outcry of the heart. Hartley Coleridge mirth laughter art 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. Gilbert K. Chesterton mirth doe philosophy For the Lord hath in no place forbidden mirth. Heinrich Bullinger forbidden mirth lord The raillery which is consistent with good-breeding is a gentle animadversion of some foible, which, while it raises the laugh in the rest of the company, doth not put the person rallied out of countenance, or expose him to shame or contempt. On the contrary, the jest should be so delicate that the object of it should be capable of joining in the mirth it occasions. Henry Fielding joining-in mirth laughing Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration. Henry Ward Beecher veneration mirth mind Mirth is God's medicine. Henry Ward Beecher mirth medicine humor In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth. Horace mirth play boys A companion that feasts the company with and mirth, and leaves out the sin which is usually mixed with them, he is the man; and let me tell you, good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. Izaak Walton mirth sin men 123»
