Quotes by Mirth Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know aught, be gay before it. Henry David Thoreau mirth gay wisdom If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there be in the greatest cities. Jean de la Bruyere mirth curiosity cities He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at. Johann Kaspar Lavater mirth greatness laughing The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience. John Cage mirth emotion sorrow Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. Joseph Addison mirth laughter men I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Joseph Addison mirth optimism mind Man is the merriest species of the creation; all above or below him are serious. Joseph Addison mirth serious men There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly. Joseph Addison mirth innocence eye In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, Hast so much wit and mirth and spleen about thee, There is no living with thee, nor without thee. Joseph Addison mirth graves life Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders. Juvenal beholder mirth luck I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite is 'The House of Mirth.' I also like 'The Reef. Ken Follett mirth my-favorite house Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise. Leigh Hunt mirth disguise melancholy Love and grief and motherhood, Fame and mirth and scorn - these are all shall befall, Any woman born. Margaret Widdemer mirth motherhood grief As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest. Nathaniel Hawthorne systematic mirth home Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt. Oliver Goldsmith mirth wisdom doubt Keep company with the more cheerful sort of the Godly; there is no mirth like the mirth of believers. Richard Baxter mirth cheerful godly An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow. Richard Baxter mirth sorrow pounds 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 mirth delight children There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others. Thomas Chandler Haliburton enjoyment mirth fun There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy. Thomas Hood chords mirth melancholy «123»
