Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplier

The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.

Benjamin Rush
Benjamin Rush

Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.

Francis Quarles
Francis Quarles

Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.

George Ade
George Ade

It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.

Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher

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

Ingrid Seward
Ingrid Seward

As the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, the Queen feels she cannot be seen to smile in church - and her natural reaction is to combat mirth by putting on a stern face.

Izaak Walton
Izaak Walton

I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.

James Thurber
James Thurber

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

Robert South
Robert South

Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.