Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. The heart of the wise is in the ho...use of mourning: but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind... of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Tragi-Comedy, which is the Product of the English Theatre, is one of the most monstrous Inventions that ever entered into a Po...et's Thoughts. An Author might as well think of weaving the Adventures of Aeneas and Hudibras into one Poem, as of writing such a motly [sic] Piece of Mirth and Sorrow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Angel that presided o'er my birth Said, "Little creature, formed of Joy and Mirth,... Go love without the help of any thing on earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are flood and drouth Over the eyes and in the mouth,... Dead water and dead sand Contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil Gapes at the vanity of toil, Laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »