With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. And let my liver rather heat with wine, than my heart cool with mortifying groans.
Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.
Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.
There was a star danced, and under that was I born.
Tis ever common That men are merriest when they are from home.
Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away.
Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.
To be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour.
Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat.
And to be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour. BEATRICE No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there was a star danced, and under that was I born.
Tiffs among the faggots were apparently the stuff of quiet merriment.
O, sorrow! Why dost borrow Heart's lightness from the merriment of May?
Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment – and the subtlest nuances and interplay of these feelings which words are powerless to express and which are unattainable in painting and sculpture.
Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.
I am not merry, but I do beguile the thing I am by seeming otherwise.
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.
And mo the merier is a Prouerbe eke. [The more the merrier.]
As Tammie glow'red, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious.
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