Merriment Quotes - Page 2

• An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.

  Richard Baxter

  Sorrow, Mirth, Pounds

  Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter: With a Life of the Author, and a Critical Examination of His Writings”, p.376

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• It make one's mouth hurt to speak with such forced merriment.

  David Sedaris

  Hurt, Mouths, Speak

  David Sedaris (1998). “The Santaland Diaries ; And, Season's Greetings”, p.15, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• When you're playing a character who's cruel, look for the places where he's kind. When you're playing a character who is unhappy, look for the places where he has a glint of merriment.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Character, Unhappy, Looks

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children. Here he spontaneously reveals his nature, the base as well as the noble. Here also he buries his sorrows and difficulties and cherishes his ideals and hopes. It is in the garden that men discover themselves. Indeed one discovers not only his real self but also his ideal self?he returns to his youth. Inevitably the garden is made the scene of man's merriment, escapades, romantic abandonment, spiritual awakening or the perfection of his finer self.

  Confucius

  Spiritual, Children, Real

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• I have known sorrow - therefore I
  May laugh with you, O friend, more merrily
  Than those who never sorrowed upon earth
  And know not laughter's worth.
  I have known laughter - therefore I
  May sorrow with you far more tenderly
  Than those who never guess how sad a thing
  Seems merriment to one heart's suffering.

  Theodosia Garrison

  Laughter, Heart, Laughing

  "Knowledge". Poem by Theodosia Garrison. "Something to Live By". Book by Dorothea S. Kopplin, 2016.

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• Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night, While the stars that oversprinkle All the Heavens seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight: Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells-- From the jingling and the tingling of the bells.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Stars, Night, Air

  "The Bells" l. 6 (1849)

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• Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.

  Robert Herrick

  Tables, Eating

  Robert Herrick (1869). “Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected”, p.131

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• Christmas is more than a time of music, merriment and mirth; it is a season of meditation, mangers and miracles. Christmas is more than a time of carols, cards and candy; it is a season of dedication and decision.

  William Arthur Ward

  Christmas, Dedication, Meditation

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• Laughter is equally the expression of extreme anguish and horror as of joy: as there are tears of sorrow and tears of joy, so is there a laugh of terror and a laugh of merriment.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Laughter, Expression, Laughing

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1858). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.156

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• By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the gravest philosopher.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Humor, Water, Firsts

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• Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.

  C. S. Lewis

  People, Joy, Heaven

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• Life is not only merriment,It is desire and determination.

  Khalil Gibran

  Determination, Desire, Life Is

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• Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

  William Powell

  Inspirational, Friendship, Real Friends

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• These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment.

  Wilfred Owen

  Men, Tears

  Wilfred Owen (1965). “The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen”, p.40, New Directions Publishing

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• An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married.

  Billie Burke

  Moving, Careers, Tears

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• Who would guess," he teased, "that I'd ever see you on a rooftop with straw in your hair?" Kit giggled. "Are you saying I've turned into a crow?" "Not exactly." His eyes were intensely blue with merriment. "I can still see the green feathers if I look hard enough. But they've done their best to make you into a sparrow, haven't they?

  Elizabeth George Speare

  Eye, Hair, Blue

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• I hear that in many places something has happened to Christmas; that it is changing from a time of merriment and carefree gaiety to a holiday which is filled with tedium; that many people dread the day and the obligation to give Christmas presents is a nightmare to weary, bored souls; that the children of enlightened parents no longer believe in Santa Claus; that all in all, the effort to be happy and have pleasure makes many honest hearts grow dark with despair instead of beaming with good will and cheerfulness.

  Julia Peterkin

  Christmas, Xmas, Children

  "A Plantation Christmas". Book by Julia Peterkin, 1934.

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• And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.

  Lewis Carroll

  Peace, Nature, Sleep

  Lewis Carroll (2016). “Phantasmagoria”, p.190, Lewis Carroll

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• A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment.

  Prince Philip

  Horse, Equestrian, Excuse

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• Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Running, Men, He Man

  1925 Arrowsmith, ch.25.

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• This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

  Samuel Johnson

  Church, Offensive

  James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 76 (March 1781)

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• We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Lessons, Chess, Should

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.235, Cambridge University Press

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• Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good judgment.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Assessment, Statistics, Judgment

  The Silence of the Sea On Statistics (p. 171)

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• Nature's tears are reason's merriment.

  William Shakespeare

  Tears, Reason

  William Shakespeare (1869). “Romeo and Juliet: A Tragedy”, p.101

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• 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. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty or justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary.

  Adam Smith

  Law, Justice, People

  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 1, bk. 1, ch. 10 (1776)

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