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Tag Name "Merriment" (42)

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These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment.
Wilfred Owen
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It would not be more unreasonable to transplant a favorite flower out of black earth into gold dust than it is for a person to let money-getting harden his heart into contempt, or into impatience, of the little attentions, the merriments and the caresses of domestic life.
William Mountford
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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
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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
William Shakespeare
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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. And let my liver rather heat with wine, than my heart cool with mortifying groans.
William Shakespeare
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To be merry best becomes you for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour.
William Shakespeare
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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.
Agnes Repplier
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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
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Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
Samuel Johnson
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Tiffs among the faggots were apparently the stuff of quiet merriment.
Josh Lanyon
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It make one's mouth hurt to speak with such forced merriment.
David Sedaris
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Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.
Robert Herrick
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Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
William Shakespeare
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Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.
Samuel Johnson
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This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.
Samuel Johnson
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Nature's tears are reason's merriment.
William Shakespeare
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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
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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.
Adam Smith
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O, sorrow! Why dost borrow Heart's lightness from the merriment of May?
John Keats
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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.
William Shakespeare
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Life is not only merriment,It is desire and determination.
Khalil Gibran
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There was a star danced, and under that was I born.
William Shakespeare
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An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.
Richard Baxter
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