There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.
Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sell eternity to get a toy? For one grape who will the vine destroy?
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercise.
I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.
I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like.
The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh?
Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger
In all thy humors, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, hast so much wit and mirth and spleen about thee, there is no living with thee, nor without thee
The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience.