In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness.
I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercise.
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
There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.
With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.
Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford; and reputation bleeds in every word.
The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh?
The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience.
Actually, there are countless ways to live upon this tremorous sphere in mirth and good health, and probably only one way - the industrial, urbanized, herding way - to live here stupidly, and man has hit upon that one way.
There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone