Quotes of Merriment - somelinesforyou

“ Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda water the day after. ”

- Lord Byron

“ With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed. ”

- Sebastien Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

“ Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can. ”

- Elsa Maxwell

“ I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry. ”

- Pierre Beaumarchais

“ You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it. ”

- Bill Cosby

“ The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter. ”

- Alice Meynell

“ We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all. ”

- Jean de la Bruyere

“ And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep. ”

- Lord Byron

“ See, your guests approach. Address yourself to entertain them sprightly, And let's be red with mirth. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain, - Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after. ”

- Lord Byron

“ I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience — and laughter. ”

- Susan M. Watkins

“ How much lies in Laughter: the cipher-key, wherewith we decipher the whole man. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ They're making me out to be a serial marrying person or something. I'm laughing at that. ”

- Jennifer Lopez

“ Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ The glad circle round them yield their souls To festive mirth, and wit that knows no gall. ”

- James Thomson

“ Laughter is the most healthful exertion. ”

- Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

“ Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ In the vain laughter of folly, wisdom hears half its applause. ”

- George Eliot

“ Laugh and the world laughs with you, Weep, and you weep alone; For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. ”

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“ There is nothing sillier than a silly laugh. ”

- Catullus

“ You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants. ”

- Stephen King

“ Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened. ”

- Lawrence Durrell

“ The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ I hasten to laugh at everything for fear of being obliged to weep. ”

- Pierre Beaumarchais

“ The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed. ”

- Sebastian R. N. Chamfort

“ That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency. ”

- John Quinton

“ I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself. ”

- Samuel Johnson
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