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An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow. - Richard Baxter, Self Denial A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. - Bible, Proverbs (ch. XVII, v. 22) As Tammie glow'red, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious. - Robert Burns, Tam o' Shanter Go then merrily to Heaven. - Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. II, sec. 3, memb. 1) The more fools the more one laughs. [Fr., Plus on est de fous, plus on rit.] - Florent Carton Dancourt, Maison de Campagne (sc. 11) Some credit in being jolly. - Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (ch. V) A very merry, dancing, drinking, Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time. - John Dryden, The Secular Masque (l. 40) And mo the merier is a Prouerbe eke. [The more the merrier.] - George Gascoigne, Works (I, 64), (edited by Hazlitt) Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Be merry if you are wise. [Lat., Ride si sapis.] - Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis), Epigrams (II, 41, 1) Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee, In unreprov'd pleasures free. - John Milton, L'Allegro (l. 38) Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare. - Sir Walter Scott, The Lady of the Lake (canto I, st. 21) And frame your mind to mirth and merrimnent, Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life. - William Shakespeare As 'tis ever common That men are merriest when they are from home. - William Shakespeare As merry as the day is long. - William Shakespeare What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within's two hours. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, ii) Hostess, clap to the doors. Watch to-night, pray to-morrow. Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good fellowship come to you! What, shall we be merry? Shall we have a play extempore. - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Falstaff at II, iv) Berowne they call him; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal. - William Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost (Rosaline at II, i) To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. - William Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost (Berowne at V, ii) Be large in mirth; anon we'll drink a measure The table round. - William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Macbeth at III, iv) For the heavens, he shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is long. - William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (Beatrice at II, i) (Pedro:) In faith, lady, you have a merry heart. (Beatrice:) Yea, my lord; I thank it, poor fool, it keeps on the windy side of care. - William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (Pedro & Beatrice at II, i) (Pedro:) Your silence most offends me, and to be merry best becomes you for out o' 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, Much Ado About Nothing (Pedro & Beatrice at II, i) I am not merry; but I do beguile The thing I am by seeming otherwise. - William Shakespeare, Othello the Moor of Venice (Desdemona at II, i) And if you can be merry then, I'll say A man may weep upon his wedding day. - William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Speaker at prologue) Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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