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An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.
Author: Richard Baxter
Source: Self Denial
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A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit
drieth the bones.
Author: Bible
Source: Proverbs (ch. XVII, v. 22)
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As Tammie glow'red, amazed and curious,
The mirth and fun grew fast and furious.
Author: Robert Burns
Source: Tam o' Shanter
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Go then merrily to Heaven.
Author: Robert Burton
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. II, sec. 3, memb. 1)
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The more fools the more one laughs.
[Fr., Plus on est de fous, plus on rit.]
Author: Florent Carton Dancourt
Source: Maison de Campagne (sc. 11)
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Some credit in being jolly.
Author: Charles Dickens
Source: The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (ch. V)
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A very merry, dancing, drinking,
Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time.
Author: John Dryden
Source: The Secular Masque (l. 40)
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And mo the merier is a Prouerbe eke.
[The more the merrier.]
Author: George Gascoigne
Source: Works (I, 64), (edited by Hazlitt)
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Be merry if you are wise.
[Lat., Ride si sapis.]
Author: Marcus Valerius Martial
Source: Epigrams (II, 41, 1)
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Mirth, admit me of thy crew,
To live with her, and live with thee,
In unreprov'd pleasures free.
Author: John Milton
Source: L'Allegro (l. 38)
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Forward and frolic glee was there,
The will to do, the soul to dare.
Author: Sir Walter Scott
Source: The Lady of the Lake (canto I, st. 21)
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What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully
my mother looks, and my father died within's two hours.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, ii)
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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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Falstaff at II, iv)
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And if you can be merry then, I'll say
A man may weep upon his wedding day.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Speaker at prologue)
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We never valued this poor seat of England,
And therefore, living hence, did give ourself
To barbarous license; as 'tis ever common
That men are merriest when they are from home.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Life of King Henry the Fifth (King Henry at I, ii)
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So the gods bless me,
When all our offices have been oppressed
With riotous feeders, when our vaults have wept
With drunken spilth of wine, when every room
Hath blazed with lights and brayed with minstrelsy,
I have retired me to a wasteful cock
And set mine eyes at flow.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Steward at II, ii)
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Berowne they call him; but a merrier man,
Within the limit of becoming mirth,
I never spent an hour's talk withal.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Love's Labor's Lost (Rosaline at II, i)
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To move wild laughter in the throat of death?
It cannot be; it is impossible:
Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Love's Labor's Lost (Berowne at V, ii)
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Be large in mirth; anon we'll drink a measure
The table round.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Macbeth (Macbeth at III, iv)
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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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Gratiano at I, i)
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For the heavens, he shows me where the bachelors sit, and there
live we as merry as the day is long.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Beatrice at II, i)
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(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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Pedro & Beatrice at II, i)
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(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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Pedro & Beatrice at II, i)
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I am not merry; but I do beguile
The thing I am by seeming otherwise.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Desdemona at II, i)
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Therefore they thought it good for hear a play
And frame your mind to mirth and merriment,
Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Messenger at induction, ii)
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Merrily, merrily shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Tempest (Ariel at V, i)
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Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way,
And merrily hent the stile-a.
A merry heart goes all the day,
Your sad tires in a mile-a.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Winter's Tale (Song at IV, iii)
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Address yourself to entertain them sprightly,
And let's be red with mirth.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Winter's Tale (Florizel at IV, iv)
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The glad circle round them yield their souls
To festive mirth, and wit that knows no gall.
Author: James Thomson (1)
Source: Seasons--Summer (l. 403)
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'Tis merry in hall
Where beards wag all.
- Thomas Tusser,
Author: Thomas Tusser
Source: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry--August's Abstract
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