Definition of Mirth

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Definition of Mirth
	Mirth Merriment; gayety accompanied with laughter; jollity. That which causes merriment. Related Definitions: Accompanied, Gayety, Jollity, Laughter, Merriment, That, Which, With

Mirth Quotations

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
William Shakespeare

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
William Blake

Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
Henry Ward Beecher

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Joseph Addison

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.
Joseph Addison

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
James Thurber

Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.
Francis Quarles

The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.
Agnes Repplier

It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.
George Ade

I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.
Izaak Walton

Mirth Translations

mirth in Swedish is munterhet

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