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

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

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.