#mirth

Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#solitude #the-house-of-mirth #life

I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#life

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#laughter #mirth #old #wrinkles

It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#insignificance #unpopularity #vanity #vanity

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

#human #human life #life #mirth #offered

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

#appreciative #audience #cannot #chuckle #comedy

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

#cheerfulness #clouds #daylight #fills #flash

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

— George Ade

#cold #dawn #gray #laughter #mirth

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

— Agnes Repplier

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