Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
There is inestimable blessing in a cheerful spirit. When the soul throws its windows wide open, letting in the sunshine, and presenting to all who see it the evidence of its gladness, it is not only happy, but it has an unspeakable power of doing good.
Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.
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.
Whatever brief delights it provides, mere strangeness in poetry and prose eventually leaves us cold, especially when we suspect the writer is stretching for effect to avoid the actual life before his eyes.
A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.
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.