"Frame your mind to mirth and merriment..." - Quote by William Shakespeare
Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.
More by William Shakespeare
“For I can raise no money by vile means. By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas”
“Have I thought long to see this morning’s face, And doth it give me such a sight as this?”
“I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I'll slay more gazers than the basalisks; I'll play the orator as well as Nestor, Decieve more slily that Ulysses could, And like a Sinon, take another Troy. I can add colors to the chameleon, Change shapes with Proteus for advantages And set the murderous Machiavel to school. Can I do this, and cannot get a crown? Tut! were it further off, I'll pluck it down.”
More on Joy
“Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.”
“Some glory in their birth , some in their skill , Some in their wealth , some in their bodies' force , Some in their garments, though new-fangled ill; Some in their hawks and hounds , some in their horse ; And every humor hath his adjunct pleasure , Wherein it finds a joy above the rest .”
“Isn’t it wonderful the way the world holds both the deeply serious, and the unexpectedly mirthful?”
More on Happiness
“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”
“Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.”
“Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.”