Nature's tears are Reason's merriment. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ]

Gold that buys health can never be ill spent.
Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment. [ John Webster ]

Frame your mind to mirth and merriment.
Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life. [ William Shakespeare ]

The craven's fear is but selfishness, like his merriment. [ Whittier ]

Flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar. [ William Shakespeare ]

Deep joy is a serene and sober emotion, rarely evinced in open merriment. [ Mme. Roland ]

Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me? [ Thackeray ]