Merry Quotes - Page 10

• Earth is a merry damsel, and heaven a knight so true

  Emily Dickinson

  Knights, Heaven, Earth

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.15, Harvard University Press

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• Middle-aged life is merry, and I love to lead it.

  Ogden Nash

  Life Is, Middle, Middle Aged

  Ogden Nash, “Peekabo, I Almost See You”

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• Fortune is merry,
  And in this mood will give us anything.

  William Shakespeare

  Success, Giving, Mood

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [271]

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• So, just for one more merry day To the great Tree the leaflets clung, Frolicked and danced and had their way, Upon the autumn breezes swung.

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Autumn, Tree, Way

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, “How The Leaves Came Down”

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• In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster.

  Walter Scott

  Beautiful, Lying, Book

  Sir Walter Scott (1854). “The Waverley novels: in twelve volumes, printed from the latest English editions, embracing the author's last corrections, prefaces, and notes”, p.360

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• What comfort there is in a cheerful spirit! how the heart leaps up to meet a sunshiny face, a merry tongue, an even temper, and a heart which either naturally, or, what is better, from conscientious principle, has learned to take all things on their bright side, believing that the Giver of life being all-perfect Love, the best offering we can make to Him is to enjoy to the full what He sends of good, and bear what He allows of evil!

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Believe, Heart, Offering

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 10), 1858.

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• I am never merry when I hear sweet music.

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Sweet, Venice

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 69

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• Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer...? If I could work my will," said Scrooge indignantly, "every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' upon his lips should be boiled with his won pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Christmas, Heart

  "A Christmas Carol". Book by Charles Dickens, 1843.

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• Eat, drink, and be merry is perfectly good in itself; nothing is wrong in it. But it is not enough. Soon you will get tired of it. One cannot just go on eating, drinking, and merrying. Soon the merry-go-round turns into a sorry-go-round - because it is repetitive. Only a very mediocre mind can go on being happy with it.

  Rajneesh

  Sorry, Drinking, Tired

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• It was clear: I was sick. I never used to dream. They say in the old days it was the most normal thing in the world to have dreams. Which makes sense: Their whole life was some kind of horrible merry-go-round of green, orange, Buddha, juice. But today we know that dreams point to a serious mental illness. And I know that up to now my brain has checked out chronometrically perfect, a mechanism without a speck of dust.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Dream, Orange, Dust

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (1993). “We: New Edition”, p.46, Penguin

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• Merry Christmas, I whisper to myself. Merry Christmas, Nate.

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Healing, Merry Christmas

  Lisa Ann Sandell (2009). “A Map of the Known World”, p.125, Scholastic Inc.

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• What You Lose on the Swings You Make Up on the Merry-Go-Round.

  George V. Higgins

  Swings, Merry Go Round, Rounds

  George V. Higgins (2012). “Defending Billy Ryan”, p.78, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment.

  William Shakespeare

  World, Compliment, Feigning

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. [110]

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• Merry Christmas to all. A Pagan holiday (BC) becomes a Religious holiday (AD). Which then becomes a Shopping holiday (USA).

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Religious, Holiday, Merry Christmas

  Twitter post from Dec 25, 2014

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• Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Horse, Laughter, Fun

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.140, Oxford University Press

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• O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Optimism, Troops, Trends

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• The [Jewish] Sabbath was not intended to be simply a desert of prohibitions, but rather an oasis for moral restoration and seemly pleasure-one was to eat, drink, even be merry.

  Israel Shenker

  Oasis, Desert, Restoration

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years - you've got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and then go on your merry way and start again, in a sense, and that's what I've been doing.

  Colin Hay

  Dust, Years, Goes On

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• Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.

  Caroline Knapp

  Lost, Alas, Concepts

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• Size 8 is great! That is my new motto. I was a 14 and 6 and 12. I think it's healthy. I like to eat, drink and be merry!

  Monica Potter

  Thinking, Healthy, Size

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• To horse and away To the heart of the fray! Fling care to the Devil for one merry day!

  William Henry Ogilvie

  Horse, Heart, Hunting

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• The Eucharist completes the restoration begun in the Crib. Make merry therefore on this beautiful day, on which the sun of the Eucharist is rising. Let your gratitude never separate the Crib from the Altar, the Word made flesh from the God-Man made Bread of Life in the Most Blessed Sacrament

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Beautiful, Gratitude, Blessed

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• And I leave the children the long, long days to be merry in in a thousand ways, and the Night, and the trail of the Milky Way to wonder at.

  Williston Fish

  Children, Night, Long

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• All of the pleasures of this present physical life can be continued into the next life as well, since we will have a body which is similar to our present physical body, but so much more glorious and wonderful and supernatural. We will be able to eat, drink, be merry and have fun without ever suffering pain or sickness or weariness or death.

  David Berg

  Fun, Pain, Suffering

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• 'Extinction' issue. Save the species for whom??? Humans' convenience, of course! Individuals of the species are snatched from their homes/family/habitat/held in captivity/forced to mate at great physical/ spiritual pain. When the right numbers are reached, their holocaust starts all over again! Another merry-go-round/ bu$ine$$ a$ u$ual!!! Protectionists/welfarists find it a profitable issue: no controversy/ easy donations! I'd rather see an entire species extinct than in the hands of the humans!

  Adela Popescu

  Spiritual, Pain, Home

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