Merry Quotes - Page 13

• Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: "Pipe a song about a Lamb." So I piped with merry cheer; "Piper, pipe that song again." So I piped; he wept to hear.

  William Blake

  Song, Cheer, Laughter

  'Songs of Innocence' (1789) introduction

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• Without marriage there will be no renunciation, Buddha would not have left the world - for what? His wife, Yashodhara, must have created the situation - Mahavira would not have escaped to the mountains. Without marriage there would have been no Buddha, no Mahavira. Just think: the history would have been very flat, without any salt, tasteless. Marriage keeps this whole "sorry-go-round" on and on. People call it "merry-go-round".

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Sorry, Thinking

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• You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no living with you, or without you.

  Martial

  Life, Without You, Morose

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• I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow rover, And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.

  John Masefield

  Life, Dream, Sweet

  'Sea Fever' (1902)

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• When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling; When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime; He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling; And listen to the merry village chime.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Cutting, Loss, Village

  William Schwenck Gilbert, “The Policeman's Lot”

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• Christmas Pie Lo! now is come our joyfull'st feast! Let every man be jolly; Each room with ivy leaves is dressed, And every post with holly. Now all our neighbours' chimneys smoke, And Christmas blocks are burning; Their ovens they with bakemeats choke, And all their spits are turning. Without the door let sorrow lie, And if for cold it hap to die, We'll bury it in a Christmas pie, And ever more be merry.

  George Wither

  Lying, Block, Men

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• Thou mak'st me merry: I am full of pleasure; let us be jocund

  William Shakespeare

  Joy, Pleasure

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Alexander Pope (1794). “Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor. Measure for measure”, p.64

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• If you outlaw half a million people you make martyrs of them. For example, if you outlaw Robin Hood, it is all very well, but if you outlaw a whole group of people around Robin Hood, then Robin Hood and his merry men become legends.

  Baldur von Schirach

  Men, People, Robins

  "The Nuremberg Interviews: Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses". Book by Leon Goldensohn, Random House, p. 237 (To Leon Goldensohn, March 10, 1946), 2010.

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• Through the clouds of smoke I seemed to see all old Asia before me, and the adventures of past years behind me. A carnival of old camp-scenes danced before my mind’s eye, expiring like shooting-stars in the night—merry songs which came to an end among other mountains and the dying sound of strings and flutes. And I was surprised that I had not had enough of these things and that I was not tired of the light of camp-fires.

  Sven Hedin

  Song, Stars, Eye

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• We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast, When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes, And a man with his back to the East.

  Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

  Wise, Eye, Men

  Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1954). “Collected Poems”

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• Your job is to do your job with all your heart to the best of your ability. Life will go it’s own merry way at it’s own pace. But if you do then you – and life – will be the richer for you being here.

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Jobs, Heart, Pace

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• You know, when I was nineteen, Grandpa took me on a roller coaster. Up, down, up, down. Oh, what a ride! I always wanted to go again. You know, it was just so interesting to me that a ride could make me so frightened, so scared, so sick, so excited, and so thrilled all together! Some didn't like it. They went on the merry-go-round. That just goes around. Nothing. I like the roller coaster. You get more out of it.

  Lowell Ganz

  Grandpa, Sick, Interesting

  "Fictional character: Grandma". "Parenthood", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• Many merry Christmases, many happy New Years. Unbroken friendships, great accumulations of cheerful recollections and affections on earth, and heaven for us all.

  Charles Dickens

  Friendship, Christmas, New Year

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• Although it's been said many times, many ways...Merry Christmas to you!

  Nat King Cole

  Merry Christmas, Way, Said

  Song: The Christmas Song

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• The long sleep of Mother Goddess is ended. May She awaken in each of our hearts - Merry meet, merry part, and blessed be.

  Starhawk

  Mother, Blessed, Heart

  "Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion". Book by Carol P. Christ and Judith Plaskow, 1979.

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• O merry, merry, merry, like only dogs know how to be happy and nothing more, with an absolute shameless nature.

  Pablo Neruda

  Happiness, Dog, Shameless

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.881, Macmillan

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• A merry Christmas to all my friends except two.

  W. C. Fields

  Christmas, Two, My Friends

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• Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt,
  And every grin so merry draws one out.

  John Wolcot

  Healing, Doubt, Nails

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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• Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare's kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry to Spain and Portugal. Literature allowed him to transcend his surroundings.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Kings, Europe, Spain

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• The spirit of Christmas lives with us. We are the protectors of the real tradition of Christmas-peace on Earth and Goodwill to all. We are the hope of Man-the only hope. Mankind's salvation lies within our hands. With our tech and ability we can create here on Earth a real heaven where men can be free. In our hands lies the power to restore to Man his determinism and all that he finds good in himself-his honesty, his integrity, and the thrill of being of real help to others. A very Merry Christmas to you all and a bright friendly new year.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  New Year, Honesty, Real

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• I'm going to retire undefeated. I'll take everybody out one-by-one then go on my merry way

  Ronda Rousey

  Goes On, Way, Undefeated

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• It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also enjoy the merry go round.

  Julie Andrews

  Enough, Brass, Enjoy

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• The sad reality is that all the well-meaning groups and individuals who challenge our permanent war economy and the doctrine of preemptive war, who care about sustainable energy, fight for civil liberties and want corporate malfeasance to end, were once again suckered by the Democratic Party. They were had. It is not a new story. The Democrats have been doing this to us since Bill Clinton. It is the same old merry-go-round, only with Obama branding.

  Chris Hedges

  War, Party, Fighting

  "The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress". Book by Chris Hedges, 2013.

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• A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.

  Patrick MacGill

  Home, Sight, Bird

  MacGill, Patrick (2017). “The Amateur Army”, p.36, Read Books Ltd

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• If you are for a merry jaunt, I will try, for once, who can foot it farthest.

  John Dryden

  Journey, Feet, Hiking

  William Whitehead, Mr. John Crown, Mr. John Dryden, Nicholas Rowe (1720). “A Select Collection of the Best Modern English Plays: Vol. IV.”, p.48

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