Merry Quotes - Page 6

• I am all for the short and merry life.

  Edward Fitzgerald

  Life, Life Is Short, Inspire

  Edward FitzGerald (1962). “Selected Works”

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• Every company in America should be on its knees thanking Jesus for being born. Without Christmas, most American businesses would be far less profitable. More than enough reason for business to be screaming 'Merry Christmas.'

  Bill O'Reilly

  Jesus, Merry Christmas, America

  "Merry Christmas, Maybe". www.foxnews.com. November 29, 2005.

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• I've never been to a hotel with a rotating restaurant on top, but one time I took my girlfriend to a merry-go-round, and I gave her a burrito.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Girlfriend, Humor

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• I happened upon a memoir by a midlevel White House staffer, and he had been in the room that [Nixon's last] night [in office]. This guy's memoir told me what Nixon's last words were. And they were, on August 8, 1974, to the crew: "Have a Merry Christmas, fellas!" That was just so bizarre.

  Harry Shearer

  Merry Christmas, Night, White

  "How Harry Shearer Discovered the Soul of Richard Nixon". Interview with David Corn, www.motherjones.com. October 17, 2014.

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• I commend you, however, for passing the time in as merry a manner as you possibly could; it is assuredly better to go laughing than crying thro' the rough journey of life.

  George Washington

  Journey, Laughing, Cry

  George Washington, David Maydole Matteson, United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission (1931). “The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799”

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• Words can mean different things to different people. It is important to understand what people mean when they use a certain word. Let's make an example. Take the word gay. Fifty years ago, gay meant exclusively cheerfulness, lighthearted excitement, merry or bright colors. Today this word has a different meaning. You won't call a cheerful person gay because it could be understood as something else.

  Ali Sina

  Mean, Gay, Color

  Source: myislam.dk

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• Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts
  To courtship and such fair ostents of love
  As shall conveniently become you there.

  William Shakespeare

  Courtship, Fairs, Wooing

  William Shakespeare (1805). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.357

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• Marriage hath in it less of beauty but more of safety, than the single life; it hath more care, but less danger, it is more merry, and more sad; it is fuller of sorrows, and fuller of joys; it lies under more burdens, but it is supported by all the strengths of love and charity, and those burdens are delightful.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Love, Lying, Safety

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1848). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Sermons”, p.211

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• Strew your gladness on earth's bed,
  So be merry, so be dead.

  Charles Sorley

  War, Bed, Earth

  Charles Hamilton Sorley (1978). “The poems and selected letters of Charles Hamilton Sorley”

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• My travels have always been of the same kind. No matter where I've gone or why I've gone there it ends up that I never see anything. Becoming a movie star is living on a merry-go-round. When you travel you take the merry-go-round with you. You don't see natives or new scenery. You see chiefly the same press agents, the same sort of interviewers, and the same picture layouts of yourself.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Stars, Gone, Agents

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.181, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• Resolve to be merry though the ship were sinking.

  Susanna Centlivre

  Courage, Ships, Sinking

  Susanna Centlivre (1872). “The wonder. The man bewitch'd. Gotham election. Wife well managed. Bickerstaff's burial. Bold stroke for a wife. Artifice”, p.357

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• Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise.

  George Chapman

  Wise, Business, Light

  George Chapman (1874). “The Works of George Chapman: Plays”, p.452

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• When I was five years old I was on a merry go round. There was a gunshot nearby. The horses stampeded. There I was running down the street on a purple wooden horse.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Running, Horse

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• It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it.

  Ben Stein

  Ghetto, Merry Christmas, Thinking

  Ben Stein (2010). “The Real Stars: In Today's America, Who Are the True Heroes?”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There the Bush Administration has offered only a merry-go-round policy. They got up on their high horse, whooped and hollered, rode around in circles and ended right back where they'd started.

  John F. Kerry

  Horse, Circles, Administration

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• Be merry, really merry. The life of a true Christian should be a perpetual jubilee, a prelude to the festivals of eternity.

  Theophane Venard

  Christian, Jubilee, Festivals

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• Our loving God wills that we eat, drink and be merry.

  Martin Luther

  Drink, Loving God, Gods Will

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• O' who will walk with me along lifes merry way? A comrade blithe and full of glee, who dares to laugh out loud and free.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Laughing, Glee, Way

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The works of Henry Van Dyke”

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• It is permissible to use wine not only for necessity, but also to make us merry...... [it must be moderate] lest men forget themselves, drown their senses,.....in making merry [those who enjoy wine] feel a livelier gratitude to God.

  John Calvin

  Gratitude, Wine, Men

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• When I write a film, the film gets handed off to a producer and a director and I go my merry way. With television, I am expected and contracted to stick around and actually produce what I've written.

  Marc Guggenheim

  Writing, Television, Way

  "'Arrow's Marc Guggenheim Talks New Comic 'Jonas Quantum,' DC Crossovers & More". Interview with Andrew Dyce, screenrant.com. May 13, 2015.

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• Be merry; you have cause, so have we all, of joy; for our escape is much beyond our loss . . . . then wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort.

  William Shakespeare

  Loss, Joy, Sorrow

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1778). “Prefaces. The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor.- v.2. Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost.- v.3. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming the shrew.- v.4. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night. Winter's tale. Macbeth.- v.5 King John. King Richrd II. King Henry IV, parts I-II.- v.6. King Henry V. King Henry VI, parts I-III.- v.7 King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Coriolanus.- v.8. Julius Cæ”

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• In case anyone would like to know, we have now entered the Christmas season. Christmas as in Jesus Christ. This is not the "happy holidays" season. ...Don't "Happy Holidays" me because I will "Merry Christmas" you in return.

  Lyn Nofziger

  Jesus, Holiday, Merry Christmas

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• If we choose to be offended when we don't get our own way,
  Then we're going to live constantly on the edge of anger.
  But if we say to ourselves, " A merry heart does good like a medicine,"
  It'll make all the difference in the world.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Heart, Medicine, Differences

  Charles R. Swindoll (1997). “Three Steps Forwards, Two Steps Back”, p.80, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I am that merry wanderer of the night.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Dead Poets Society, Midsummer

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.129

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• Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit;
  There is no cure 'gainst age but it. and
  'Tis late and cold, stir up the fire;
  Sit close and draw the table nigher;
  Be merry and drink wine that is old,
  A hearty medicine 'gainst the cold.

  John Fletcher

  Heart, Wine, Fire

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