Merry Quotes - Page 9

• Some who are far from atheists, may make themselves merry with that conceit of thousands of spirits dancing at once upon a needle's point.

  Ralph Cudworth

  Atheist, Dancing, May

  Ralph Cudworth (1845). “The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated : with a Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality”, p.251

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Let me set my mournful ditty To a merry measure; Thou wilt never come for pity, Thou wilt come for pleasure; Pity then will cut away Those cruel wings, and thou wilt stay.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Cutting, Wings, Pity

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1847). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.294

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Rap, rap! upon the well-worn stone, How falls the polished hammer! Rap, rap! the measured sound has grown A quick and merry clamor. Now shape the sole! now deftly curl The glassy vamp around it, And bless the while the bright-eyed girl Whose gentle fingers bound it!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Girl, Rap, Fall

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Songs of Labor and Reform From Volume III., the Works of Whittier: Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform”, p.32, tredition

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When Walt Whitman writes in seeming defiance of tradition, he needs tradition for his protection, for the butcher and the baker and the candlestick-maker grow merry over him when they meet his work by chance.

  William Butler Yeats

  Writing, Bakers, Needs

  William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran, George Bornstein (2007). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The years between thirty-five and sixty-five revolve before the passive mind as one unexplained, confusing merry-go-round. True, they are a merry-go-round of ill-gaited and wind-broken horses, painted first in pastel colors, then in dull grays and browns, but perplexing and intolerably dizzy the thing is, as never were the merry-go-rounds of childhood or adolescence; as never, surely, were the certain-coursed, dynamic roller-coasters of youth. For most men and women these thirty years are taken up with a gradual withdrawal from life.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Horse, Taken, Men

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2008). “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories”, p.369, Penguin

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Earth, earthriding your merry-go-roundtoward extinction,right to the rootsthickening the oceans like gravy,festering in your caves,you are becoming a latrine.

  Anne Sexton

  Ocean, Caves, Earth

  Anne Sexton, “As It Was Written”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting.

  Washington Irving

  Wine, Oil, Ingredients

  Washington Irving (2006). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book”, p.178, Penguin

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• A merry companion is as good as a wagon, For you shall be sure to ride though ye go a foot.

  John Lyly

  Feet, Wagons, Companion

  4 Copy quote

• The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious ... it has need of a wise and merry philosophy.

  Lin Yutang

  Wise, Philosophy, Believe

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• So why would you care To get out of this place? You and me and all our friends, Such a happy human race. Eat, drink and be merry, For tomorrow we die.

  Dave Matthews

  Race, Care, Tomorrow

  6 Copy quote

• A Miami judge issued Florida's first gay marriage license yesterday, which makes it the 36th state to legally perform gay marriages. Of course, most Florida residents are too old to understand what that means. They'll say, 'Well, I think all marriages should be gay, and merry.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Mean, Gay, Thinking

  4 Copy quote

• 'Twas merry when You wagered on your angling, when your diver Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he With fervency drew up.

  William Shakespeare

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen (2009). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.55, Palgrave Macmillan

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Despise not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance.

  Horace

  Sweet, Love Making, Despise

  5 Copy quote

• I love to go and mingle with the young
  In the gay festal room--when every heart
  Is beating faster than the merry tune,
  And their blue eyes are restless, and their lips
  Parted with eager joy, and their round cheeks
  Flush'd with the beautiful motion of the dance.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Beautiful, Eye, Heart

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1856). “The poems, sacred, passionate, and humorous, of Nathaniel Parker Willis”, p.238

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Singing has nothing to do with the affairs of this world: it is not for the law. Singers are merry, and free from sorrows and cares.

  Martin Luther

  Law, Singing, Sorrow

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1872). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.340

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The oil and wine of merry meeting.

  Washington Irving

  Wine, Humor, Oil

  Washington Irving (1846). “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon”, p.206

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; still she remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of his childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy.

  Washington Irving

  Mother, Brother, Children

  11 Copy quote

• All are not merry that dance lightly.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1871). “The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum”, p.247

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• But touch me, and no minister so sore.
  Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time
  Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme,
  Sacred to ridicule his whole life long,
  And the sad burthen of some merry song.

  Alexander Pope

  Song, Long, Sacred

  Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1839). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In 1 volume”, p.128

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  6 Copy quote

• 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

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  William Shakespeare

  World, Compliment, Feigning

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

  7 Copy quote

  Show source