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Quotes About Merry

I am a ham, I like to joke around.
~ Weyes Blood
O woman's counsel is so often cold! A woman's counsel brought us first to woe, Made Adam out of Paradise to go Where he had been so merry, so well at ease.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
I am never so happy as when I am really engaged in good earnest, & it makes me must wonderfully cheerful & merry at other times, which is curious & very satisfactory.
~ Ada Lovelace
We know the dear old rhyme: — "It is good to be merry and wise, It is good to be honest and true, It is good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new.
~ Anthony Trollope
He used to make merry over the cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
There was, to my mind, something eerie and ghost-like in the endless procession of faces which flitted across these narrow bars of light,—sad faces and glad, haggard and merry. Like all human kind, they flitted from the gloom into the light, and so back into the gloom once more.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I did not dance again but once, and that with Savona, who insisted that I join Shevraeth and Elenet in a set. Despite his joking remarks from time to time, the Marquis seemed more absent than merry, and Elenet moved, as always, with impervious serenity and reserve. Afterward the four of us went our ways, for Shevraeth did not dance again with Elenet. I know, because I watched.
~ Sherwood Smith
She laughed at herself when she saw that she had expected to be at once a heretic and a returned hero; she was very reasonable and merry about it; and it hurt just as much as ever.
~ Sinclair Lewis
We are soon approaching a refined holiday, "Merry Mas, " where Christ will be taken out of its context.
~ Anthony Liccione
So buxom, blithe, and debonair.
~ John Milton
There never was a merry world since the fairies left off dancing, and the Parson left conjuring.
~ John Selden
I am often merry at the jests of the constellations. Did you fancy that the stars were always serious? Only the dull never laugh, and the stars are very bright.
~ barker elsa iv
When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky.
~ Michael J. Fox
Typically, I'm very happy-go-lucky.
~ Y'lan Noel
as blithe as the May.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
When I was in the Far East, I was asked not to mention the Big Crunch, because of the effect it might have on the market. But the markets crashed, so maybe the story got out somehow. In Britain, people don't seem too worried about a possible end twenty billion years in the future. You can do quite a lot of eating, drinking and being merry before that.
~ Stephen Hawking
If ifs and buts were candies and nuts we'd all have a very Merry Christmas
~ Gillian Flynn
Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old.
~ Confucius
Hans kone, dronning Victoria Eugenia, sa om ham: Han er munter som en latiner, høflig som en habsburger, sportslig som en engelskmann, stolt som en spanjol og like egoistisk som enhver annen mann.
~ Jose Luis de Villalonga
Heap on the wood!-the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.
~ Sir Walter Scott
Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.
~ Sir Walter Scott
My merry, merry, merry roundelay Concludes with Cupid's curse, They that do change old love for new, Pray gods, they change for worse!
~ George Peele
Tis well to be merry and wise, 'Tis well to be honest and true; It is best to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new.
~ Charles Robert Maturin
From all the roofs and gables and old wooden houses in Gloucester came a thousand merry voices singing the old Christmas rhymes - all the old songs that ever I heard of, and some that I don't know, like Whittington's bells.
~ Beatrix Potter