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Quotes About Merry

For the great Gaels of Ireland," wrote G. K. Chesterton, Are the men that God made mad. For all their wars are merry, And all their songs are sad.
~ Thomas Cahill
Welcome to the land where Christmas threw up.
~ Gayle Forman
A Frere ther was, a wantowne and a merye.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
inofensivo. Soy como una broma pesada
~ George Gamow
And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you - all of you on the good Earth.
~ Frank Borman
Possibly, some cynic, at once merry and bitter, had desired to signify, in this pantomimic scene, that we mortals, whatever our business or amusement--however serious, however trifling--all dance to one identical tune, and, in spite of our ridiculous activity, bring nothing finally to pass.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
In his day he was lazy and improvident and was quite incapable of thinking about tomorrow. If any money came his way, and it seldom did, he immediately bought gourds of palm-wine, called round his neighbors and made merry. He always said that whenever he saw a dead man's mouth he saw the folly of not eating what one had in one's lifetime. Unoka was, of course, a debtor, and he owed every neighbor some money, from a few cowries to quite substantial amounts.
~ Chinua Achebe
I've mostly been a happy-go-lucky kind of guy.
~ Jim O'Heir
Well, if ifs and nuts were candy and nuts, then we'd all have a Merry Christmas. (Serenity)
~ Kinley MacGregor
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
~ George Jean Nathan
My merry, merry, merry roundelayConcludes with Cupid's curse:They that do change old love for new,Pray gods, they change for worse!
~ George Peele
Merry have we met, and merry have we been; Merry let us part, and merry meet again; With our merry sing-song, happy gay, and free, With a merry ding-dong, happy let us be!
~ Old English Rhyme
Sunny and clear. Fate, here I stand, hat in hand, in my fifty-ninth year, a man of able body and a merry spirit. I'll take whatever work you have.
~ Ted Kooser
Evangelion (that we call the gospel) is a Greek word and signifieth good, merry, glad and joyful tidings, that maketh a man's heart glad and maketh him sing, dance, and leap for joy.
~ William Tyndale
CHAPTER IV—THOLOMYES IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY
~ Victor Hugo
Oh, it's a merry thing, this heart of yours," she said. "It's like a drink in a small glass on the deck of a storm-tossed ship or a shout in a fiery room.
~ Laird Hunt
I had always liked Biddulph. He was a spry old man with merry blue eyes and a monkish fringe of white hair that stood erect over his ears like the plumicorns of an owl. And as I surveyed the clutter of his study I was pleased to see that he was a man after my own heart. All of his money appeared to have been spent on either books or shelves to hold them.
~ Ross King, Ex-Libris, 1998
Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
~ Barry Gibb
The fashionable life of the capital shattered not merely the fortunes of men, but also their vigour of body and mind. That elegant world of fragrant ringlets, of fashionable mustachios and ruffles—merry as were its doings in the dance and with the harp, and early and late at the wine-cup—yet concealed in its bosom an alarming abyss of moral and economic ruin, of well or ill concealed despair, and frantic or knavish resolves.
~ Theodor Mommsen
Oh Mokona, you're such a tease! ~Fai D. Flowright
~ CLAMP
Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.
~ Charles Dickens
If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.
~ Charles Dickens
Christmas a humbug, uncle!" said Scrooge's nephew. "You don't mean that, I am sure?" "I do," said Scrooge. "Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? what reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough.
~ Charles Dickens
I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man.
~ Charles Dickens