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Quotes About Merriment

I love to laugh and well, who doesn't?
~ Selma Blair
Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts To courtship and such fair ostents of love As shall conveniently become you there.
~ William Shakespeare
I love kids; I think they are fun and funny.
~ Courtney Thorne Smith
And yet when King Laugh come, he make them all dance to the tune he play.
~ Bram Stoker
His tired face was lit with a brief beauty as he smiled, and the two nuns and Colonel Nicobar and Twingo smiled too, glad to find a common ground for merriment, however momentary. For a few seconds Stalin, Pope Pius the Twelfth, and King George the Sixth laughed together in the persons of their representatives.
~ Bruce Marshall
It's supposed to be jolly, with mistletoe and holly... and other things ending in olly.
~ Terry Pratchett
Well yes I think laughter is joyous, laughter is crucial. I think thats why I love comedy and thats why Im in comedy in the first place.
~ Mike Wozniak
If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.
~ Earl King
Oh, all kinds of lunacy happens in Ireland, all kinds of lunacy.
~ Anjelica Huston
So very many times over the next three years i heard her laughter - no silver bells or sweet rippling sounds was her laughter, but like a five-year-old's bellow of delight, a cross between a puppy's yelp, a motor-bike and a bicycle pump.
~ Fynn
Craddock is also credited with saying that the best way to drink a cocktail is "quickly, while it's laughing at you!
~ Gary Regan
It is quite possible to be a good Christian without ceasing to be a happy, merry-hearted man.
~ bronte anne ii
However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if any one man, in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be backward, but let him cheerfully allow himself to spend and to be spent in that way. And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.
~ Herman Melville
However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing , and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if any one man, in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be backward, but let him cheerfully allow himself to spend and be spent in that way. And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think.
~ Herman Melville
I'd have ye hold a canakin to the jet, and we'd drink round it! Yea, verily, hearts alive, we'd brew choice punch in the spread of his spout-hole there, and from that live punch-bowl quaff the living stuff.
~ Herman Melville
Ah, happiness courts the light, so we deem the world is gay
~ Herman Melville
Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile
~ Homer
Oh, it's all been such a lark.
~ Ian Fleming
She had a knack or weakness for laughing boisterously at her own anecdotes—not, I thought, because she found herself funny, but because she thought that life needed celebrating and wanted others to join in.
~ Ian Mcewan
A girl half my age swept by and slammed two giant tankard filled with beer on the table. Ragnvald held his up. I smashed my tankard against his. Beer splashed. We raised the tankard and pretended to take much bigger gulps than we did.
~ Ilona Andrews
PARTY STARTER.
~ Ilona Andrews
I used to run into lampposts. That was my party trick.
~ Paul Kaye
You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?'
~ Christopher Meloni
The drug of choice in the modern age is levity. We want everything to be light and bubbly. We just want to feel good.
~ Matt Chandler