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Quotes About Merriment

There's no fear when you're having fun.
~ Will Thomas
Little boy, Full of joy; Little girl, Sweet and small; Cock does crow, So do you; Merry voice, Infant noise; Merrily, merrily to welcome in the year.
~ William Blake
He had a face like a nutcracker; a scrawny man of no particular age, with merry secretive eyes.
~ William Faulkner
The grate desire ov mi life iz tew amuze sumboddy. I had rather be able to set the multiplikashun table tew sum lively tune than tew hav ein the author ov it.
~ Henry Wheeler Shaw
Now they are playing." (He heard through the door the distant sound of a song and its accompaniment.) "It's all the same to them, but they will die too! Fools! I first, and they later, but it will be the same for them. And now they are merry... the beasts!
~ Leo Tolstoy
If you're not entertaining, what the hell's the point?
~ letts tracy
They drew all manner of things—everything that begins with an M… such as mousetraps, and the moon, and memory, and muchness—you know you say things are "much of a muchness."
~ Lewis Carroll
You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.
~ Jeannette Walls
W]e should be mucking about all the time, because mucking about is enjoying life for its own sake, now, and not in preparation for an imaginary future. It's obvious that the mirth-filled man, the cheerful soul, the childish adult is the one who has least to fear from life.
~ Tom Hodgkinson
I just don't like the word 'fun'--it's like Volkswagen, or bell-bottoms, or patchouli-oil or bean-sprouts...it rubs me up the wrong way.
~ Tom Waits
Years had passed, and years had a bad name: a verse of Horace floated into his mind: Singula de nobis anni praedantur euntes; eripuere jocos, Venerem, convivia, ludum… and for a moment he tried to make a tolerable English version; but his The years in passing rob us of our delight, of merriment and carnal love, of each in turn, all sport and dining out… did not please him and he abandoned the attempt.
~ Patrick O'Brian
the mood is festive with a subtext of anarchy.
~ Paul Theroux
bimble beedle bom.
~ Dave Barry
Thus then lived this folk in much plenty and ease of life, though not delicately nor desiring things out of measure. They wrought with their hands and wearied themselves; and they rested from their toil and feasted and were merry: to-morrow was not a burden to them, nor yesterday a thing which they would fain forget: life shamed them not, nor did death make them afraid.
~ William Morris
And to be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour. No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there was a star danced, and under that was I born.
~ William Shakespeare
I drink to the general joy o' the whole table. Macbeth
~ William Shakespeare
I was born to speak all mirth and no matter.
~ William Shakespeare
As merry as the day is long.
~ William Shakespeare
A light heart lives long.
~ William Shakespeare
Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast!
~ William Shakespeare
Those that Hobgoblin call you and sweet Puck, You do their work, and they shall have good luck: Are not you he?' 'Thou speak'st aright; I am that merry wanderer of the night.
~ William Shakespeare
Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly: Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly: Then, heigh-ho, the holly! This life is most jolly.
~ William Shakespeare
Fill your tall goblets with white wine and red, And sing brave songs of gallant love and true, Wearing soft robes of emerald and blue, And dance, as I your dances oft have led, And laugh, as I have often laughed with you - And be most merry - after I am dead.
~ Winifred Holtby
Christmas dresser feeling pleasure
~ Unknown