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Quotes About Merriment

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.
~ Eileen Caddy
No man can be merry unless he is serious.
~ G. K. Chesterton
Happiness wishes everybody happy.
~ Victor Hugo
Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
~ Samuel Johnson
'Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
~ John Dryden
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
~ Francois Rabelais
It's lovely to see people so happy.
~ Louisa May Alcott, Jo's Boys
O merry, merry, merry, like only dogs know how to be happy and nothing more, with an absolute shameless nature.
~ Pablo Neruda
Promise me one thing: don't take me home until I'm drunk - very drunk indeed.
~ Audrey Hepburn
They say there are only two kinds of people on St. Patrick's Day: the Irish, and the people that drive them home.
~ Conan O'Brien
Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
~ John Donne
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
~ Mark Twain
Good-humor is the clear blue sky of the soul.
~ Arthur Frederick Saunders
By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the gravest philosopher.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
I can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times.
~ Carlos Ponce
He who laughs loudest has a high probability of being extremely inebriated.
~ Lois Greiman, Unscrewed
Without the door let sorrow lie, And if for cold it hap to die, We'll bury 't in a Christmas pie, And evermore be merry.
~ George Wither
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.
~ William Powell
We are nowhere forbidden to laugh.
~ John Calvin
The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
A good time for laughing is when you can.
~ Jessamyn West
If you're too serious to make life a laughing matter, then you seriously need to make laughter matter to you today and every day!
~ Jeannine M. Luby
You can't look dignified when you're having fun.
~ Aaron Allston, Solo Command
my delight is all in ioyfulnesse . . .
~ Edmund Spenser