Merrily Quotes
29 quotes by 26 authors
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Then sing, young hearts that are full of cheer, With never a thought of sorrow; The old goes out, but the glad young year Comes…
— Emily J. Miller
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Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.
— Alice Munro
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One evening, when I was yet in my nurse's arms, I wanted to touch the tea urn, which was boiling merrily ... My nurse would…
— John Ruskin
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We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. Cruelty... is a fundamental sin,…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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You don't have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness ... has to do with angst about death,…
— David Foster Wallace
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I don't like small birds. They hop around so merrily outside my window, looking so innocent. but I know that secretly, they're watching my every…
— Jack Handey
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You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more…
— Socrates
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Walking was not fast enough, so we ran. Running was not fast enough, so we galloped. Galloping was not fast enough, so we sailed. Sailing…
— Margaret Atwood
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I love a ballad but even too well if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed and sung lamentably.
— William Shakespeare
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Bell, thou soundest merrily, When the bridal party To the church doth hie! Bell, thou soundest solemnly, When, on Sabbath morning, Fields deserted lie!
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The Blossoms and leaves in plenty From the apple tree fall each day; The merry breezes approach them, And with them merrily play.
— Heinrich Heine
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Twelve Dancings are dancing, and taking no rest, And closely their hands together are press'd; And soon as a dance has come to a close,…
— Heinrich Heine
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Twere better far That gods should quaff their nectar merrily, And men sing out the day like grasshoppers, So may they haply lull the watchful…
— Hartley Coleridge
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To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening effect upon the…
— Baroness Orczy
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On the bat’s back I do fly After summer merrily.
— William Shakespeare
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Sir Thomas More was a victim of injustice and irony. Generously and meekly, just as he was about to be martyred, he said: Paul .…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and…
— Michel de Montaigne
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When forced to leave my house for an extended period of time, I take my typewriter with me, and together we endure the wretchedness of…
— David Sedaris
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The paintings that laughed at him merrily from the walls were like nothing he had ever seen or dreamed of. Gone were the flat, thin…
— Irving Stone
Who Wrote These Merrily Quotes
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