Merrily Quotes

29 quotes by 26 authors

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
Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream. — Alice Munro
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
On the batâ€™s back I do fly After summer merrily. — William Shakespeare
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
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
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
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

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