Merry Quotes

286 quotes by 220 authors

You can't allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, 'Merry Christmas?' Give me a… — Benjamin Carson
Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. — William Shakespeare
Christmas and the New Year are actually two holidays. So there is a plural, which in the English language, necessitates the use of 's.' I… — Jon Stewart
If all the skies were sunshine Our faces would be fain To feel once more upon them The cooling splash of rain. If all the… — Henry Van Dyke
The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn. — Hartley Coleridge
A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to the world! — Charles Dickens
Then came October, full of merry glee. — Edmund Spenser
I am not merry, but I do beguile the thing I am by seeming otherwise. — William Shakespeare
The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but the lower side… — Thomas Adams
It 's guid to be merry and wise, It 's guid to be honest and true, It 's guid to support Caledonia's cause, And bide… — Robert Burns
A merry companion is as good as a wagon. — John Lyly
The countless gold of a merry heart, The rubies and pearls of a loving eye, The indolent never can bring to the mart, Nor the… — William Blake
Hoc age ['do this'] is the great rule, whether you are serious or merry; whether ... learning science or duty from a folio, or floating… — Samuel Johnson
Look how the smaller birds greet the sun, with so much merry chirruping and so much outpouring of song! It is their way of expressing… — Paul Brunton
He is in youth swift, pliant and merry, and leapeth and rusheth on all thing that is before him; and is lead by a staw… — Bartholomeus Anglicus
That prayer has great power which a person makes with all his might. It makes a sour heart sweet, a sad heart merry, a poor… — Mechthild of Magdeburg
In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power; and… — Bartholomew Roberts
Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it. — George Eliot
A merry heart goes all the way, - A sad one tires inan hour. — William Shakespeare

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