Merry Quotes
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Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music.
Martin Luther
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I am never merry when I hear sweet music.
William Shakespeare
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A merry life and a short one shall be my motto.
Bartholomew Roberts
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Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.
Diogenes
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Come live, and be merry, and join with me, To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he!
William Blake
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I was modest--they accused me of being crafty: I became secretive. I felt deeply good and evil--nobody caressed me, everybody offended me: I became rancorous. I was gloomy--other children were merry and talkative. I felt myself superior to them--but was considered inferior: I became envious. I was ready to love the whole world--none understood me: and I learned to hate.
Mikhail Lermontov
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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 who would not balance creditor on this side, when all the hazard that is run for it, at worst, is only a sour look or two at choking. No, a merry life and a short one, shall be my motto.
Bartholomew Roberts
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This is the short and the long of it.
William Shakespeare
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Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
William Shakespeare
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Thou mak'st me merry: I am full of pleasure; let us be jocund
William Shakespeare
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Heaven give you many, many merry days.
William Shakespeare
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Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment.
William Shakespeare
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To be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour.
William Shakespeare
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It is daffodil time, so the robins all cry, For the sun's a big daffodil up in the sky, And when down the midnight the owl call to-whoo! Why, then the round moon is a daffodil too; Now sheer to the bough-tops the sap starts to climb, So, merry my masters, it's daffodil time.
Clinton Scollard
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And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance.
William Butler Yeats
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Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.
Jane Austen
