Merry Quotes

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
William Shakespeare

Experience, Travel, Sad

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.
Lord Byron

Laugh, Joy, Voice

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
George Jean Nathan

Beauty, Men, Sad

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.
Washington Irving

Humor, Good, Laughter

A merry heart doeth good like medicine.
King Solomon

Good, Heart, Medicine

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.
King Solomon

Heart, Cheerful, Maketh

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 break. If people don't like it, yeah, they can go do something else.
Benjamin Carson

Christmas, Political, Mean

When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.
Queen Victoria

Marriage, Happy, Girl

I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.
Diane Kruger

Christmas, War, Made

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.
Matt Groening

Love, Gun, Dancing

When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.
Phyllis McGinley

Fool, Mind, May

I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years - you've got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and then go on your merry way and start again, in a sense, and that's what I've been doing.
Colin Hay

Famous, Yourself, Away

We've got horse property and there's other stuff to do. Like, four wheel driving, we barbeque, drink beers, sit around and play guitars and have a merry 'ol time.
Lita Ford

Time, Play, Around

As it fell upon a day in the merry month of May, sitting in a pleasant shade which a grove of myrtles made.
Richard Barnfield

May, Made, Month

I've been around the block a lot and I've had a merry trail for 55 years.
Jerry Stiller

Around, Trail, Block

I am all for the short and merry life.
Edward Fitzgerald

Size 8 is great! That is my new motto. I was a 14 and 6 and 12. I think it's healthy. I like to eat, drink and be merry!
Monica Potter

Great, Motto, Healthy

A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.
Patrick MacGill

Home, Bird, Singing

A merry companion is as good as a wagon.
John Lyly

Good, Companion, Wagon

In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just 'disappeared' as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.
Jeremiah Wright

Great, Black, America

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.
Elizabeth Montagu

Wise, Cannot, Easy

We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast, When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes, And a man with his back to the East.
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

Wise, Woman, Eyes

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