Merry

Famous quotes containing the word merry:

    “Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, waggery, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “A short life and a merry one, my buck!
    We used to say we’d hate to live dead-old,—
    Yet now . . . I’d willingly be puffy, bald,
    And patriotic.”
    —Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)