Merry

Famous quotes containing the word merry:

“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)

“In the merry month of May,
Sitting in a pleasant shade,
Which a grove of myrtles made,
Beasts did leap, and birds did sing,
Trees did grow, and plants did spring:
Every thing did banish moan,
Save the Nightingale alone.”
—Richard Barnfield (1574–1629)

“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)