Merry

Famous quotes containing the word merry:

“Surrounded as we are by the wants and woes of our fellow-men, and yet given to follow our own pleasures, regardless of their pains, are we not like people sitting up with a corpse, and making merry in the house of the dead?”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“... is merry glory.
Is saltatory.
Yet he grips his right of twisting free.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

“Rather rejoicing to see another merry, than merry at anything which professed to make him rejoice; a gentleman of all temperance.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)