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)

    Fairy. Those that “Hobgoblin” call you, and “Sweet Puck,”
    You do their work, and they shall have good luck.
    Are not you he?
    Puck. Thou speakest aright;
    I am that merry wanderer of the night.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    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)