Merry

Famous quotes containing the word merry:

    “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)

    “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)

    “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)