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)

“As I went on Yule day
In our procession,
Knew I jolly Jankin
By his merry tone—
Kyrie eleison.”
—Unknown. Jolly Jankin (l. Chorus.)

“At last came one of the merry troop,
The gayest laddie of all the group;

He paused beside her and whispered low,
‘I’ll help you cross, if you wish to go.””
—Mary Dow Brine (1816–1913)