Merry

Famous quotes containing the word merry:

“O! let me clip ye
In arms as sound as when I wooed, in heart
As merry as when our nuptial day was done
And tapers burnt to bedward!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“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)

“For the good are always the merry,
Save by an evil chance,
And the merry love the fiddle,
And the merry love to dance....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)