Merry

Famous quotes containing the word merry:

“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)

“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)

“Protest, evasion, merry distrust, and a delight in mockery are symptoms of health: everything unconditional belongs in pathology.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)