Merry Quotes - Page 13

• The long sleep of Mother Goddess is ended. May She awaken in each of our hearts - Merry meet, merry part, and blessed be.

  Starhawk

  Mother, Blessed, Heart

  "Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion". Book by Carol P. Christ and Judith Plaskow, 1979.

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• The days are cold, the nights are long, The North wind sings a doleful song; Then hush again upon my breast; All merry things are now at rest, Save thee, my pretty love!

  Dorothy Wordsworth

  Good Night, Song, Wind

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.160

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• If you outlaw half a million people you make martyrs of them. For example, if you outlaw Robin Hood, it is all very well, but if you outlaw a whole group of people around Robin Hood, then Robin Hood and his merry men become legends.

  Baldur von Schirach

  Men, People, Robins

  "The Nuremberg Interviews: Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses". Book by Leon Goldensohn, Random House, p. 237 (To Leon Goldensohn, March 10, 1946), 2010.

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• Through the clouds of smoke I seemed to see all old Asia before me, and the adventures of past years behind me. A carnival of old camp-scenes danced before my mind’s eye, expiring like shooting-stars in the night—merry songs which came to an end among other mountains and the dying sound of strings and flutes. And I was surprised that I had not had enough of these things and that I was not tired of the light of camp-fires.

  Sven Hedin

  Song, Stars, Eye

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• We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast, When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes, And a man with his back to the East.

  Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

  Wise, Eye, Men

  Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1954). “Collected Poems”

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• Christmas Pie Lo! now is come our joyfull'st feast! Let every man be jolly; Each room with ivy leaves is dressed, And every post with holly. Now all our neighbours' chimneys smoke, And Christmas blocks are burning; Their ovens they with bakemeats choke, And all their spits are turning. Without the door let sorrow lie, And if for cold it hap to die, We'll bury it in a Christmas pie, And ever more be merry.

  George Wither

  Lying, Block, Men

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• Thou mak'st me merry: I am full of pleasure; let us be jocund

  William Shakespeare

  Joy, Pleasure

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Alexander Pope (1794). “Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor. Measure for measure”, p.64

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• If there were dreams to sell,
  Merry and sad to tell,
  And the crier rung his bell,
  What would you buy?

  Thomas Lovell Beddoes

  Love, Dream, Bells

  'Dream-Pedlary'

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• You know, when I was nineteen, Grandpa took me on a roller coaster. Up, down, up, down. Oh, what a ride! I always wanted to go again. You know, it was just so interesting to me that a ride could make me so frightened, so scared, so sick, so excited, and so thrilled all together! Some didn't like it. They went on the merry-go-round. That just goes around. Nothing. I like the roller coaster. You get more out of it.

  Lowell Ganz

  Grandpa, Sick, Interesting

  "Fictional character: Grandma". "Parenthood", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• Many merry Christmases, many happy New Years. Unbroken friendships, great accumulations of cheerful recollections and affections on earth, and heaven for us all.

  Charles Dickens

  Friendship, Christmas, New Year

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• Although it's been said many times, many ways...Merry Christmas to you!

  Nat King Cole

  Merry Christmas, Way, Said

  Song: The Christmas Song

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• When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling; When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime; He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling; And listen to the merry village chime.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Cutting, Loss, Village

  William Schwenck Gilbert, “The Policeman's Lot”

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• Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare's kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry to Spain and Portugal. Literature allowed him to transcend his surroundings.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Kings, Europe, Spain

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• The spirit of Christmas lives with us. We are the protectors of the real tradition of Christmas-peace on Earth and Goodwill to all. We are the hope of Man-the only hope. Mankind's salvation lies within our hands. With our tech and ability we can create here on Earth a real heaven where men can be free. In our hands lies the power to restore to Man his determinism and all that he finds good in himself-his honesty, his integrity, and the thrill of being of real help to others. A very Merry Christmas to you all and a bright friendly new year.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  New Year, Honesty, Real

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• God rest you merry, gentlemen,
  Let nothing you dismay,
  For Jesus Christ, our Saviour,
  Was born upon this day,
  To save us all from Satan's power
  When we were gone astray.
  O tidings of comfort and joy!
  For Jesus Christ, our Saviour,
  Was born on Christmas Day.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Christmas, Jesus, Comfort And Joy

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• Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if ''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Christmas, Laughter, Sadness

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Complete Poetry of Rudyard Kipling: Complete 570+ Poems in One Volume: Songs from Novels and Stories, The Seven Seas Collection, Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads, An Almanac of Twelve Sports, The Five Nations, The Years Between…”, p.56, e-artnow

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• There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.

  John Selden

  Dance, Dancing, World

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• And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dance, Ireland And The Irish, Fiddle

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.60, Wordsworth Editions

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• Heat energy of uniform temperature [is] the ultimate fate of all energy. The power of sunlight and coal, electric power, water power, winds and tides do the work of the world, and in the end all unite to hasten the merry molecular dance.

  Frederick Soddy

  Hard Work, Fate, Science

  Frederick Soddy (1912). “Matter and energy”

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• So Spring comes merry towards me here, but earns
  No answering smile from me, whose life is twin'd
  With the dead boughs that winter still must bind,
  And whom today the Spring no more concerns.
  Behold, this crocus is a withering flame;
  This snowdrop, snow; this apple-blossom's part
  To breed the fruit that breeds the serpent's art.
  Nay, for these Spring-flowers, turn thy face from them,
  Nor stay till on the year's last lily-stem
  The white cup shrivels round the golden heart.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Art, Spring, Flower

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Frank Laurence Lucas (1933). “Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Anthology”, p.169, CUP Archive

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• I'm going to retire undefeated. I'll take everybody out one-by-one then go on my merry way

  Ronda Rousey

  Goes On, Way, Undefeated

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• It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also enjoy the merry go round.

  Julie Andrews

  Enough, Brass, Enjoy

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• The sad reality is that all the well-meaning groups and individuals who challenge our permanent war economy and the doctrine of preemptive war, who care about sustainable energy, fight for civil liberties and want corporate malfeasance to end, were once again suckered by the Democratic Party. They were had. It is not a new story. The Democrats have been doing this to us since Bill Clinton. It is the same old merry-go-round, only with Obama branding.

  Chris Hedges

  War, Party, Fighting

  "The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress". Book by Chris Hedges, 2013.

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• If you are for a merry jaunt, I will try, for once, who can foot it farthest.

  John Dryden

  Journey, Feet, Hiking

  William Whitehead, Mr. John Crown, Mr. John Dryden, Nicholas Rowe (1720). “A Select Collection of the Best Modern English Plays: Vol. IV.”, p.48

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• Be merry all, be merry all,
  With holly dress the festive hall;
  Prepare the song, the feast, the ball,
  To welcome merry Christmas.

  William Spencer

  Christmas, Song, Hollies

  William Robert Spencer (1835). “Poems”, p.203

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