Top 97 Be Merry Quotes
#2. I cannot understand how anyone conscious of mortal sin can laugh or be merry.
Thomas Aquinas
#3. But as in wailing there's nought availing, And Death unfailing will strike the blow, Then for that reason, and for a season, Let us be merry before we go.
John Philpot Curran
#4. So why would you care To get out of this place? You and me and all our friends, Such a happy human race. Eat, drink and be merry, For tomorrow we die.
Dave Matthews
#5. Come on, forget your troubles and enjoy yourself. Tonight, there is no tomorrow. Eat, drink and be merry.
Diana Palmer
#6. Without the door let sorrow lie,
And if for cold it hap to die,
We'll bury 't in a Christmas pie,
And evermore be merry.
George Wither
#7. Let us e'er be merry while we may, for man is but dust, and he hath but a span to live here till the worm getteth him, as our good gossip Swanthold sayeth; so let life be merry while it lasts, say I.
Howard Pyle
#8. Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,And therefore let 's be merry.
George Wither
#10. Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts
To courtship and such fair ostents of love
As shall conveniently become you there.
William Shakespeare
#11. Strew your gladness on earth's bed,
So be merry, so be dead.
Charles Sorley
#12. I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.
Elizabeth Montagu
#13. Come live, and be merry, and join with me, To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he!
William Blake
#14. To be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour.
William Shakespeare
#15. You can be merry with the king, you can share a joke with him. But as Thomas More used to say, it's like sporting with a tamed lion. You tousle its mane and pull its ears, but all the time you're thinking, those claws, those claws, those claws.
Hilary Mantel
#16. My ethic is: 'Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.' You can be as careful as you want, but you're going to die anyway, so why not have fun?
Lemmy Kilmister
#17. And I leave the children the long, long days to be merry in in a thousand ways, and the Night, and the trail of the Milky Way to wonder at ...
Williston Fish
#18. All life is a jest, Imhotep - and it is death who laughs last. Do you not hear it at every feast? Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you die.
Agatha Christie
#19. Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you may be dead.
Pauline Parker
#20. Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we may diet.
Cathy Hopkins
#21. Warfare leaves a residue of 'eat drink and be merry' that often leads inexorably to moral breakdown.
Frank Herbert
#22. Size 8 is great! That is my new motto. I was a 14 and 6 and 12. I think it's healthy. I like to eat, drink and be merry!
Monica Potter
#23. 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
#24. Our loving God wills that we eat, drink and be merry.
Martin Luther
#26. It 's guid to be merry and wise, It 's guid to be honest and true, It 's guid to support Caledonia's cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.
Robert Burns
#28. My father toasted me mockingly with his glass. "Then eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow you die."
"Next week," Hades interrupted.
Zeus glowered at him. "Yes, obviously, but I was using a metaphor."
"No," his brother replied. "You were paraphrasing. Badly.
Tellulah Darling
#29. I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white.
Irving Berlin
#30. What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within's two hours.
William Shakespeare
#31. Tis well to be merry and wise,
'Tis well to be honest and true;
It is best to be off with the old love,
Before you are on with the new.
Charles Robert Maturin
#32. Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit;
There is no cure 'gainst age but it. and
'Tis late and cold, stir up the fire;
Sit close and draw the table nigher;
Be merry and drink wine that is old,
A hearty medicine 'gainst the cold.
John Fletcher
#33. Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit
Of This and That endeavor and dispute;
Better be merry with the fruitful Grape
Than sadden after none, or bitter, fruit.
Omar Khayyam
#34. Live, Life, and Be Merry.
Unknown
#35. Be merry if you are wise.
Martial
#36. Don't let this anger ruin your life any more than it already has. If you want to every achieve happiness, don't dwell on the past. Instead, start living. What is the point of obsessing that has already happened, and that you cannot change? Live! And be merry.
Kien Nguyen
#37. Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine,
Yet let's be merry; we'll have tea and toast;
Custards for supper, and an endless host
Of syllabubs and jellies and mincepies,
And other such ladylike luxuries.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#38. All too soon will Childhood gay Realise Life's sober sadness. Let's be merry while we may, Innocent and happy Fay! Elves were made for gladness!
Lewis Carroll
#39. How soon this mightiness meets misery; And if you can be merry then, I'll say A man may weep upon his wedding-day.
William Shakespeare
#40. a favourite couplet of Dunbar's sums up his view of the whole duty and delight of Man:
Man, please thy Maker and be merry
And give not for this world a cherry.
Jocelyn Gibb
#41. It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
Thomas More
#42. The [Jewish] Sabbath was not intended to be simply a desert of prohibitions, but rather an oasis for moral restoration and seemly pleasure-one was to eat, drink, even be merry.
Israel Shenker
#43. One need not be merry to be useful. One does, however, need to be alive.
S.A. Bolich
#44. I'll be merry and free, I'll be sad for nae-body; If nae-body cares for me, I'll care for nae-body.
Robert Burns
#45. Enjoy your life. No curse hangs over you, nor did it ever. No devil chases after your soul. Sing and dance and be merry.
Christopher Pike
#46. Christmas a humbug, uncle!" said Scrooge's nephew. "You don't mean that, I am sure?"
"I do," said Scrooge. "Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? what reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough.
Charles Dickens
#47. Aye, then. Come and dance with the Ech'lon. You can be me bloody retinue. King o' Fools and 'is merry band o' jesters. If they don't laugh us out o' the tower, it'll be a bleedin' miracle.
Bec McMaster
#48. My dad sung and played piano. But he was also a man of God. He was a minister. So when Sam Cooke would come in town, you know, with The Soul Stirrers at that time, he was singing gospel, they would end up at my dad's church, and it would always be a guest singer for Sunday morning.
Merry Clayton
#49. I knew how to sing in choirs and sing in church, but I didn't know how to sing in a studio. That's what Darlene and the Blossoms taught me to do - to be a studio singer.
Merry Clayton
#50. Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one sustained by fear, caution, and perpetual medical surveillance.
Henry Miller
#51. I say 'Merry Christmas' to people I don't know, or to people I know are Christians. I say 'Happy Hanukkah' to people I know to be or suspect to be Jewish. And I don't say 'Happy Kwanzaa,' because I think African Americans get enough insults all year round.
Christopher Hitchens
#52. Merry Christmas me bollocks. The words of the Pogues's 'Fairytale of New York' also came to mind: surrounded by scumbags and maggots, I prayed God it would be my last in Los Teques.
Paul Keany
#53. It is permissible to use wine not only for necessity, but also to make us merry ... [it must be moderate] lest men forget themselves, drown their senses, ... in making merry [those who enjoy wine] feel a livelier gratitude to God.
John Calvin
#54. When I sound the fairy call, gather here in silent meeting,
Chin to knee on the orchard wall, cooled with dew and cherries eating.
Merry, merry, take a cherry, mine are sounder, mine are rounder,
Mine are sweeter for the eater, when the dews fall, and you'll be fairies all.
Emily Dickinson
#55. Well, it is strange that I who gave birth to her, and was a woman then, should be alive and merry now, and she lying there: so cold and stiff! Lord, Lord! - to think of it; it's as good as a play - as good as a play!
Charles Dickens
#56. It's "Merry Christmas" at our house. Whatever it is at yours, have a happy one. And be good to somebody.
Stephen King
#57. Every idiot who goes about with a 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.
Charles Dickens
#58. If you'd have told me two weeks ago that one day I'd be part of a not-so-merry band of Necros seeking to exterminate a couple of other magic-born gangs, I'd have given you directions to the strait-jacket factory.
David Estes
#59. Merry a mind is
of a weeping willow
roots raising concrete
be in
fit out
all abstract.
Antonia Perdu
#60. Girls should be strong together. Strong like steel, merry like the tinkling of chimes dancing in the wind.
Kristin Halbrook
#61. The Prince's fool! Ha, it may be I go under that title because I am merry. Yea, but so I am apt to do myself wrong.
William Shakespeare
#62. Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.
Jane Austen
#63. I shall never be very merry or very sad, for I am more prone to analyse than to feel.
H.P. Lovecraft
#64. Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#65. Life is mean! Don't lose your humour jacket. You'll really need it.
Nike Thaddeus
#66. We are soon approaching a refined holiday, "Merry Mas," where Christ will be taken out of its context.
Anthony Liccione
#67. Sometimes it's good to be sad, Merry. Don't forget that.
Paul Tremblay
#68. O merry, merry, merry, like only dogs know how to be happy and nothing more, with an absolute shameless nature.
Pablo Neruda
#69. Be bold, but wary! Keep up your merry hearts, and ride to meet your fortune!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#70. Life isn't a merry-go-round, it's a roller coaster. Life won't always be smooth, it may not always be pretty, but it will be an adventure - one not to be missed.
Robert Glover
#71. No two people will ever see or feel things in the same way, Merry. The challenge is to be truthful when you write. Don't approximate. Don't settle for the easiest combination of words. Go searching instead for those that explain exactly what you think. What you feel.
Kate Morton
#72. Every company in America should be on its knees thanking Jesus for being born. Without Christmas, most American businesses would be far less profitable. More than enough reason for business to be screaming 'Merry Christmas.'
Bill O'Reilly
#73. Child of the kindly West, I have come to know, if more of us valued your ways - food and cheer above hoarded gold - it would be a merrier world. But sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#74. We all had parts to play, we all had costumes to wear, we all had to be as merry as we could be, for the King was always laughing this winter and the Queen never stopped smiling.
Philippa Gregory
#75. You have to be a dead-eyed dirty-souled maniac to want to spend your extended life trading punches with other maniacs. Once you've seized that power, there's no getting off the merry-go-round. You fight like hell just to hold on or you get shoved off.
Scott Lynch
#76. Your path is not my path. Should we meet at the crossroads and ye be a friend, tarry a while, drink some wine and let us laugh for a while. If ye be foe, continue on your merry way and may our paths never cross again.
Virginia Alison
#77. I started with Bobby Darin. He signed me to Capitol when I was 15. I was 14, getting ready to be 15. Then the next encounter I had was with I think Peggy Lee. I sang background with The Blossoms with Darlene Love.
Merry Clayton
#78. I wish that all those, who on this night are not merry enough to speak before they think, may ever after be grave enough to think before they speak!
Ann Radcliffe
#79. I felt like if I just gave my heart to what I was doing, I would automatically be a star.
Merry Clayton
#80. Come landlord fill a flowing bowl until it does run over,
Tonight we will all merry be
tomorrow we'll get sober.
John William Fletcher
#81. Merry hearts are vulnerable to death, don't be over-joyed to the state of oblivion, lest the enemy poison your meal.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#82. Hoc age ['do this'] is the great rule, whether you are serious or merry; whether ... learning science or duty from a folio, or floating on the Thames. Intentions must be gathered from acts.
Samuel Johnson
#83. There was no anger in his voice, no disappointment even. It was as if he'd given up on me. He pulled his keys out of his pocket. I should be going now. Merry Christmas, Nick
Carl Deuker
#84. This better be shit you can handle without Merry gettin' a pissed off look, Cher. 'Cause you pissed off gives me a quiver. Merry pissed off might mean I'm in the dark with a shovel and a flashlight, coverin' a brother's ass by buryin' bodies.
Kristen Ashley
#85. For he had acquired a lore in his youth which taught him ever to avoid the aged when merry plans were afoot; for the aged would come with their wisdom and slowness of thought, and other plans would be made, and there would be, at least, delay.
Lord Dunsany
#86. If you wou'd have Guests merry with your cheer, Be so your self, or so at least appear.
Benjamin Franklin
#87. The sensation felt like spinning too fast on a merry-go-round. Each fraction of a second her eyes focused on a new face in a crowd. Within seconds the face was gone, whisked to a blur, replaced by another face that would just as soon be lost.
Heidi Julavits
#88. If there's one thing I could wish for right now, it would be to have one of those horses from the merry-go-round - they were the most exciting thing to go on as a kid.
Deborah Mailman
#89. She laughed at herself when she saw that she had expected to be at once a heretic and a returned hero; she was very reasonable and merry about it; and it hurt just as much as ever.
Sinclair Lewis
#90. The man hates your guts more than Stryker does. You'll be lucky if he doesn't pull your spine out through your nostrils. (Tory)
Nice to have Miss Merry Sunshine back again. Any other Eeyore outlooks you'd like to share? (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#91. The sun does arise,
And make happy the skies.
The merry bells ring
To welcome the spring.
The skylark and thrush,
The birds of the bush,
Sing louder around,
To the bells' cheerful sound,
While our sports shall be seen
On the echoing green.
William Blake
#92. No!" said Thorin. "There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. But sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell!" Then
J.R.R. Tolkien
#93. To all the Callahan's Places there ever were or ever will be, whatever they may be called - and to all the merry maniacs and happy fools who are fortunate enough to stumble into one: may none of them arrive too late!
Spider Robinson
#94. A Miami judge issued Florida's first gay marriage license yesterday, which makes it the 36th state to legally perform gay marriages. Of course, most Florida residents are too old to understand what that means. They'll say, 'Well, I think all marriages should be gay, and merry.'
Jimmy Fallon
#96. O be not anxious, comrades, fear ye not! The siuation here hath been controll'd. All merry 'tis in the detention block! ...
That conversation did my spirits bore! Now Luke, prepare thyself for company.
Ian Doescher
#97. If I could work my will," said Scrooge indignantly, "every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should.
Charles Dickens
