Making Merry Quotes

#1. The world of men and women are making merry in the cemetery grounds. They are having sexual intercourse, God bless them, and I am alone in the Land of Fuck.

Henry Miller

#2. Happy Christmas" was their version of "Merry Christmas," and a better version, it seemed to him, for making merry was different from making happiness.

Michael D. O'Brien

#3. For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry.

Malaika Arora Khan

#4. 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

#5. If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you'd think I should like to share those good things; but I should like better to share in your trouble and your labour.

George Eliot

#6. 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

#7. So the swallow flew over the great city, and saw the rich making merry in their beautiful houses, while the beggars were sitting at the gates. He flew into dark lanes, and saw the white faces of starving children looking out listlessly at the black streets ...

Oscar Wilde

#8. The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.

Rabindranath Tagore

#9. Merry kept talking, but he lost the thread. She wandered closer. With the knots banished, she gripped the tail of the rope in her fist, making an L of her arm and winding the length around her elbow in uniform loops. Rough, rasping rope against that smooth, perfect skin. And Rob on his knees.

Cara McKenna

#10. When you haven't forgiven those who've hurt you, you turn back against your future. When you do forgive, you start walking forward.

Tyler Perry

#11. Despise not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance.

Horace

#12. Please hear me, Girl: The world has enough women who know how to do their hair. It needs women who know how to do hard and holy things.

Ann Voskamp

#13. My poems often start with an idea, some kind of inspiration. I don't expect anything. Every now and then something like "The One Truth" comes out.

Philip Schultz

#14. I, Larry Vail, do hereby confess
To murdering Merry in her little dress.
To strangling and raping and making a mess.
To all of these charges the answer is yes.

Rosalyn Drexler

#15. Free from desire, you realize the mystery
caught in the desire, you see only the manifestations.

Lao-Tzu

#16. Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.

Honore De Balzac

#17. Bertha kept things interesting, always shaky and a little unstable

Bambi Sparkles

#18. I ignore people who need me and latch on to people who don't. I dive into every other world except my own just because I want something more glamorous than my real life. I do destructive shit so a stupid hypocritical fish will like me.
I fall for fish instead of girls.

Hannah Moskowitz

#19. Countless forms make up this network. In this world, there are few of us.

Frederick Lenz

#20. We came in the wind of the carnival. A wind of change, or promises. The merry wind, the magical wind, making March hares of everyone, tumbling blossoms and coat-tails and hats; rushing towards summer in a frenzy of exuberance.

Joanne Harris

#21. For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good.

William Wordsworth

#22. I certainly wasn't Roger Deakins, but I felt like I could be.

Elle Schneider