Quotes About Merry Making

#1. Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. 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

#3. He had a white beard and twinkly blue eyes, and all in all gave the impression of what Santa Claus would look like if he'd converted to Christian and gone without a good meal sine last Christmas.

Barbara Kingsolver

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago.

Eric Alterman

#7. 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

#8. Our fans have been branded with the same brush

Ron Atkinson

#9. 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

#10. I once tried being dramatic when I was fourteen. My mother told me to add it to the calendar.

Penny Reid

#11. If I don't fool you, I'm not doing my job as a magician.
If I make you feel foolish, I'm not doing my job as a human being.

Jerry Andrus

#12. Just as he was looking at all the stars and wondering how many millions there were, they started to blink on and off repeatedly. He knew it was the Bach flying overhead. He closed his eyes, squeezing them shut, and slipped off into a restless sleep.

Stephan Von Clinkerhoffen

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

Horace

#18. panic inspires gross errors in judgement (Kinsey Millhone)

Sue Grafton

#19. 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