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Tag Name "Merriment" (29)

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Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.
Samuel Johnson
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Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good judgment.
Hilaire Belloc
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O, sorrow! Why dost borrow Heart's lightness from the merriment of May?
John Keats
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Tiffs among the faggots were apparently the stuff of quiet merriment.
Josh Lanyon
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And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.
Lewis Carroll
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Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.
Robert Herrick
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This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.
Samuel Johnson
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Laughter is equally the expression of extreme anguish and horror as of joy: as there are tears of sorrow and tears of joy, so is there a laugh of terror and a laugh of merriment.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I have known sorrow - therefore I May laugh with you, O friend, more merrily Than those who never sorrowed upon earth And know not laughter's worth. I have known laughter - therefore I May sorrow with you far more tenderly Than those who never guess how sad a thing Seems merriment to one heart's suffering.
Theodosia Garrison
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Christmas is more than a time of music, merriment and mirth it is a season of meditation, mangers and miracles. Christmas is more than a time of carols, cards and candy it is a season of dedication and decision.
William Arthur Ward
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It would not be more unreasonable to transplant a favorite flower out of black earth into gold dust than it is for a person to let money-getting harden his heart into contempt, or into impatience, of the little attentions, the merriments and the caresses of domestic life.
William Mountford
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Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.
William Shakespeare
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Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.
Agnes Repplier
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Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.
C. S. Lewis
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I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.
D. H. Lawrence
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It make one's mouth hurt to speak with such forced merriment.
David Sedaris
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Seating themselves on the greensward, they eat while the corks fly and there is talk, laughter and merriment, and perfect freedom, for the universe is their drawing room and the sun their lamp. Besides, they have appetite, Nature's special gift, which lends to such a meal a vivacity unknown indoors, however beautiful the surroundings.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.
John Webster
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Life is not only merriment,It is desire and determination.
Khalil Gibran
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A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment.
Prince Philip
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Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
Samuel Johnson
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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
Sinclair Lewis
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These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment.
Wilfred Owen
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Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?
William Makepeace Thackeray
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