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  • I am afraid of people because they want me to lead the same kind of life as they do. They want me to dance jolly and cheerful things. I do not like jollity. I love life.

  • O! Tril-lil-lil-lolly the valley is jolly, ha! ha! -Elves of Rivendell

    Valleys   Jolly  
  • Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.

    Lying   Poverty   Etc  
  • Growing up, my idols were Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper. And Scottie Pippen.

  • Three jolly huntsmen, In coats of red, Rode their horses Up to bed.

    Horse   Bed   Three  
    Walter de la Mare, “The Huntsmen”
  • There might be some credit in being jolly.

    Growth   Credit   Might  
    Charles Dickens (2017). “The Complete Novels of Charles Dickens: 20 Illustrated Classics in One Volume: Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield…”, p.3228, e-artnow
  • There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.

    People   Disaster   Jolly  
    "Prince Charles shocked by 'tragedy' of flood failures on Somerset visit" by Steven Morris, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2014.
  • We do not wait for inspiration. We work because we've jolly well got to. But when all is said and done, we toil at this particular job because it's turned out to be our particular job, and in a weird sort of way I suppose we may be said to like it.

  • And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!

    Fun   Wish   Age  
    "Wishes of an Elderly Man" l. 1 (1923)
  • It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

    Life   Change   Wisdom  
    C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.181, Simon and Schuster
  • Anything free is worth what you pay for it.

    Sacrifice   Pay   Jolly  
    Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.330, Penguin
  • HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous.

    Heart   Laughing   Humour  
    Alice Walker (1990). “The Temple of My Familiar”
  • We're deep into the holiday gift-giving season, as you can tell from the fact that everywhere you look, you see jolly old St. Nick urging you to purchase things, to the point where you want to slug him right in his bowl full of jelly.

  • Mayor: How horrible our Christmas will be! Jack Skellington: *No.* [the Mayor switches to his upset face] Jack Skellington: How *jolly*! Mayor: Oh. How *jolly* our Christmas will be.

    Upset   Faces   Mayors  
    "The Nightmare Before Christmas". www.imdb.com. 1993.
  • Scouting is not an abstruse or difficult science: rather it is a jolly game if you take it in the right light. In the same time it is educative, and (like Mercy) it is apt to benefit him that giveth as well as him that receives.

    Light   Games   Benefits  
    "Aids to Scoutmastership". Book by Robert Baden-Powell, 1919.
  • So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette.

    Jolly  
    "Canterbury Tales". Book by Geoffrey Chaucer, The Reeve's Tale, line 4,155, 1387.
  • I represent the jolly mass of mankind. I am the happy and reckless Christian.

  • It is important to remember that these are your Declining Years, in which you can jolly well decline to do what you don't feel like doing, unless not doing it would make you feel worse than doing it.

    Years   Important   Aging  
    Peg Bracken (1996). “On Getting Old for the First Time”, Bookpartners
  • Have a holly jolly Christmas!

    Song: Overture and a Holly Jolly Christmas
  • Frosty the snowman was a jolly happy soul. With a corncob pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of coal. Frosty the snowman is a fairy tale they say. He was made of snow but the children know how he came to life one day.

  • If you have an effect that nobody can replicate, then your phenomenon fades away. So if you want to to have a legacy, then you jolly well better have an effect that replicates.

    Legacy   Want   Wells  
    "We talked to the scientist at the center of a brutal firestorm in the field of psychology". Interview with Rafi Letzter, www.businessinsider.com. September 26, 2016.
  • Nose, nose, jolly red nose,And who gave thee that jolly red nose?Nutmegs and ginger, cinammon and cloves;And they gave me this jolly red nose.

    Noses   Red   Ginger  
  • All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.

    Real   People   Democracy  
  • People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.

    Writing   Dark   Artist  
  • Most friendship is faining, most loving mere folly: Then, heigh-ho, the holly. This life is most jolly.

  • The landscape was snow and green ice on broken mountains. These weren't old mountains, worn down by time and weather and full of gentle ski slopes, but young, sulky, adolescent mountains. They held secret ravines and merciless crevices. One yodel out of place would attract, not the jolly echo of a lonely goatherd, but fifty tons of express-delivery snow.

    Lonely   Echoes   Ice  
    Terry Pratchett (2009). “Reaper Man: (Discworld Novel 11)”, p.342, Random House
  • In its jolly mission to expose the dark underbelly of the children’s book world, Wild Things! turns up stories I’ve been hearing noised about for ages, but with a lot more detail and authenticity. The stories may not be quite as sordid as my own imagination had conjured up—although a few of them are—because there’s no denying that this field is full of mostly nice people!—but it’s all fun and a great read for anyone interested in both children’s books and the collection of people who make them.

    Children   Fun   Nice  
  • My ball is in a bunch of fern, A jolly place to be; An angry man is close astern- He waves his club at me. Well, let him wave-the sky is blue; Go on, old ball, we are but two-We may be down in three, Or nine-or ten-or twenty-five-It matters not; to be alive, Is good enough for me.

    Golf   Men   Blue  
    A.P. Herbert (2014). “Mild And Bitter”, p.20, House of Stratus
  • A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin

    Book   Skins   Film  
  • Fantasy isn't just a jolly escape: It's an escape, but into something far more extreme than reality, or normality. It's where things are more beautiful and more wondrous and more terrifying. You move into a world of conflicting extremes.

    Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 05, 2003.
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