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  • The merry-go-round was running, yes, but... It was running backward. The small calliope inside the carousel machinery rattle-snapped its nervous-stallion shivering drums, clashed its harvest-moon cymbals, toothed its castanets, and throatily choked and sobbed its reeds, whistles, and baroque flutes.

    Running   Moon   Cymbals  
    Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes: a novel”, Bantam
  • Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.

  • 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.

    Blow   Reason   Wailing  
    ?1773 'Let Us Be Merry Before We Go'.
  • Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise.

    Wise   Business   Light  
    George Chapman (1874). “The Works of George Chapman: Plays”, p.452
  • Let me set my mournful ditty To a merry measure; Thou wilt never come for pity, Thou wilt come for pleasure; Pity then will cut away Those cruel wings, and thou wilt stay.

    Cutting   Wings   Pity  
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1847). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.294
  • What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within's two hours.

    Mother   Father   Men  
    William Shakespeare (2016). “Hamlet: Revised Edition”, p.335, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.

    Song   War   Men  
    Ballad of the White Horse (1911) bk. 2, p. 35
  • For the good are always the merry, / Save by an evil chance,/ And the merry love the fiddle,/ And the merry love to dance: / And when the folk there spy me,/ They will all come up to me, / With,”Here is the fiddler of Dooney!” / And dance like a wave of the sea.

    Sea   Evil   Spy  
    William Butler Yeats, Colton Johnson (2000). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol X: Later Articles and Reviews: Uncollected Articles, Reviews, and Radio Broadcasts Written After 1900”, p.225, Simon and Schuster
  • I don't have any special passion for politics, it being a never-ending merry-go-round of bosses big and small, all generally mediocre. I actually find it boring.

    Passion   Boss   Special  
    "Elena Ferrante: 'Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing'". Interview with Deborah Orr, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2016.
  • My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?

  • If we choose to be offended when we don't get our own way, Then we're going to live constantly on the edge of anger. But if we say to ourselves, " A merry heart does good like a medicine," It'll make all the difference in the world.

    Charles R. Swindoll (1997). “Three Steps Forwards, Two Steps Back”, p.80, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

    Christmas   Xmas   Real  
    "Chicken soup for the soul Christmas treasury for kids" by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Patty Hansen, Irene Dunlap, HCI, (p. 1), 2002.
  • Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast." ~

  • I am never merry when I hear sweet music.

    Music   Sweet   Venice  
    'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 69
  • We feasted on love; every mode of it, solemn and merry, romantic and realistic, sometimes as dramatic as a thunderstorm, sometimes comfortable and unemphatic as putting on your soft slippers. She was my pupil and my teacher, my subject and my sovereign, my trusty comrade, friends, shipmate, fellow-soldier. My mistress, but at the same time all that any man friend has ever been to me.

    Marriage   Teacher   Men  
  • Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind; Teach us to be patient and always to be kind.

    Christmas   Xmas   Mind  
  • It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.

  • And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance.

    William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.60, Wordsworth Editions
  • I commend you, however, for passing the time in as merry a manner as you possibly could; it is assuredly better to go laughing than crying thro' the rough journey of life.

    Journey   Laughing   Cry  
    George Washington, David Maydole Matteson, United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission (1931). “The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799”
  • Everywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own good—only /they/ were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?

    Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.518, Vintage
  • Strew your gladness on earth's bed, So be merry, so be dead.

    War   Bed   Earth  
    Charles Hamilton Sorley (1978). “The poems and selected letters of Charles Hamilton Sorley”
  • 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?

    Pain   Men   People  
    Herman Melville (2016). “Redburn.His First Voyage”, p.208, Herman Melville
  • Earth, earthriding your merry-go-roundtoward extinction,right to the rootsthickening the oceans like gravy,festering in your caves,you are becoming a latrine.

    Ocean   Caves   Earth  
    Anne Sexton, “As It Was Written”
  • I love Christmas, not just because of the presents but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The cozy fire is bright and gay, The merry kettle boils away and hums a cheerful song. I sing the saucer and the cup; Pray, Mary, fill the teapot up, And do not make it strong

    Song   Strong   Gay  
    Barry Pain (1892). “Playthings and Parodies”, London [etc.] Cassell
  • You can't allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, 'Merry Christmas?' Give me a break. If people don't like it, yeah, they can go do something else.

    Christmas   Mean   People  
  • And to be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour. BEATRICE No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there was a star danced, and under that was I born.

    Mother   Stars   Hours  
    1598 Beatrice. Much Ado About Nothing, act 2, sc.1, l.313-14.
  • I love to go and mingle with the young In the gay festal room--when every heart Is beating faster than the merry tune, And their blue eyes are restless, and their lips Parted with eager joy, and their round cheeks Flush'd with the beautiful motion of the dance.

    Beautiful   Eye   Heart  
    Nathaniel Parker Willis (1856). “The poems, sacred, passionate, and humorous, of Nathaniel Parker Willis”, p.238
  • I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years - you've got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and then go on your merry way and start again, in a sense, and that's what I've been doing.

    Dust   Years   Goes On  
  • Then came October, full of merry glee.

    Autumn   Glee   October  
    Edmund Spenser (1758). “Spenser's Faerie queene”, p.323
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