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  • People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

    An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 1, bk. 1, ch. 10 (1776)
  • 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.

    Cheer   Hate   Kicking  
    D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2003). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.201, Cambridge University Press
  • These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment.

    Men   Tears   Merriment  
    Wilfred Owen (1965). “The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen”, p.40, New Directions Publishing
  • place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children. Here he spontaneously reveals his nature, the base as well as the noble. Here also he buries his sorrows and difficulties and cherishes his ideals and hopes. It is in the garden that men discover themselves. Indeed one discovers not only his real self but also his ideal self?he returns to his youth. Inevitably the garden is made the scene of man's merriment, escapades, romantic abandonment, spiritual awakening or the perfection of his finer self.

  • Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

    'The Idler' no. 58 (26 May 1759)
  • Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the world?" A great Shadow has departed," said Gandalf, and then he laughed and the sound was like music, or like water in a parched land; and as he listened the thought came to Sam that he had not heard laughter, the pure sound of merriment, for days upon days without count.

    Laughter   Land   Water  
    J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.640, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • 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 (1924). “Under dispute”
  • 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.
  • Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.

    Health   Gold   Hours  
    John Webster (1859). “The Works of John Webster: With Some Account of the Author, and Notes”, p.245
  • People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty or justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary.

    Law   Justice   People  
    An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 1, bk. 1, ch. 10 (1776)
  • I knew the poor, I knew the hideous death they die, when famine lays its bleak hand on the door; I knew the rich, sated with merriment, who yet are sad.

    Life   Knowledge   Doors  
    Hilda Doolittle (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.120, New Directions Publishing
  • An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married.

    Moving   Careers   Tears  
  • And mo the merier is a Prouerbe eke. [The more the merrier.]

  • 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.

    The Silence of the Sea On Statistics (p. 171)
  • 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.

    Running   Men   He Man  
    1925 Arrowsmith, ch.25.
  • By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the gravest philosopher.

    Humor   Water   Firsts  
  • Who would guess," he teased, "that I'd ever see you on a rooftop with straw in your hair?" Kit giggled. "Are you saying I've turned into a crow?" "Not exactly." His eyes were intensely blue with merriment. "I can still see the green feathers if I look hard enough. But they've done their best to make you into a sparrow, haven't they?

    Eye   Hair   Blue  
  • 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.

    Peace   Nature   Sleep  
    Lewis Carroll (2016). “Phantasmagoria”, p.190, Lewis Carroll
  • Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

    'The Tempest' (1611) act 5, sc. 1, l. 88
  • Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away.

    Charles Dickens (1873). “The Works of Charles Dickens”, p.162
  • An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.

    Sorrow   Mirth   Pounds  
    Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter: With a Life of the Author, and a Critical Examination of His Writings”, p.376
  • Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.

    Moving   Agony   Soul  
    1594-5 Biron. Love's Labour's Lost, act 5, sc.2, l.843.
  • Most of us agree that the United Nations is the vanguard of a foreign invasion and must be driven from our shores. Liberalism - Progressivism - all forms of left wing collectivism, are equally alien to the Founders' America and must be extirpated, root and branch, laughter and derision being the most effective weapons. Look at the way they have reduced Hillary Clinton to an insignificant greasy spot on the pages of history, turned Albert Gore into an object of merriment, and are accomplishing the same for Barry and Micky Obama.

    Laughter   Wings   Roots  
    "Revenge of the Cookie Monster". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. January 31, 2010.
  • School is established, not in order that it should be convenient for the children to study, but that teachers should be able to teach in comfort. The children's conversations, motion, merriment are not convenient for the teacher, and so in the schools, which are built on the plan of prisons, are prohibited.

    graf Leo Tolstoy (1967). “Tolstoy on Education”
  • This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

    James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 76 (March 1781)
  • There was a star danced, and under that was I born.

    Love   Birthday   Dance  
    'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 1, l. [348]
  • Tis ever common That men are merriest when they are from home.

    Home   Men   Common  
    1598-9 King Harry. HenryV, act1, sc.2, l.271-2.
  • With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. And let my liver rather heat with wine, than my heart cool with mortifying groans.

    Laughter   Heart   Wine  
    William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1805). “The plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators”, p.315
  • There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.

    Gnats   People   Ordinary  
    C. S. Lewis (2014). “Christian Reflections”, p.11, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
  • 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.

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