“ I never see that prettiest thing — A cherry bough gone white with Spring — But what I think, "How gay 'twould beTo hang me from a flowering tree. ”
- Dorothy Parker- Copy
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“ Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes; they turn, Like marigolds, toward the sunny side. ”
- Jean Ingelow- Copy
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“ A very merry, dancing, drinking, Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
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“ And the Baron's retainers were blithe and gay, And keeping their Christmas holiday. ”
- Thomas Haynes Bayly- Copy
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“ I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them. ”
- E. V. Lucas- Copy
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“ I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wish I liked the way it talks; And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun! ”
- Sir Walter Raleigh- Copy
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“ The real Oxford is a close corporation of jolly, untidy, lazy, good-for-nothing humorous old men, who have been electing their own successors ever since the world began and who intend to go on with it. They'll squeeze under the Revolution or leap over it when the time comes, don't you worry. ”
- C. S. Lewis- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- C. S. Lewis- Copy
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“ Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting. ”
- Craig Claiborne- Copy
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“ I've had to hold back certain things for legal reasons, or just out of common decency, but I think autobiography has got to be selected confessions, hasn't it? I could have said jolly things about some of the dreadful people I've spent my life with, but it would have been a cheat. ”
- Tom Baker- Copy
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“ Relying on journalists and stock-market professionals for one's view of the internet's future is like relying on a referendum of sugared-up 11-year-olds for an assessment of the Jolly Rancher and Pokemon industries. ”
- Kurt Anderson- Copy
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“ Lucky are the children who know there is a jolly fat man in a red suit who pilots a flying sleigh. We should envy them. And we should envy the people who are so certain Martians will land in their back yard that they keep a loaded Polaroid camera by the back door. ”
- Chris Van Allsburg- Copy
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