merriment quotes

By heaven of the returning rain, by earth splitting with verdure, surely it is a decisive word; it is no merriment.

-The Koran
Sura 86, l.11^14.

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.

- (Harry) Sinclair Lewis
  Arrowsmith, ch.25.

People ofthesametradeseldommeettogether, evenfor merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracyagainst the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

- Adam Smith
  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of theWealth of Nations, bk.1, ch.10, pt.2.