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Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world. -- Arnold Bennett
Growing up, my idols were Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper. And Scottie Pippen. -- Dirk Nowitzki
Jolly boating weather, And a hay harvest breeze, Blade on the feather, Shade off the trees. -- William Johnson Cory
The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live. -- George Carlin
It was jolly in the country. A cow and little pigs to play with and milk warm from the cow. -- Georg Brandes
There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means. -- David Bowie
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
And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun! -- Walter Raleigh
A pacifist male is a contradiction in terms. Most self-described "pacifists" are not pacific; they simply assume false colors. When the wind changes, they hoist the Jolly Roger. -- Robert A. Heinlein
David Jolly is the only Republican I could find who`s really saying Donald Trump, you`re out, forget it, this is unacceptable, this is beyond the pale. -- Rachel Maddow
By high school, I was already tall - 5-foot-8 - and one day I made the mistake of wearing green tights. The football players all started calling me the Jolly Green Giant. -- Rene Russo
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
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! -- Walter Raleigh
What a jolly thing military surveillance is! -- Belle Boyd
There might be some credit in being jolly. -- Charles Dickens
A good jolly is worth what you pay for it. -- George Ade
Santa is very jolly because he knows where all the bad girls live. -- Dennis Miller
There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something. -- Prince Charles
I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly. -- Aldous Huxley
The man that isn't jolly after drinking is just a drivelling idiot, to my thinking. -- Euripides
All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I'm starting to realize that people are beginning to want to know about me. It's a jolly strange idea. -- A. N. Wilson
In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare. -- Dick Cavett
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. -- Mason Cooley
I've chosen to stay in a jolly place for most of my life, and that is a lot of who I am. -- Dawn French
Of course, this is the season to be jolly, but it is also a good time to be thinking about those who aren't. -- Helen Valentine
I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I have had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral -- Lord Mountbatten
One aspect of politics too little acknowledged is that besides being jolly serious and all that, it is also a hugely enjoyable game for boys. -- Andrew Marr
Somehow we just don't make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter. -- Frederica Mathewes-Green
With big folks, either people think you look mean or it's more of a jolly Santa Claus, 'Oh, he's just a pudgy little teddy bear pillow.' -- The Notorious B.I.G.
Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to come visit ... Santa, who was jolly - but, let's face it, he was also very judgmental. -- Julia Sweeney
I don't need to marry again. I've been married twice, and I love it when it works, but these days we live until we're 80 and marriages are jolly long. -- Joanna Trollope
You often see politicians who try to put on a different persona; they think they should be more jolly or serious. Invariably, the persona they choose is worse than their own. -- David Frost
They can certainly expect to be very impressed with the technical aspects of the show, fooled and led up the garden path by the story and ultimately have a jolly good laugh! -- Louise Jameson
The person who should really write an appreciation of the late great Dom DeLuise is Burt Reynolds, who, even more than Mel Brooks, made of the jolly, beanie wearing fat man a side-kick and a legend. -- Rich Cohen
A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring. -- Mary Wesley
Producing good stuff can be quite tough, and it involves a lot of frustration, but I always like things to be jolly and happy, and I forget that's actually not the point at the end of the day. -- Ewan McGregor
Sing hey! Sing hey! For Christmas Day; Twine mistletoe and holly. For a friendship glows In winter snows, And so let's all be jolly! At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year -- Thomas Tusser
They're very, uh, you know, I don't come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they're cool and bare minimum so it's not always a money issue for me. -- Shia LaBeouf
The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration. -- Sally Quinn
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. -- Terry Gilliam
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. -- Michael Haneke
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. -- Jack Nelson
Movie-making is serious business. The director and the crew are already under a lot of pressure to give their best to the audience. Therefore, the best part for me as an actor is to act well in the movies and make a jolly atmosphere with the co-stars on the sets. -- Abhishek Bachchan
It's usually a jolly good trick to pick up a local tour guide. They can tell you all the anecdotes that make a place interesting. I'm one for rushing off to museums at the crack of dawn, eating fabulous things on terraces for lunch, and enjoying long dinners on balmy evenings. -- Jane Birkin
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. -- Ngaio Marsh
I don't believe in things like that - fairies or brownies or magic or anything. It's old-fashioned.' 'Well, we must be jolly old-fashioned then,' said Bessie. 'Because we not only believe in the Faraway Tree and love our funny friends there, but we go to see them too - and we visit the lands at the top of the Tree as well! -- Enid Blyton
Have a holly jolly Christmas! -- Burl Ives
I like Hitler, jolly jolly Hitler. -- Phil Ochs
So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette. -- Geoffrey Chaucer
I am a freeman and jolly as a beggar. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
O! Tril-lil-lil-lolly the valley is jolly, ha! ha! -Elves of Rivendell -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Three jolly huntsmen, In coats of red, Rode their horses Up to bed. -- Walter de La Mare
I represent the jolly mass of mankind. I am the happy and reckless Christian. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I went to lose a jolly hour on the trolley and lost my heart instead. -- Ralph Blane
Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous. -- Jasper Fforde
Also, chubby people can never truly pull off ethereal the same way skinny people can never be jolly. -- Mindy Kaling
If you get to it, and you cannot do it, then there you jolly well are, aren't you? -- Lord Buckley
A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous. -- Alice Walker
I cant believe anybody would celebrate a holiday where a jolly prowler breaks into your house and leaves gifts. -- Squidward Tentacles
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We are in a results business, so Stuart Pearce being a jolly old boy won't keep me in a job. -- Stuart Pearce
Just take a look around you: Blood is flowing in rivers and in such a jolly way you'd think it was champagne. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin. -- Charlotte Rampling
A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin -- Charlotte Rampling
We love the kindly wind and hail, The jolly thunderbolt, We watch in glee the fairy trail Of ampere, watt, and volt. -- Ogden Nash
Harriet, Hi! Light of my eye! Come to the pictures and have a good cry, For it's jolly old Saturday, Mad-as-a-hatter-day, Nothing-much-matter-day-night! -- A. P. Herbert
I want Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D played at my funeral. If it isn't I shall jolly well want to know why. -- Sybil Thorndike
Mud and rain and wretchedness and blood. Why should jolly soldier-boys complain? God made these before the roofless Flood - Mud and rain. -- Siegfried Sassoon
It's better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol. -- Benjamin Franklin
Publishers of course have you altogether in their grip; if they say you must do a thing you have jolly well got to do it. -- Rose Macaulay
Somehow we just dont make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter. -- Frederica Mathewes-Green
This business of the working class is on its way out I think. After all, aren't I working class? I work jolly hard, I can tell you. -- Margaret Thatcher
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. -- Francis Beaumont
I am now scowling.""You are. And its adorable. But only in small doses.""Well, we cannot all be ridiculously jolly like you.""Ah, but we should. -- Chelsea Fine
I wish I loved the human Race, I wish I loved its silly face, and when I'm introduced to one, I wish I thought "what jolly fun"! -- Walter Alexander Raleigh
Members of the Order take vows of literacy, obstinancy and bibliomancy. Bibliomancy? It's defined for us a little further down: "Divination by jolly well Looking It Up. -- Marilyn Johnson
If you pass life by it's jolly well going to pass you by in the future. If you're frightened it's all right--that's no harm; fear is an emotion. -- E. M. Forster
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 -- Tim Burton
In our family, we don't have rifts. We have a jolly good row and then it's all over. And I've only twice ever had a row with my sister. -- Princess Margaret
Do not worry. Try to appear jolly and unconcerned. I have smiled often with the bases full with two strikes and three balls on the batter. This seems to unnerve. -- Rube Foster
And so the merry party began. It was one of those jolly, happy, bread-crumbling parties where you cough twice before you speak, and then decide not to say it after all. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Anyhow, I've learned one thing now. You only really get to know people when you've had a jolly good row with them. Then and then only can you judge their true characters! -- Anne Frank
Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves nothing; how jolly and easy they are in their minds. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships; they are quite unrelatable. If you and I were capable of being altogether house-trained and made jolly, we should be nicer people, but not writers. -- Elizabeth Bowen
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. -- Susan Fiske
O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still; Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill While the jolly hours lead on propitious May. -- John Milton
You think we're a family,' Cody said, turning back. 'You think we're some jolly, situation-comedy family when we're in particles, torn apart, torn all over the place, and our mother was a witch. -- Anne Tyler

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