“As merry as the day is long.”

— William Shakespeare , Hamlet

Beatrice, Act II, scene i.
Much Ado About Nothing (1598)
Source: Hamlet

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English playwright and poet 1564–1616

Richard Barnfield (1574–1627) English poet

Ode http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/128.html, l. 1. Alternately, Address to the Nightingale; historically misattributed to William Shakespeare.
Poems: In Divers Humours (1598)
Context: As it fell upon a day
In the merry month of May,
Sitting in a pleasant shade
Which a grove of myrtles made,
Beasts did leap, and birds did sing,
Trees did grow, and plants did spring;
Every thing did banish moan,
Save the nightingale alone.

“On a busy day twenty-two thousand people come to visit Santa, and I was told that it is an elf's lot to remain merry in the face of torment and adversity. I promised to keep that in mind.”

David Sedaris (1956) American author

“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." ~”

Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American writer

“Life is not long at all, never long enough, but days are very long indeed.”

Martha Gellhorn (1908–1998) journalist from the United States

“Although all days are equally long regardless of the season, some days are long not only seasonally but by rewards they offer.”

Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman

Chance http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/chance-29/
From the poems written in English

“Be the day short or be the day long, at last it weareth to evening song.”

Lucy Maud Montgomery book Anne of Windy Poplars

Part 1, Ch. 13
Anne of Windy Poplars (1936)

“Sweet childish days, that were as long
As twenty days are now.”

William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet

To a Butterfly (I've Watched You Now a Full Half-Hour), st. 2 (1801).

“The days are long, but the years are short.”

Gretchen Rubin (1966) American writer

Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

“Good days and long nights to ya, sai.”

Stephen King book Wizard and Glass

Variant: Long days and pleasant nights.
Source: Wizard and Glass

“The years are too short, the days are too long.”

Joseph Heller book Something Happened

Something Happened (1974)

“As merry as the day is long.”

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