Holiday Sayings & Quotes
These holiday sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.No self-respecting mother would run out of intimidations on the eve of a major holiday. - Erma Bombeck
Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday. The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production. - Ayn Rand
How his eyes languish! how his thoughts adore That painted coat, which Joseph never wore! He shows, on holidays, a sacred pin, That touch'd the ruff, that touched Queen Bess' chin. - Edward Young
Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation. - Sir Winston Churchill
The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; the secret anniversaries of the heart. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays. - Aldous Huxley
May you have the greatest two gifts of all on these holidays: Someone to love and someone who loves you. - John Sinor
There were his young barbarians all at play There was their Dacian mother, he, their sire, Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday. - Lord Byron
If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work. [Henry IV, Part One] - William Shakespeare
Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools. - Lord Chesterfield
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds, how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song! - John Burroughs
A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours. - J. B. Priestley
The proper behaviour all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to. - P. J. O'Rourke
The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart, When the full river of feeling overflows; The happy days unclouded to their close; The sudden joys that our of darkness start As flames from ashes; swift desires that dart Like swallows singing down each wind that blows! - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow