Holiday Quotes & Sayings

Holiday Quotes & Sayings

These holiday quotes, sayings and quotations are from our famous quotes collection.  Inspirational quotes, sayings and quotations.

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O!'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments. - Benjamin Franklin



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 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