Holiday Quotes - Page 2

• A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

  Garrison Keillor

  Love, Funny, Christmas

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

  Erma Bombeck

  Christmas, Spiritual, Morning

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.260, Open Road Media

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• If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.

  William Shakespeare

  Sports, Work, Memorable

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [226]

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• A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Retirement, Work, Definitions

  Misalliance preface (1914)

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• Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.

  Charles Lamb

  New Year, Years, Old Year

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1857). “The Works of Charles Lamb: Complete in One Volume. With a Sketch of His Life, by Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, D.C.L.”, p.345

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• If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.

  Tony Snow

  Thanksgiving, Thinking, Hands

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• After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Vacation, Busy, All The Best

  Kenneth Grahame (2016). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.5, Xist Publishing

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• Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.

  Bing Crosby

  Christmas, Xmas, Blessed

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• Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut.

  William Shakespeare

  Shops, Beggar, Romeo And Juliet Play

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 5, sc. 1, l. 72

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• If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.

  Bertrand Russell

  Christmas, Work, Math

  Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 5

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• Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.

  Dave Barry

  Christmas, Religious, Choices

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• I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.

  Henny Youngman

  Atheist, Christmas Wishes, Atheism

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.

  Bill McKibben

  Christmas, Reflection, Desire

  "Hundred Dollar Holiday: The Case For a More Joyful Christmas". Book by Bill McKibben, 1998.

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• Everyday is a holiday with me.

  Mariah Carey

  Everyday

  "Mariah Carey on Her New MAC Lipstick and How She Lives Every Day Like It's a Holiday". Interview with Glam Belleza Latina, www.glamour.com. November 23, 2015.

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• Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Christmas, Xmas, Real

  "Chicken soup for the soul Christmas treasury for kids" by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Patty Hansen, Irene Dunlap, HCI, (p. 1), 2002.

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• I have had a holiday, and I'd like to take it up professionally.

  Kylie Minogue

  Travel, Funny Christmas, Funny Holiday

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• Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.

  Jimmy Cannon

  Christmas, Lonely, Rejected

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• Marry an orphan: you'll never have to spend boring holidays with the in-laws.

  George Carlin

  Law, Boring, Orphan

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• No self-respecting mother would run out of intimidations on the eve of a major holiday.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mother, Running, Funny Christmas

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• The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Heart, Self, Silence

  'The Ladder of Saint Augustine' (1850)

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• Good news from heaven the angels bring,
  Glad tidings to the earth they sing:
  To us this day a child is given,
  To crown us with the joy of heaven.

  Martin Luther

  Christmas, Children, Angel

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• Vacation: Two weeks on the sunny sands - and the rest of the year on the financial rocks.

  Sam Ewing

  Vacation, Rocks, Years

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• Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Christmas, Xmas, Memories

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Yvonne Pope (2006). “Laura Ingalls Wilder's Prairie Wisdom”, p.68, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• With the advent of Twitter and Facebook and other social networking sites, genuine privacy can only be found by renting a private villa for a holiday. Hotels are now out of the question for my wife and I.

  Robert Powell

  Wife, Networking, Villa

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• Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

  William James

  Work, Men, Vacation

  William James (1987). “Essays, Comments, and Reviews”, p.4, Harvard University Press

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