Holiday Quotes - Page 25

• My dream holiday would be a) a ticket to Amsterdam b) immunity from
  prosecution and c) a baseball bat.

  Terry Pratchett

  Baseball, Dream, Bats

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• I have a great confidence in the revelations which holidays bring forth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Revelations, Great Confidence

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

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• Wit must be without effort. Wit is play, not work; a nimbleness of the fancy, not a laborious effort of the will; a license, a holiday, a carnival of thought and feeling, not a trifling with speech, a constraint upon language, a duress upon words.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Play, Effort, Feelings

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.206

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• Consider, for example, and you will find that almost all the transactions in the time of Vespasian differed little from those of the present day. You there find marrying and giving in marriage, educating children, sickness, death, war, joyous holidays, traffic, agriculture, flatterers, insolent pride, suspicions, laying of plots, longing for the death of others, newsmongers, lovers, misers, men canvassing far the consulship and for the kingdom; yet all these passed away, and are nowhere.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Children, War, Pride

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• Every man in the time of courtship and in the first entrance of marriage, puts on a behavior like my correspondent's holiday suit.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Firsts, Suits

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.217

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• The schoolboy counts the time till the return of the holidays; the minor longs to be of age; the lover is impatient till he is married.

  Joseph Addison

  Age, Return, Lovers

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• the ultimate in longevity is the Christmas fruitcake. It is a cake made during the holidays with fruits that make it heavier than the stove it is cooked in.

  Erma Bombeck

  Cake, Fruit, Made

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• I've been going to Bamburgh for holidays since I was a child.

  Kevin Whately

  Children

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• The problem with being on the road - especially in a hot place like Florida - is that you can begin to think you're on holiday. You can partake of the buffet a little bit more than you should, so you have to have a routine.

  Boy George

  Thinking, Florida, Littles

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Turning pot handles the other way around on the stove, making sure you talk with your family and kids directly about fire safety and about kitchen safety, keeping your tree at least three feet from a heater or any kind of lights or flames, making sure that candles aren't left unattended. It's all things that we should know and we think about initially, but during the holidays, in the commotion it seems to get kind of lost.

  Charlie Barnett

  Kids, Thinking, Light

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• During the holidays it's like cooking central time so keeping it safe is an important part.

  Charlie Barnett

  Cooking, Important, Safe

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• For some unexplained reason, it's always the other end of the table that's wild and raucous, with screaming laughter and a fella who plays 'Holiday for Strings' on water glasses.

  Erma Bombeck

  Laughter, Play, Glasses

  Erma Bombeck (2011). “I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression”, p.11, Fawcett

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• whenever possible I avoid talking. Reprieve from talking is my idea of a holiday. At risk of seeming unsociable, which I am, I admit I love to be left in a beatific trance, when I am in one. Friendly Romans recognize that wish.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Talking, Ideas, Silence

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• A holiday isn't a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Fun, Plenty

  Louisa May Alcott (1871). “Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys”, p.8

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• I was watching the TV broadcasts interviewing people stranded at airports for days on end, losing their holidays, their important business meetings and the long-awaited ability to see their families... In short, suffering. No one complained, though! They kept repeating: we are so grateful for the care taken of our safety, for feeling. They were ready to surrender a good deal of their human dignity, individuality, freedom of choice.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Taken, Grateful, Airports

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• Do your homework in advance about the actual travel details so transportation issues do not define your holiday.

  Chris Hadfield

  Issues, Details, Homework

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• The emotional build-up and anticipation if you travel at Christmas can make it harder to enjoy a trip. I think sometimes it is better to travel outside of conventional holiday times for that reason.

  Chris Hadfield

  Emotional, Thinking, Anticipation

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I actually started the whole project some years ago with a live debut at Ancienne Belgique in Brussels. The focus was mainly on my favorite period of Billie Holiday, which was the late-50s Verve recordings, with essentially a small version of the Count Basie band.

  Jose James

  Years, Focus, Band

  Source: revive-music.com

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• Molly: You don't like New Years Eve? Are you insane? It's literally the best holiday ever. You just party all night and it doesn't matter what stupid stuff you do because the year's over and you get a brand new start in the morning.

  Hillary DePiano

  New Year, Morning, Stupid

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• Sell before the holidays. Stock prices tend to rise on the last trading day before major holidays.

  Nancy Dunnan

  Lasts, Stock Price, Trading

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• I just want to go back to rockin', but I'm uncertain as to what to actually do. The truth is, I never stopped thinking about rock'n'roll for a second that I'm on holiday.

  Joe Strummer

  Thinking, Rocks, Rock N Roll

  "Strummer on Man, God, Law - and the Clash". Interviewed with Richard Cromelin, articles.latimes.com. January 31, 1988.

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• Sharing holiday snaps on social media is an act of arrogant vanity.

  Jeremy Paxman

  Vanity, Media, Arrogant

  Source: www.ft.com

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• For me the process works best with no interruptions, no breaks in the steady application, no letters to be answered, very little social life, no holidays; it is therefore a form of happy imprisonment.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Letters, Littles, Break

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• As for literature – to introduce children to literature is to install them in a very rich and glorious kingdom, to bring a continual holiday to their doors, to lay before them a feast exquisitely served. But they must learn to know literature by being familiar with it from the very first. A child's intercourse must always be with good books, the best that we can find.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Book, Doors

  "Towards a Psychology of Education".

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• Whenever you give someone a present or sing a holiday song, you're helping Santa Claus. To me, that's what Christmas is all about. Helping Santa Claus!

  Louis Sachar

  Song, Giving, Santa

  Louis Sachar (2010). “Wayside School Gets A Little Stranger”, p.39, A&C Black

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