Holiday Quotes - Page 17

• Holidays, if you enjoy them, have no history.

  Rosamond Lehmann

  Enjoy, Ifs

  Rosamond Lehmann (1932). “A letter to a sister”

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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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• This Western culture of ours tends to sacrifice the full range of experience to a lower common denominator that's acceptable to more people; we end up with McDonald's instead of real food, Holiday Inns instead of homes, and USA Today instead of news and cultural analysis. And we do that with the rest of our lives.

  Kate Bornstein

  Real, Home, Sacrifice

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• I could be a school teacher and be rich. It has nothing to do with your money; it has to do with your knowledge. If I was a school teacher, I would be ten times richer because I have more time off! They get the summer off, holidays off, weekends off.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Summer, Teacher, School

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• A political action committee trying to raise money for a 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign is selling “Ready for Hillary” champagne glasses and Christmas ornaments. Because if one thing improves the holidays, it's drinking mixed with politics.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Drinking, Glasses, Political

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• I'd like to be able to go on holiday and not to have to hold my belly in for two whole weeks.

  Paul McCartney

  Two, Goes On, Able

  "Sir Paul McCartney 'Had Phone Hacked'". www.telegraph.co.uk. December 03, 2011.

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• Most of the holiday movies I enjoy, like 'It's a Wonderful Life,' don't really involve Santa.

  George Wendt

  Santa, Wonderful, Enjoy

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• If the very thought of taking off all your clothes in the middle of the Washington Mall during a school holiday makes you blush, you haven't even begun to dream what it feels like to publish a book.

  Nancy Mairs

  Dream, Book, School

  Nancy Mairs (1994). “Voice Lessons: On Becoming a (woman) Writer”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Some folks like to get away Take a holiday from the neighborhood. Hop a flight to Miami Beach Or to Hollywood But I'm talking a Greyhound On the Hudson River Line. I'm in a New York state of mind.

  Billy Joel

  Beach, New York, Talking

  "New York State of Mind" (song) (1976)

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• And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the checkered shade. And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday.

  John Milton

  Sunshine, Play, Dancing

  'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 94

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• Family planning experts are now recommending giving men vasectomy gift cards for the holidays. Talk about taking the jingle out of the bells.

  Jay Leno

  Men, Giving, Experts

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• Passion is for holidays, not homecoming.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Passion, Homecoming

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Written On The Body”, p.27, Random House

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• Work almost always has a double aspect: it is a bondage, a wearisome drudgery; but it is also a source of interest, a steadying element, a factor that helps to integrate the worker with society. Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Retirement, Work, Rejection

  Simone de Beauvoir (1972). “La vieillesse”

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• When I go on holiday, I go to places that have animals I'm interested in.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Animal, Goes On

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• Unfortunately much of it is frittered away on fast cars, designer clothes and an attitude to pleasure reminiscent of the 18-30 holiday packages.

  Ken Bates

  Soccer, Football, Attitude

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• The challenge for any government is how do you do two things at the same time. How do you put money forward for things like the payroll tax holiday, for things like getting a jump-start on infrastructure, for building schools, and make the decisions for long-term deficit reduction.

  Jacob Lew

  School, Two, Payroll Tax

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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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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• People recognise me when I'm holiday on the beach.

  Joanne Froggatt

  Beach, People, Recognise

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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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• 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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• 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 walked home, seeing all my doubt from the other side. Have you ever seen that? Like when you go on holiday. On the way back, everything is the same but it looks a little different than it did on the way. It's because you're seeing it backwards.

  Markus Zusak

  Home, Doubt, Different

  Markus Zusak (2011). “Underdogs”, p.84, Scholastic Inc.

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• There's something about a holiday that isn't all about how much money you spend.

  Hilarie Burton

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

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• Every November, during the certain holiday people love so much, people take a dead turkey, open up the dead turkey’s ass, or carve out a really big hole in their ass, take some stuffing and shove it inside their dead empty ass, and use the little dead ass as an oven to bake some bread. Somebody else’s dead empty bacteria-laden ass to make bread? Ass bread?! And people think vegans are weird? Because we eat tofu? And rice, and beans, and lentils?

  Gary Yourofsky

  Thinking, Turkeys, People

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• Holidays are also an opportunity for kids to unlearn every good habit they've learned during the rest of the year. They don't go to school. They get to stay up past their bedtime. They get candy and presents for doing nothing. Childhood utopia.

  Jim Gaffigan

  School, Kids, Opportunity

  Jim Gaffigan (2013). “Dad Is Fat”, p.222, Crown Archetype

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