Winter Holiday Quotes - Page 2

• I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year.

  Ray Stannard Baker

  Christmas, Xmas, Holiday

  Ray Stannard Baker (1910). “Adventures in Friendship”

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• The secret anniversaries of the heart.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Birthday, Time, Heart

  'The Ladder of Saint Augustine' (1850)

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• Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Christmas, Money

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.136, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Year's end, all
  corners of this
  floating world, swept.

  Matsuo Basho

  Holiday, Winter, Years

  Matsuo Basho, “Year’s End,”

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• In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.

  Christina Rossetti

  Nature, Travel, Winter

  'Mid-Winter'

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• I heard you've been having some problems with your girlfriend." Headmistress Northcutt says. "No," I say. "Not at all." Audrey broke up with me after the winter holiday, exhausted by my moodiness. It's impossible to have problems with a girlfriend who's no longer mine.

  Holly Black

  Girlfriend, Holiday, Winter

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• My wife and I always have a winter holiday that I call the "fly and flop". In January and February, you don't want culture, you just want to get your bones warm and eat, drink, sleep. We usually go to the Caribbean.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Holiday, Sleep, Winter

  "Alan Titchmarsh: 'I went white-water rafting in Costa Rica... I'm just thankful I stayed afloat'". Interview with Sarah Ewing, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 10, 2016.

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• I remember being banned from other houses as a younger child during the winter holiday season; I was the only one who didn't believe in Santa Claus, and I was ruining everyone's Christmas.

  Jami Attenberg

  Children, Believe, Holiday

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