Quotes of Festivity - somelinesforyou

“ The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed. ”

- Germaine Greer

“ Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda water the day after. ”

- Lord Byron

“ So tedious is this day As is the night before some festival To an impatient child that hath new robes And may not wear them. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ It is better to spend your time at funerals than at festivals. For you are going to die, and you should think about it while there is still time. (7:3). ”

- Ecclesiastes

“ I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays! ”

- Norman Rockwell

“ I used to hang out with Salvador Dali a lot. He was such a nice man. I really liked his wife Gala, too. People say that she was tricky, but she was never difficult with me. ”

- Jerry Hall

“ I find it odd at 47 that I can go to festivals and be in the company of groups that are much younger and we are playing a not-dissimilar set. ”

- Chris Bailey

“ He would want us to feel like it's a celebration. ”

- Tony Oliva

“ Its going to be a squeeze, but we have got to put our men and women in uniform ahead of everything else. We've got to be treating our reservists fairly before we move on to other procurements. ”

- Mark Dayton

“ You usually don't see this type of celebration when the Yankees win a division. ”

- Alex Rodriguez

“ It is going to be a great celebration. Everybody, obviously, is going to enjoy it. ”

- Rudy Giuliani

“ Irish Fest is known at home in Ireland as one of the biggest and most popular celebrations of Irish culture anywhere in the world. ”

- Mary McAleese

“ We owe it to our husband or wife, our fellow workers, our children, our friends, indeed to everyone who comes into our lives, to be as happy as we can be. This does not mean acting unreal, and it certainly does not mean refraining from honest and intimate expression of our feelings to those closest to us… ”

- Dennis Prager

“ European Catholics tend to be somewhat grim and dour and straightlaced. We shouldn't have been, but we are. We can learn from the Latinos that Catholicism is a religion of festivity and celebration. ”

- Andrew Greeley

“ There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world. ”

- Jean Baudrillard

“ Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive. ”

- Stephen Fry

“ Christmas is over and Business is Business. ”

- Franklin P. Adams

“ Life is a festival only to the wise. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Life is a festival only to the wise. ”

- Unknown

“ Never celebrate until you are really out of the woods. They might be behind the last tree. ”

- Unknown

“ Never celebrate until you are really out of the woods. They might be behind the last tree. ”

- Unknown

“ Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, ”

- Walt Whitman

“ The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy. ”

- Alistair Cooke

“ May love and light fill your home and heart at Hanukkah. ”

- Unknown

“ Mom always tells me to celebrate everyone's uniqueness. I like the way that sounds. ”

- Hilary Duff

“ A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus. ”

- Herbert Clark Hoover

“ Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference. ”

- Mort Sahl

“ Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store. ”

- Theodor Geisel

“ Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store. ”

- Dr. Seuss
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