Quotes of Holiday - somelinesforyou

“ If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work. ”

- William Shakespeare

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

- Henny Youngman

“ I love Christmas, not just because of the presents but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season. ”

- Ashley Tisdale

“ I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home. ”

- W. J. Ronald Tucker

“ This is Christmas: not the tinsel, not the giving and receiving, not even the carols, but the humble heart that receives anew the wondrous gift, the Christ. ”

- Frank McKibben

“ The worst gift that I ever gave a girl was a suitcase for Christmas. As in, 'I can't think of anything to give you, but here's a new suitcase.' Afterward, I was like, 'What were you thinking, idiot? ”

- Jensen Ackles

“ Every summer, my grandparents would rent a house on Balboa Island. They had the house next to Bob Hope's. I've been going down there all my life, to that whole area. ”

- Mike Love

“ A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ 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

“ To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance. ”

- Philip Andrew Adams

“ 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

“ My feelings are those of a schoolboy getting in sight of the holidays. Or more seriously, my feelings are perhaps those of a matador who has decided not to enter the bull ring. ”

- Geoffrey Fisher

“ No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking. ”

- Earl Wilson

“ The best thing about a vacation is planning it. ”

- Andrew A. Rooney

“ The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting. ”

- Gertrude Stein

“ What shall you do all your vacation?" asked Amy. "I shall lie abed and do nothing," replied Meg. ”

- Louisa May Alcott

“ But if it would have been a vacation, we wouldn't have made it. ”

- Robin McKinley

“ So,... what do you want for Christmas? ”

- John Daly

“ Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ We have a little bit of everything. We have entertainment in the bar, a pool room and kids menus, we have a comedy club that has been going on for years and we always do something special with that on New Year's Eve ”

- Benny Hill

“ Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday…The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production. ”

- Ayn Rand

“ Holidays are an expensive trial of strength. The only satisfaction comes from survival. ”

- Jonathan Miller

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

- Jimmy Cannon

“ The world is not a playground; it's a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. And the one eternal question for us all is how better we can love. ”

- Henry Drummond

“ Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm. ”

- Pamela Ribon

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

- Bertrand Russell

“ There is no more useless holiday that Groundhog Day. However, if I were to get the day off paid like Christmas, I would sing the praises of Groundhog Day! ”

- Michael Lorenzen

“ Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often. ”

- Johnny Carson
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