(1253 quotes found)
“How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.”
Benjamin Franklin
“I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.”
Henry Youngman
“No self-respecting mother would run out of intimidations on the eve of a major holiday.”
Erma Bombeck
“Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected”
Jimmy Cannon
“Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!”
Amanda Bradley
“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
“The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.”
P. J. O'Rourke
“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
“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
“A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.”
George Bernard Shaw