Holidays – Have no pity.
Holidays Quotes
A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.
I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: “The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that’s fair.” In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.
All history until the eighteenth century is full of prodigies and wonders which modern historians ignore, not because they are less well attested than facts which the historians accept, but because modern taste among the learned prefers what science regards as probable. Shakespeare relates how on the night before Caesar was killed A common slave […]
If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work. (Henry IV)
Come, woo me, woo me; for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent. (As You Like It)
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
Time for work – yet take Much holiday for art’s and friendship’s sake.
I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.
In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it “Christmas” and went to church; the Jews called it “Hanukkah” and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say “Merry Christmas!” or “Happy Hanukkah!” or (to the atheists) “Look […]
