(1268 quotes found)
“Some folks like to get awayTake a holiday from the neighborhoodHop a flight to Miami BeachOr to HollywoodBut I'm talking a GreyhoundOn the Hudson River LineI'm in a New York state of mind.”
Billy Joel
“Come, woo me, woo me; for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent”
William Shakespeare
“You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.”
Contributed by: Andy James
Erma Bombeck
“The holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; the secret anniversaries of the heart.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America? If he hadn't, somebody else would have and we'd still be here. Big deal.”
John Waters
“If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.”
“Time for work - yet take Much holiday for art's and friendship's sake”
George de Wilde
“Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools”
Lord Chesterfield
“April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.”
E. Y. Harburg
“I once wanted to become an atheist but I gave up . . . they have no holidays.”
Henny Youngman
