Mark Twain Quotes, New Year Quotes, Holiday Quotes

A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.

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In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Holiday Quotes , Men Quotes

And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the checkered shade. And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Holiday Quotes , Sunshine Quotes

Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry in all kinds,--epic, tragedy, lyric. If we can touch the imagination, we serve them; they will never forget it.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Holiday Quotes , Epic Quotes

Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed – because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of the canonized ethic and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden-sword pageants, and its fishing holidays.

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I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.

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The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart, When the full river of feeling overflows;- The happy days unclouded to their close; The sudden joys that our of darkness start As flames from ashes; swift desires that dart Like swallows singing down each wind that blows!

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Heart Quotes , Holiday Quotes

I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.

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Tags : Al Sharpton Quotes , Holiday Quotes , Black Quotes

Come let us mock at the good That fancied goodness might be gay, And sick of solitude Might proclaim a holiday: Wind shrieked and where are they?

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Holiday Quotes , Gay Quotes

If you have a work instead of a job, every day is holiday

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Jobs Quotes , Holiday Quotes

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

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Holiday Quotes , Long Quotes

You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it may be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday, except as it celebrates real and not pretended joys.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Real Quotes , Holiday Quotes

I love to cook a meal for the so-called holidays. You always need the turkey. I like making a good BBQ brisket as well.

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Tags : Action Bronson Quotes , Holiday Quotes , Turkeys Quotes

One of the best parts of the holiday season is spending time with the special people in your life.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Holiday Quotes , Special People Quotes

The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn't just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I'm mad as a hatter. When I tell you a cat must have three different names.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Holiday Quotes , Cat Quotes

Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.

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Tags : Alan Bradley Quotes , Christmas Quotes , Holiday Quotes

A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.

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Tags : Abraham Polonsky Quotes , Holiday Quotes , Long Quotes

The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn't just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I'm mad as a hatter. When I tell you a cat must have three different names.

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It's even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday.

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Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Nature Quotes , Holiday Quotes