Abraham Polonsky Quotes, Holiday Quotes, Long 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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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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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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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , New Year Quotes , Holiday Quotes

I like working, I'm not into relaxing. Work motivates me, and even when I do take a holiday, I meet friends, talk about projects and set up meetings, set meetings between other people, or get involved.

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The xmas holidays have this high value: that they remind Forgetters of the Forgotten, & repair damaged relationships.

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You can leave a kid alone and it will learn to fend for itself, how to work the remote, a tin opener, and the microwave. I see the holidays as a chance for kids to learn self-sufficiency.

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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

So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.

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A holiday in a new dresscan earth offer anything more enchanting?

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My wife and I always have a winter holiday that I call the "fly and flop". In January and February, you don't want culture, you just want to get your bones warm and eat, drink, sleep. We usually go to the Caribbean.

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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

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

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

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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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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

Actually, when you're doing something you love, even when you're busy and it's hectic you don't feel the need to relax. I never used to take holidays and it would upset ex-wives and girlfriends, but working has me in a better mood than doing nothing.

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Many people celebrate Christmas as a secular holiday for the most part than a Christian holiday. Obviously, many, many people celebrate it as a Christian holiday. But then there's even more people or there's additional people who celebrate it as a secular holiday as well.

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

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