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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The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.

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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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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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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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Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut.

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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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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Real Quotes , Holiday 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

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

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

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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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In the house of God there is never ending festival; the angel choir makes eternal holiday; the presence of God's face gives joy that never fails.

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Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent.

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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 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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Tags : Aidan Turner Quotes , Holiday Quotes , People Quotes

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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Gas tax holiday is a classic Washington gimmick.

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