Winston Churchill Quotes, Holiday Quotes, Long 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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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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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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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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Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut.

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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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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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Gas tax holiday is a classic Washington gimmick.

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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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He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May.

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A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up.

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Evil knows no holiday.

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For it was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big Wheel of the year, a violent preamble to a prostrate Sabbath. Piled up passions were exploded on Saturday night, and the effect of a week's monotonous graft in the factory was swilled out of your system in a burst of goodwill. You followed the motto of 'be drunk and be happy,' kept your crafty arms around female waists, and felt the beer going beneficially down into the elastic capacity of your guts.

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

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

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They don't mind it: its a reg'lar holiday to them - all porter and skittles.

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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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