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An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
Irv Kupcinet1912–2003
- Thanksgiving
He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
RSRoy L. Smith1887–1963
- Christmas
Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.
KGKonrad von Gesner1516–1565
- Thanksgiving
Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.
?Unattributed
- Thanksgiving
Christmas is a time when you get homesick, even when you’re home.
CNCarol Nelson
- Christmas
There has been only one Christmas⁠—the rest are anniversaries.
WCW.J. Cameron
- Christmas
Next to a circus there ain’t nothing that packs up and tears out any quicker than the Christmas spirit.
Kin Hubbard1868–1930In: The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes, Constable & Robinson, 1 March 2012, p. 145
- Christmas
Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting, Lizard’s leg, and owlet’s wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (1623), In: Medical Arena, Volumes 7-8, 1898, p. 122In context
- Halloween
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
Jean Baudrillard1929–2007“Astral America” (p. 48)
- Halloween
A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
EBErma Bombeck1927–1996
- Halloween
Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoken to.
Richard Harris Barham1788–1845
- Halloween
Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday… The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.
Ayn Rand1905–1982The Ayn Rand Letter (1971–1976)
- America
- Thanksgiving
Listen to them — the children of the night. What music they make.
Bram Stoker1847–1912Dracula (1897)In context
- Halloween
As we give thanks for the Earth, will we live in such a way that the Earth can be grateful for us?
Robin Wall Kimmererborn 1953from interviews and conversations (2015)
- Nature
- Thanksgiving
I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the City of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty guns and plenty of ammunition, also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.
William Tecumseh Sherman1820–1891Telegraph to Abraham Lincoln (December 1864), as quoted in Southern Storm: Sherman’s March to the Sea (2008), by Noah Andre Trudeau, New York: HarperCollins, p. 508.
- Christmas
- War & Peace