Quotes about holidays
75 quotes from 48 people
Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble.
If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work
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.He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
Listen to them — the children of the night. What music they make.
Hunter S. Thompson1937–2005“Fear and Loathing in Elko” Rolling Stone (23 January 1992)The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.
Mark Twain1835–1910As quoted in Quick and Fun Activities for Every Day of the Year (2001) by Tim Tuck and Karen Froloff, p. 1.No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night.
Elie Wiesel1928–2016Nobel acceptance speech (1986)I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up—they have no holidays.
