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Letter "H" » holiday
«I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.»
«The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Behavior,
Drinking,
New Year
| Keywords:
culminate, culminated, culminates, culminating, drunkenness, Eve, holiday, holiday season
«Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
| About:
Retirement
| Keywords:
heap, holiday, prolonged, rejection, retirement, scrap, scraps
«There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of former times. They recall the pictures my fancy used to draw in the May morning of life, when as yet I only knew the world through books, and believed it to be all that poets had painted it; and they bring with them the flavour of those honest days of yore, in which, perhaps with equal fallacy, I am apt to think the world was more home-bred, social, and joyous than at present.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| About:
Books,
Christmas,
Literature
| Keywords:
as yet, at present, bred, customs, delightful, draw in, exercises, fallacies, fallacy, flavour, holiday, joyous, painted, picture book, recall, rural, yore
«There is no one who became rich because he broke a holiday, no one became fat because he broke a fast. Ethiopia»
«Some folks like to get awayTake a holiday from the neighborhoodHop a flight to Miami BeachOr to HollywoodBut I'm talking a GreyhoundOn the Hudson River LineI'm in a New York state of mind.»
Author: Billy Joel
(Pianist, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
beach, flight, get away, greyhound, greyhounds, holiday, hop, hopped, hopping, hops, hop up, Hudson, Hudson River, Miami, Miami Beach, neighborhood, neighborhoods, new line, New York State, state of mind
«I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday - the longer, the better - from the great boarding school where we are forever working at our arithmetical slates, to take, and giv»
Author: Charles Dickens
| About:
Christmas
| Keywords:
arithmetical, boarding, boarding school, come home, holiday, school board, slate, slates
«Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Holidays
| Keywords:
holiday, holiday season, mall, malls, observes, once again, The Mall
«No self-respecting mother would run out of intimidations on the eve of a major holiday.»
«Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools»
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