Quotes About Festivity

I love to make people have a good time and I love to make people party.

Australians know how to have a good time. We know how to party.

To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival.

Under the magic of the Dionysian, not only does the bond between man and man lock itself in place once more, but also nature itself, no matter how alienated, hostile, or subjugated, rejoices again in her festival of reconciliation with her prodigal son, man. The earth freely offers up her gifts, and the beasts of prey from the rocks and the desert approach in peace. The wagon of Dionysus is covered with flowers and wreaths; under his yolk stride panthers and tigers.

It always depresses me when people moan about how commercial Christmas is. I love everything about it. The tradition of having this great big feast, slap bang in the middle of winter, is an essential thing to look forward to at the end of the year.

I extend my greetings and good wishes to all our citizens on the joyous occasion of Deepawali. The festival of lights, celebrated with gaiety and enthusiasm all over the country, signifies the victory of good over evil and is an appropriate occasion for us to resolve to follow the high ideals in life.

The window in which it's acceptable to listen to Ella Fitzgerald's 1960 record 'Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas' is short, so I keep it in heavy rotation throughout the festive season.

There is nothing I enjoy more than to see others enjoy themselves.

I remember my first Mardi Gras. It was in the year 2001. I decided earlier that day that I was going to go in drag. It was my third time in drag.

BOODLE'S ORANGE FOOL FOR FORTY FOLKS Pile four large sponge cakes into a great big punch bowl. Saturate them with the juice of sixteen oranges and eight lemons.

And everybody knows a party means food!" Liberty yelled, causing a passing woman in a velvet dress to drop her fan to the ground.

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Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.

Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour.

I'm from Canada, so Thanksgiving to me is just Thursday with more food. And I'm thankful for that.

Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.

Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.

When there are dogs and music, people have a good time.

Christmas makes me happy no matter what time of year it comes around.

I have always thought of Christmas time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.

She's the original good time who was had by all.

I just want everybody to have a good time, because I'm goin' out to have a good time. I'm going to go have some fun.

Isn't it a lovely ball?" She looked around at the sea of lace and tulle and silk, the blaze of lights, the laughter and the music and the sway and swirl of movement. "I wish everyone could be as happy as I am.

It was from Dionysus, the wine god, that the theater came.