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Quotes About Festivity

Daisy loved all parades, especially this one, whose crush of observers, prone to impulsive kisses, made it one more piece of the mistletoe under which she lived her life
~ Thomas Mallon
At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.
~ Thomas Tusser
Christmas in the Ramsay house is always a noisy chaotic time, but I love it!
~ Tana Ramsay
I'm not the number-one fan of the heavy holiday meal. And also, I didn't grow up eating them, the traditional Western holiday meals, so it's just not something I have a nostalgic relationship to.
~ Samin Nosrat
Birthdays are meant for special occasions.
~ Anupam Kher
Why not take a few pounds of 'happys'?" advised the salesman. "They're much more practical—and very useful for Happy Birthday, Happy New Year, happy days, and happy-go-lucky.
~ Norton Juster
banging saucepans to ring in the new year?
~ Colum McCann
I guess this means that our conflict is finally over. Perhaps we should celebrate. – Saint Dane Perhaps you should bite me. Bobby
~ D.J. MacHale
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.
~ Walter Scott
26 January is a happy day for all Indians. Whether or not you feel patriotic, it is a guaranteed holiday in the first month of the year.
~ Chetan Bhagat
The score belongs on the society pages. To preserve the spirit of the occasion, the teams should have played in tuxes or swallowtail coats and corsages. It's not an athletic event anymore, it's a carnival. Mardi Gras with first downs.
~ Jim Murray, 1980, unverified
Taco Tuesday is followed by Whiskey Wednesday and Thirsty Thursday.
~ Internet meme
Thursday is Friday Eve!
~ Internet meme
Tick tock— It's wine o'clock!
~ Internet meme
Good wine makes men's hearts rejoice.
~ Roman Proverb
...one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.
~ Erasmus
One cannot have too large a party.
~ Jane Austen, Emma, 1815
A party without cake is just a meeting.
~ Julia Child, unverified
Come, landlord, fill a flowing bowl, until it does run over; To-night we all will merry be, to-morrow we'll get sober.
~ Popular song, c.1700s
TURKEY, n. A large bird whose flesh when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude. Incidentally, it is pretty good eating.
~ Ambrose Bierce
I grew up in a very celebratory town. We celebrate everything, from life to death and everything in between. So a lot of dramatics come into my aesthetic. And I'm an actor, so that adds more to the dramatic – I don't mean over-the-top. The main thing is never to be boring.
~ Bryan Batt
even the knives and forks had a social clatter as they went on to the table; and the chicken and ham had a cheerful and joyous fizzle in the pan, as if they rather enjoyed being cooked than otherwise
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Like a kettle boiling over, the room foamed with laughter.
~ Heather Vogel Frederick
One can never have too large a party.
~ Jane Austen