Quotes About Celebration

Come, landlord, fill a flowing bowl, until it does run over; To-night we all will merry be, to-morrow we'll get sober.

Life's a waste of time, time's a waste of life — so let's all get wasted and have the time of our life.

Muse, bid the morne awake; Sad winter now declines: Each bird doth choose a mate, This day's Saint Valentines...

Old Custom says, that rhyming words Must form the Valentine; Yet jingling verse but ill accords With sentiments like mine...

You know, America celebrating for Washington — a man who was so truthful — seems kinder sacrilegious. A lot of lying Americans get together and celebrate. Americans celebrating a truthful man's birthday always reminds me of a snake charmer celebrating St. Patrick's Day.

Every day is Earth Day.

Remember back when we used to eat cake after someone blew all over it? Man, were we wild!

Yiipppeeee! It's a new day! A special day. It's today!

Don't ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is the special occasion.

A designated driver helps you party another day.

If we dance amongst the rooftops, is it not that much further to jig into the starshine?

Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses...

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.

Age is not how old you are, but how many years of fun you've had.

The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.

The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.

Why waste your time and energy looking for the negative, finding it, and then bringing other people down by talking about it all the time? Doesn't it make a lot more sense to look for the good, find the good, and then celebrate it with others?

I'm not sad at all about turning 40.

New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.

If I could see the abolition of slavery... I would sing my nunc dimittis with joy.

What we need is evangelicals and Catholics who discern the primary demand of our time: a celebration of our heavenly participation in the eternal Word of God. Only a heavenly minded Christian faith will do us any earthly good.

The revelers in the State House, however, had no intention of retiring for the night. Instead they emptied into the streets and massed outside the telegraph office, shouting "New York 50,000 majority for Lincoln—whoop, whoop hurrah!" The entire city "went off like one immense cannon report, with shouting from houses, shouting from stores, shouting from house tops, and shouting everywhere.

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

The official dedication of the Bath Consolidated School building, attended by about 250 people, took place on Tuesday, November 14. Speeches were made, commemorative poems written specially for the occasion were recited. Following the program, guests "were invited to light refreshments served in the Home Economics room" and given a tour of the building by members of the high school junior class.14