Quotes About Celebration

The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

There has been only one Christmas - the rest are anniversaries.

Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year - and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority.

For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.

It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.

For the good are always the merry, Save by an evil chance, And the merry love the fiddle, And the merry love to dance.

Be secret and exult Because of all things known That is most difficult

On Midsummer Eve, when the bonfires are lighted on every hill in honour of St. John, the fairies are at their gayest, and sometime steal away beautiful mortals to be their brides.

IMITATED FROM THE JAPANESE A MOST astonishing thing — Seventy years have I lived; (Hurrah for the flowers of Spring, For Spring is here again.) Seventy years have I lived No ragged beggar-man, Seventy years have I lived, Seventy years man and boy, And never have I danced for joy.

An old man plays the bagpipes In a gold and silver wood; Queens, their eyes blue like the ice, Are dancing in a crowd.

In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise

The Yankees lose so seldom, you have to celebrate every single time.

Baseball is a ceremony, a ritual, as surely as sacrificing a goat beneath a full moon is a ritual.

The awards season gives a chance for independent films to have a bit of longevity in the press and the media.

The Round-Up is a wonderful community celebration, and I greatly enjoy the chance to visit with residents and see so many families enjoying the festivities offered throughout the week.

A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

This leg will be known as Christmas, and this leg will be known as New Year's Eve! Ladies...why don't you all come visit the Big Valbowski between the holidays.

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know.

The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, The holly branch shone on the old oak wall.

Be careful with drinking this Christmas. I got so drunk last night I found myself dancing in a cheesy bar... Or, as you like to call it, delicatessen.