Discuss...: How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.” Benjamin Franklin “If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.” William Shakespeare “The holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; the secret anniversaries of the heart.” Longfellow “Marry an orphan: you'll never have to spend boring holidays with the in-laws (at most an occasional visit to the cemetery)” George Carlin “At this time of the year, with the holidays upon us, nothing says she cares about how I am, where I am and what I'm doing as much as the restraining order” Randy Saint “A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell. G B Shaw “I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.” Henry Youngman “Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.” Winston Churchill “The living are just the dead on holiday.” “Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born /a hundred million years /and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes.” Mark Twain There is no one who became rich because he broke a holiday, no one became fat because he broke a fast. Ethiopia” African Proverb “I personally gave up the Absolute . . . I fully believe in taking moral holidays.” William James To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance. Philip Andrew Adams No self-respect

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