holiday quotes

His first holiday.

-Lardner Bursiquot
His own suggested epitaph.  Attributed.

There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian motherhe, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday.

-Rochdale
^18  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 4, stanza141.

It's a regular holiday to themall porter and skittles.

- CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
^7  Pickwick Papers, ch.41.

I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.

-Walter F(rederick) Mondale
  On withdrawing from the presidential campaign.

Thislittlesteamer, likeall herbraveand battered sisters,is immortal. She'll go sailing proudly down the years in the epic of Dunkirk. And our great-great-grand-children, when they learn how we began this war by snatching glory out of defeat, and then swept on to victory, may also learn how the little holiday steamers made an excursion to hell and came back glorious.

-J(ohn) B(oynton) Priestley
  Radio broadcast, 5 Jun, quoted in The Listener,13 Jun.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

- George Bernard Shaw
  Parents and Children.