Quotes about Celebration
In Shakespeare's plays, the mourner hastening to bury his friend is all the time colliding with the reveller hastening to his wine.
— Samuel Johnson
People sold everything - their cars, their land for miles, to come in and see me beat. I went to the bank laughing every time.
— Muhammad Ali
I'm so happy I could scalp somebody. (Said after he got married)
— Mark Twain
Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
the same disposition that impelled the Greeks and Romans to embellish their precious sarcophagi precisely as we still see them, with festivals, dancing, weddings,4 hunts, animal combat, bacchanals, thus with depictions of the most powerful press of life,i which they bring before us not only in such entertainments, but in group debauchery extending even to the point of copulation between satyrs and goats.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
I forgot what we were celebrating. Because we were always celebrating something, a new job, a new poem, a new love, a new dream.
— Audre Lorde
The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says: "Merry Christmas"—not "Weep and Repent." And the good will is expressed in a material, earthly form—by giving presents to one's friends, or by sending them cards in token of remembrance.
— Ayn Rand
Rejoice and love yourself today 'Cause baby, you were born this way.
— Lady Gaga
The soul of one who serves God always swims in joy, always keeps holiday, is always in her palace of jubilation, ever singing with fresh ardor and fresh pleasure a new song of joy and love.
— John of the Cross
Where there is no wine there is no love.
— Euripides
As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there's always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
Glory, glory, said the Bee, Hallelujah, said the Flea. Praise the Lord, remarked the Wren. At springtime all is born-again.
— Eric Metaxas