Who first invented work, and bound the free and holiday-rejoicing spirit down?
Holidays Quotes
Every day cannot be a feast of lanterns.
Holidays are often over overrated disturbances of routine, costly and uncomfortable, and they usually need another holiday to correct their ravages.
All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast.
The young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday.
Holidays – Have no pity.
A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.
I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: “The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that’s fair.” In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.
All history until the eighteenth century is full of prodigies and wonders which modern historians ignore, not because they are less well attested than facts which the historians accept, but because modern taste among the learned prefers what science regards as probable. Shakespeare relates how on the night before Caesar was killed A common slave […]
If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work. (Henry IV)
