Quotes about Festivity
New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.
— Mark Twain
An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.
— Mark Twain
So Laban invited all the men of that place and prepared a feast.
— Genesis 29:22
So the next day they arose, offered burnt offerings, and presented peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to indulge in revelry.
— Exodus 32:6
All the people followed him, playing flutes and rejoicing with such a great joy that the earth was split by the sound.
— 1 Kings 1:40
David and all the Israelites were celebrating before God with all their might, with songs and on harps and lyres, with tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.
— 1 Chronicles 13:8
So all the men of Israel came together to the king at the feast in the seventh month.
— 2 Chronicles 5:3
For the Jews it was a time of light and gladness, of joy and honor.
— Esther 8:16
Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,
— Esther 9:8
to establish among them an annual celebration on the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar
— Esther 9:21
Therefore these days are called Purim, from the word Pur. Because of all the instructions in this letter, and because of all they had seen and experienced,
— Esther 9:26
singing to the tambourine and lyre and making merry at the sound of the flute.
— Job 21:12