Quotes about Festivity

A holiday would be a poor thing indeed without a great deal of game playing!

You get three Venezuelans together and one will play the drums or the guitar and the other two will dance; there is no ill that can resist that treatment. Our parties, in contrast, seem like funerals: the men gather in a corner to talk business and the women die of boredom. Only the young dance, seduced by North American music, but as soon as they marry they turn solemn like their parents.

New Year's a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.

Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping.

Tis July's immortal Fourth; all fountains must run wine today!

I absolutely love everything about Christmas music.

I think Christmas is about celebration and come on, on the inside everyone wants to dance.

I have always thought of Christmas time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.

Every December, I host a tree-trimming party. I serve chili with cornbread and lots of good wine. It's a wonderful party, and it shows how much adults like to play.

that every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a marvelous discovery

meanwhile we'll drink your health - queen Alice's health!' she screamed at the top of her voice, and all the guests began drinking it directly...

And numerous indeed are the hearts to which Christmas brings a brief season of happiness and enjoyment.