People say Fat Tuesday is like Christmas for alcoholics. That's ridiculous, everybody knows Christmas is Christmas for alcoholics. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm supporting the New Orleans economy by maxing out my credit cards in a prolonged blackout. — Mardi Gras Copy Share Image
Turns out the rules of Fat Tuesday dont require women to expose their breasts if you pelt them with beads. Most awkward… — Philip DeFranco Copy Share Image
“The safest day at the Melody is St. Paddy's," adds another Mardi Gras girl. "All the cops are out vomiting at the… — Josh Alan Friedman Copy Share Image
Happy Fat Tuesday everyone! Indulge while you can, for we start fasting in the next few weeks to come. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's a great party, and anyone who doesn't enjoy Mardi Gras is not of this world. — Franklin Alvarado Copy Share Image
Fat Tuesday? I feel fat every day of the week...Today is nothing special. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm having my own Mardi Gras celebration without the parades, beads, costumes, or people. — Mardi Gras Copy Share Image
This wasn't strong-willed, fly-by-the-seat-of-her-miniskirt Kate that I'd befriended last year. You think you know a girl- and then she goes and loses… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
It's not a giant thing, like graduation, Mardi Gras, Halloween or New Year's. We do get business from it. That's why we… — Suzanne Smith Copy Share Image
“This night felt like a last hurrah, like we could blaze our brightest, at the apex of our insane adolescence. This was… — Heather Demetrios Copy Share Image
I remember my first Mardi Gras. It was in the year 2001. I decided earlier that day that I was going to… — Courtney Act Copy Share Image
In some countries Women's Day is a national holiday and men give women flowers. In America Women's Day falls on another holiday,… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
I like visiting people's homes on Saint Joseph's Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint,… — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
I remember turning onto the street. I saw barricades and police officers and, just, people everywhere. When I saw all of that,… — Ruby Bridges Copy Share Image
I live in New Orleans part of the year, and it's a really fun eating town. I bought two homes there, one… — Jennifer Coolidge Copy Share Image
“So,” I demanded, trying to sound confident, “where can we find this trod to New Orleans?” “The frost giant ruins,” Ash replied,… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
Don't stop. Keep right on going. Hitch up your trailer and go to Canada or down to Old Mexico. Head for Europe… — Wally Byam Copy Share Image
“That was the point of Mardi Gras, was it not? To serve and honor all the people, to bring into hard lives… — Dan Baum Copy Share Image
It's always on everyone's list, like, 'What's New Orleans like?' I think people have a pre-conceived idea, like it's just Mardi Gras… — Sung Kang Copy Share Image
Fat Tuesday? You guys are such jerks. Tuesday just has a thyroid problem. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If Mardi Gras were not to happen, we would struggle to pay our police, fire (and ambulance) services for months to come. — Kim Priez Copy Share Image
“Mardi Gras, baby. Mardi Gras. Time when all manner of weird shit cuts loose and parties down.” — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
You must be excited for the one day of the year when your behavior makes sense. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My uncle is in the hall of fame for creating by hand some of the most intricate Indian Mardi Gras garb. — Dawn Richard Copy Share Image
Do what you do. This Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year's Eve, Twelfth Night, Valentine's Day, Mardi Gras, St. Paddy's Day, and every… — Chris Rose Copy Share Image
My family's business was actually an amusement park in New Orleans. My grandfather had started that, and my grandmother was a dance… — Bryan Batt Copy Share Image
I've heard some people say we can't do it. But it's a very significant anniversary and I can't imagine it going unmarked… — Arthur Hardy Copy Share Image
On Mardi Gras, she got his soul back and freed him. (Wulf) Oh man, that sucks. Now he’s going to have to… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
From the food to the Mardi Gras Indians to the brass bands and the second liners parading through the street, Jazz Fest… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
Normally when you go to a queer space the people often look like you, they are the same age as you and… — Courtney Act Copy Share Image
This is a city that has gone through cataclysm, and its citizens are desperately ready to let off some steam. This is… — Mary Herczog Copy Share Image
May this be the year we stop seeing New Orleans as a mismanaged natural disaster and return to identifying it with half-naked,… — Mardi Gras Copy Share Image
“In New Orleans I have noticed that people are happiest when they are going to funerals, making money, taking care of the… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Yeah, I know, but word came from Artemis herself that she wanted him here. Looks like we’re having a psycho reunion this… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
It has been said that a Scotchman has not seen the world until he has seen Edinburgh; and I think that I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
At Mardi Gras, the different tribes will basically play war games, and so my brother is what you call a Flag Boy,… — Christian Scott Copy Share Image
