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
If you can't make it to New Orleans for Mardi Gras, please feel free to reveal your breasts right here — Mardi Gras Copy Share Image
The first Mardi Gras I went to, I stayed at the Tulane AE Pi house on Broadway. Slept on a pool table… — Adam Richman Copy Share Image
Normally, Mardi Gras is when we make all our money to pay our taxes and back bills. — Earl Bernhardt Copy Share Image
What goes better with Fat Tuesday than marijuana? Nothing! Get the munchies and smash. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Wonder if good ole NOLA knows its precious Mardi Gras puked all over the Vegas Strip.” — Gina L. Maxwell 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
“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
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
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
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
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
In the dining room, next to my collection of colorful papier-mache Mardi Gras float art, hang draperies made of the New Orleans… — Bryan Batt Copy Share Image
There's a thing I've dreamed of all my life, and I'll be damned if it don't look like it's about to come… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
We've never done a coordinated music effort. Everything else we've done has been around a holiday - Halloween, Mardi Gras, half way… — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
“New Orleans, said he usually dresses in costume for the Mardi Gras holiday, but the weather deterred him this year. Baker said… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Those who have not lived in New Orleans have missed an incredible, glorious, vital city--a place with an energy unlike anywhere else… — Jordan Flaherty Copy Share Image
How was I to know your pet was a god-killer? What kind of idiot ties herself down to one of his kind?… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
History of America, Part I (1776-1966): Declaration of Independence, Constitutional Convention, Louisiana Purchase, Civil War, Reconstruction, World War I, Great Depression, New… — Norman Chad 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
People say Fat Tuesday is like Christmas for alcoholics. That's ridiculous, everybody knows Christmas is Christmas for alcoholics. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tuesday, I don't hate you cause you're fat. You're fat cause I hate you. But yeah I actually do hate you cause… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This Mardi Gras is about more than greed. It's a shout-out to everybody, and we're coming back strong. — Julio Cesar Copy Share Image
Be sure to enjoy the trademark beverage of New Orleans named for the deadly storm surges that frequently decimate the city. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I saw Mardi Gras in New Orleans. So to me Party Rock was always wear your animal… — Redfoo 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
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 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
“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
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 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
“But the reasons against going to New Orleans--that spicy southern city known for jazz and Mardi Gras and hospitality--were the very reasons… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
I like visiting peoples homes on Saint Josephs Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint,… — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
“She was evil. Couldn't he, who killed demons with his own hands, realize that? And now I had to run for Mardi… — Jenna-Lynne Duncan Copy Share Image
Mardi Gras is the love of life. It is the harmonic convergence of our food, our music, our creativity, our eccentricity, our… — Chris Rose Copy Share Image
