National Holidays Quotes
- If all our national holidays were observed on Wednesdays, we could wind up with nine-day weekends. — George Carlin
- Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- The peculiar dignity of men seen eating alone in restaurants on national holidays — Stanley Elkin
- [...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories… — Aldous Huxley