Lewis Carroll Quotes

I suppose it's possible that the Sundance Kid didn't like to make much of his birthdays — they may have struck him as just another reminder that his draw was getting slower by the year—but what if he truly liked a major celebration? What if he looked forward every year to marking the day of his birth with what they used to call in the West 'a real wingding, with pink balloons and a few survivors'?

Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.

I'm not a big birthday guy; I never have been.

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.

My family always makes a huge deal out of Christmas.

Practical gifts are another great way to be thoughtful, and they work for anything from birthdays to dinner-party gifts.

Birthdays, for me, are not really important. It is just like any other day.

I never believed in birthday parties.

I was given a new coat as a high school graduation gift.

Let every birthday be a festival, a time when the gladness of the house finds expression in flowers, in gifts, in a little fête. Never should a birthday be passed over without note, or as if it were a common day, never should it cease to be a garlanded milestone in the road of life.

There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing.

Birthdays are just weird! I like to have something simple like a dinner with friends and family if possible.

I love birthdays, holidays, and anything that calls for a celebration.

I've never been one to celebrate anniversaries.

Everyone loves to feast their eyes on Times Square on New Year's Eve.

The question on my husband's birthday is always, What do you get for the man who has nothing?

Any time you're rewarded and can be a part of history, it's a special moment.

Every thing in life that's first should be a celebration or celebrated with a lot of oomph.

A lot of people like to say that they have trouble getting gifts. I have trouble giving them. It's not out of a lack of generosity, mind you. My fallback is to go big, no matter what the occasion.

The date will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more.

We ought to be opening a bottle of wine!

The word God has become empty of meaning through thousands of years of misuse... By misuse, I mean that people who have never glimpsed the realm of the sacred, the infinite vastness behind that word, use it with great conviction, as if they knew what they are talking about. Or they argue against it, as if they knew what it is they are denying. This misuse gives rise to absurd beliefs, assertions, and egoic delusions, such as "My or our God is the only true God, and your God is false," or Nietzsche's famous statmeent "God is dead.

I like to work on New Year's Eve. It has a nice spirit; a nice feel about it. If you are all about the 'year-end' thing at all, then laughing with fellow human beings is a great way to start the new year.

Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.

'What is celebration?' Rather than dancing, rather than laughing, rather than loving, rather than enjoying this silence, the mind asks: 'What is celebration?'