100+ Inspirational Holiday Quotes to Brighten Your Season

"Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"The joy of brightening other lives becomes for us the magic of the holidays."

- W. C. Jones

"May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility."

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"The best way to spread holiday cheer is singing loud for all to hear."

- Buddy the Elf

"When we remember a special Christmas, it is not the presents that made it special, but the laughter, the feeling of love, and the togetherness of friends and family that made that Christmas special."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"A holiday is an opportunity to journey within."

- Prabhas

"What is Christmas? It is the tenderness of the past, courage for the present, and hope for the future."

- Agnes M. Pahro

"The Joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others’ burdens, easing each other’s loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of the holidays."

- W. C. Jones

"I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending."

- Fred Rogers

"And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each New Year find you a better man."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings."

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking."

- Earl Wilson

"Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation."

- Leo Tolstoy

"No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Once a year, go somewhere you’ve never been before."

- The Dalai Lama

"The secret of success is making your vacation your vacation."

- Mark Twain

"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page."

- St. Augustine

"The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it."

- Sydney J. Harris

"To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal."

- Paulo Coelho

"Don’t wait for a vacation to enjoy life. Start to enjoy it now, today, wherever you are."

- Debasish Mridha

"It’s better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times."

- Asian Proverb

"I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you’ve allotted for vacation."

- John Battelle

"Kwanzaa is a special time to remember the ancestors, the bridge builders, and the leaders."

- Dorothy Winbush Riley

"The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear."

- Buddy the Elf

"A good conscience is a continual Christmas."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Winter, a lingering season, is a time to gather golden moments, embark upon a sentimental journey, and enjoy every idle hour."

- John Boswell

"So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole Earth."

- Bahá’u’lláh

"Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling."

- Edna Ferber

"We have religious holidays and we have secular holidays. I see Kwanzaa as an opportunity for African Americans to reaffirm ourselves if we choose to, a chance to rebuild and renew our focus. I see Kwanzaa as a holiday of the spirit."

- Jessica Harris

"Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing, but of reflection."

- Winston Churchill

"If you haven’t got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble."

- Bob Hope

"Kindness is like snow. It beautifies everything it covers."

- Kahlil Gibran

"The holiday reflects the best of African thought and practice in its reaffirmation of the dignity of the human person in community and culture, the well-being of family and community, the integrity of the environment and our kinship with it, and the rich resource and meaning of a people’s culture."

- Dr. Maulana Karenga

"At Christmas, all roads lead home."

- Marjorie Holmes

"The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood."

- Richard Paul Evans

"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth."

- Mohammed Ali

"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."

- Charles Dickens

"Christmas can’t be bought from a store. Maybe Christmas means a little bit more."

- Dr. Seuss

"Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough."

- Oprah Winfrey

"For families across the country, today marks the beginning of a joyous time to reflect on the rich African-American culture and to remember the principles of unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity, and faith—principles that reflect our most cherished values as Americans."

- Barack Obama

"Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart."

- Washington Irving

"Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone."

- Charles M. Schulz

"Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home."

- Edith Sitwell

"Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day."

- Helen Steiner Rice

"Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most."

- Ruth Carter Stapleton

"Be present in all things and thankful for all things."

- Maya Angelou

"Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall."

- Larry Wilde

"You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Holidays–any holiday–are such a great opportunity to focus on bringing the family together."

- Lidia Bastianich

"For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home."

- William Jewett Tucker

"For it is in giving that we receive."

- Francis of Assisi

"I find that it’s the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays."

- Amy Adams

"We should try to hold on to the Christmas spirit, not just one day a year, but all 365."

- Mary Martin

"Santa Claus is anyone who loves another and seeks to make them happy; who gives himself by thought or word or deed in every gift that he bestows."

- Edwin Osgood Grover

"We need about seven days to figure out who we are and where we’re at and love each other. It’s a time for reflection to help us try to figure out how we’re gonna enjoy the next year."

- Chuck D.

"Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can’t see."

- Chris Van Allsburg

"Remember this December, that love weighs more than gold."

- Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

"The best way to celebrate the holidays is with some delicious food."

- Rachel Hollis

"The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale."

- Vera Nazarian

"Christmas is not a story of hope. It is hope."

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

"I love holidays. It’s such a wonderful time for the whole family to be together and not have to worry about schedules and that kind of thing."

- Toni Collette

"Last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice."

- T.S. Eliot

"Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today’s Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday."

- Gladys Taber

"Christmas is a together-y sort of holiday."

- Winnie the Pooh

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."

- Helen Keller

"A joy that is shared is a joy made double."

- John Roy

"As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December’s bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same."

- Donald E. Westlake

"Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness."

- Mo Rocca

"It’s Christmas Eve. It’s the one night of the year when we all act a little nicer, we smile a little easier, we cheer a little more. For a couple of hours out of the whole year, we are the people that we always hoped we would be."

- Frank Cross

"Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast."

- William Shakespeare

"Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you’re giving of yourself, gets you past all the commercialism."

- Caroline Kennedy

"The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are."

- Marianne Williamson

"For me, I think everybody with half a heart tries to do their best to do their part of good during the holiday season."

- Darren Criss

"The holiday season is a time for storytelling, and whether you are hearing the story of a candelabra staying lit for more than a week, or a baby born in a barn without proper medical supervision, these stories often feature miracles."

- Lemony Snicket

"Chill December brings the sleet, Blazing fire, and Christmas treat."

- Sara Coleridge

"This is my wish for you: peace of mind, prosperity through the year, happiness that multiplies, health for you and yours, fun around every corner, energy to chase your dreams, joy to fill your holidays!"

- D.M. Dellinger

"I love the fact that everybody slightly changes during the holidays. Most people are a little bit brighter and have a little bit more cheer around this time and are a little bit more giving, so I love that."

- Jordin Sparks

"A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward, to reset oneself by an inner compass."

- May Sarton

"New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday."

- Charles Lamb

"A holiday isn’t a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun."

- Louisa May Alcott

"The true Christmas spirit is putting others’ happiness before our own, and finding you’ve never known such happiness."

- Toni Sorenson

"In the midst of the shopping and the wrapping and the arranging of presents under your tree this Christmas, may you not forget the gifts you cannot yet hold in your hands."

- T.D. Jakes

"Later in the winter I’d tire of the snow, but Christmas snow was different."

- Marie Landry

"Christmas is more than just December 25th. It’s a season of happiness, love, and anticipation… if you haven’t started celebrating yet, you’re LATE!"

- Olivia Danchik

"If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important."

- Bertrand Russell

"At Christmas, a man is at his finest towards the finish of the year; He is almost what he should be when the Christmas season’s here; Then he’s thinking more of others than he’s thought the months before, And the laughter of his children is a joy worth toiling for. He is less a selfish creature than at any other time; When the Christmas spirit rules him he comes close to the sublime."

- Edgar Guest

"I don’t need a holiday or a feast to feel grateful for my children, the sun, the moon, the roof over my head, music, and laughter, but I like to take this time to take the path of thanks less traveled."

- Paula Poundstone

"This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone."

- Taylor Caldwell

"I’m a minimalist. I don’t really need much to enjoy a good holiday – just my family and the bare essentials."

- Jean Reno

"One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth."

- Zooey Deschanel

"What I like about Christmas is that you can make people forget the past with the present."

- Don Marquis

"This time of year means being kind to everyone we meet, to share a smile with strangers we may pass along the street."

- Betty Black

"A holiday is an opportunity to journey within. It is also a chance to chill, to relax. It is when I switch on my rest mode."

- Prabhas

"Find what brings you joy and go there."

- Jan Phillips

"Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul."

- Jamie Lyn Beatty

"Life’s short. Eat dessert first, work less, and vacation MORE!"

- Lea Mishell

"I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list."

- Susan Sontag

"You cannot discover new oceans unless you dare to lose sight of the shore."

- André Gide

"Vacations are necessities, not luxuries."

- Linda Bloom

"One-week vacations are too short to prevent burnout; by the time you relax enough not to think about the office, the week is almost up."

- Cecilia Mikalac

"After a while, just staying alive becomes a full-time job. No wonder we need a vacation."

- Michael Zadoorian

"On vacation, I totally unplug. I don’t bring a laptop with me."

- Will Wright

"When all else fails, take a vacation."

- Betty Williams

"If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet."

- Rachel Wolchin

"A wise man travels to discover himself."

- James Russell Lowell

"Neglecting vacation is neglecting success because every success needs accumulated positive energy!"

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

"Time well-spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation."

- Zig Ziglar

"The thing I love most about going on vacation is that I get to leave behind any kind of schedule. My entire life is scheduled from morning to night, and when I’m on vacation, there is no schedule."

- Kelly Clarkson

"I have never believed that vacations are luxuries. They are our necessities–just like shelter, clothes, and food. They make us feel like humans and not like animals that care only for survival."

- Alexander Babinets

"It isn’t how much time you spend somewhere that makes it memorable: it’s how you spend the time."

- David Brenner

"People don’t take trips; trips take people."

- John Steinbeck

"Every piece of the universe, even the tiniest little snow crystal, matters somehow. I have a place in the pattern, and so do you. Thinking of you this holiday season!"

- T.A. Barron

"Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts."

- J.L.W. Brooks

"I miss both of my parents terribly every day, but especially as we approach Thanksgiving. We always came together as a family for that holiday, playing capture the flag and touch football and laughing a lot."

- Mark Shriver

"I look forward to the holiday season every year."

- Cate Blanchett

"Two brothers and a sister, my niece, my nephew... we're a very small group. We're very close, very tight-knit. We spend every holiday weekend together."

- Cristela Alonzo

"Christmas comes during a season when the Earth is in its darkest time. It's a holiday for the family and for everyone."

- Melissa Etheridge

"I look my best when I'm totally free, on holiday, walking on the beach."

- Rosamund Pike

"Giving back to those in need is something that everyone on all sides of the political aisle can relate to, and it is beautiful to see people come together, especially during the holiday season."

- Ainsley Earhardt

"I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself."

- Ina Garten

"This is such a special summer holiday for me. I haven't known myself so relaxed in years."

- Kylie Minogue

"I always joke that my kids' favorite holiday is Father's Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It's my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad."

- Wayne Dyer

"I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual."

- Henry David Thoreau

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."

- John F. Kennedy

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life."

- Melody Beattie

"Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand."

- Dr. Seuss

"From home to home, and heart to heart, from one place to another. The warmth and joy of Christmas, brings us closer to each other."

- Emily Matthews

"Christmas is forever, not for just one day. For loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away."

- Norman Wesley Brooks

"Christmas is a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart."

- Freya Stark

"What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future."

- Agnes M. Pahro

"Love the giver more than the gift."

- Brigham Young

"Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one."

- Brad Paisley

"Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing."

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over."

- Guy Finley

"There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind."

- C.S. Lewis

"Not what we say about our blessing, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving."

- W.T. Purkiser

"The darkness of the whole world cannot swallow the glowing of a candle."

- Robert Atlinger

"There was nothing like a Saturday – unless it was the Saturday leading up to the last week of school and into summer vacation. That of course was all the Saturdays of your life rolled into one big shiny ball."

- Nora Roberts

"Chilling out on the bed in your hotel room watching television, while wearing your own pajamas, is sometimes the best part of a vacation."

- Laura Marano

"'Kris Kringle' is a holiday musical for a new generation - a gorgeous score paired with a heartwarming tale of family and forgiveness."

- Andrew Keenan-Bolger

"Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your mouth sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever."

- Richelle E. Goodrich

"April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees."

- E.Y. Harburg

"A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle."

- James Keller

"Last year, I came away from the vacation thoroughly bloated and ten pounds heavier, convinced I’d blocked an artery and possibly shortened my lifespan by a few months. But I was also deliriously content, which is surely what it’s all about."

- Cash Peters

"There’s something about a Christmas sweater that will always make me laugh."

- Kristen Wiig

"Vacation is that time when you wish you had something to do while doing nothing."

- Frank Tyger

"A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic."

- Max von Sydow

"Laughter is an instant vacation."

- Milton Berle

"My sister Naomi and I always wanted to go to Tahiti. We planned a fantastic holiday to visit several islands, but at the last moment, Naomi cancelled. It was the first time I'd holidayed alone, and it was absolutely the best."

- Marie Helvin

"One of the best parts of Thanksgiving for me is re-watching some of the classic holiday blunders that have been depicted on television. I remember laughing uncontrollably on the set of 'That Girl' back in 1967 when we shot the episode, 'Thanksgiving Comes But Once A Year, Hopefully' during our second season."

- Marlo Thomas

"A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work."

- Morris Fishbein

"Kindness, tolerance, integrity, modesty, generosity - these are attributes that events permit us. They are our holiday moods, and we are as proud of them as of the fine clothes we have hung away to wear on occasions."

- Ben Hecht

"I work everyday, but every day is a holiday for me because I enjoy my work."

- Sudha Murty

"Vacation: a period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need."

- Jerry Smith

"Corned beef and cabbage - that's our favorite holiday meal when all the O' Haras gather around the table."

- Kelli O'Hara

"Devon holds a special place in my heart. As a child, I normally went on holiday to Bantham and have lots of happy memories from my time there. I used to catch sand eels in the early morning and go fishing for bass throughout the day. I remember a gull taking my bait."

- Richard Branson

"Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love."

- Hamilton Wright Mabie

"What if, today, we were grateful for everything?"

- Charlie Brown

"Give thanks for a little, and you will find a lot."

- Hausa Proverb

"A candle is a small thing. But one candle can light another. And see how its own light increases, as a candle gives its flame to the other. You are such a light."

- Moshe Davis

"We light candles in testament that faith makes miracles possible."

- Nachum Braverman

"You can get excited about the future. The past won’t mind."

- Hillary DePiano

"I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again."

- Tim Vine

"Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life."

- Buddha

"Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful"

- W.T. Ellis

"Every man who possibly can force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not."

- William James

"A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together."

- Garrison Keillor

"Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind."

- Mary Ellen Chase

"Read a lot when you’re on vacation, but nothing that has to do with your business."

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr

"Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness."

- Anne Frank

"You gotta find your best self and when you do, you gotta hold on to it for dear life."

- Cheryl Strayed

"When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thinking they could be a new person."

- Aimee Friedman

"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine."

- Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Isn’t it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?"

- Zig Ziglar

"A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in."

- Robert Orben

"The journey, not the arrival, matters."

- T.S. Eliot

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."

- Edith Wharton

"There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus."

- Bob Phillips

"A systemic cleansing and detox is definitely the way to go after each holiday. It is the key to fighting high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, and other health-related illnesses."

- Lee Haney

"I don't classify myself as the first space tourist because I wasn't as though I paid and had a holiday out of it - although I had a fab time."

- Helen Sharman

"On Hanukkah, the first dark night, light yourself a candle bright. I’ll you, if you will me invite, to dance within that gentle light."

- Nicholas Gordon

"My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection."

- Hamish Bowles

"Some people think that going on a caravan holiday is a slightly more upscale version of camping. Let me assure you, it is much better than that. You know that you will have your creature comforts wherever you are. I never have to pack light, and I can put the kettle on in any location."

- Margaret Beckett

"Like Christmas, Easter has lost much of its religious meaning in popular culture. Ask your average kid what the holiday is about and they will tell you all about the Easter Bunny, eggs hunts and baskets full of candy."

- Rachel Campos-Duffy

"No matter what fabulous place I visit, I don’t feel like I’m on vacation unless I’m dehydrated and covered with sunscreen."

- Chelsea Cain

"A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let's eat!"

- Alan King

"It may come as a surprise, but Frou Frou was really like a kind of little holiday from my own work. Guy and I, we have always worked together, and then over the years, it became clear that we wanted to do a whole album together. It was very organic and spontaneous - just one of those wonderful things that happens."

- Imogen Heap

"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."

- Kenneth Grahame

"I just feel - specifically about that holiday - why is it just one day that you have to tell the person that you love how much you love them? I think that is a little silly. I am much more the girl that likes the spontaneous."

- Michelle Trachtenberg

"I love my country, but I live in it for 46 weeks of the year, so is it really so terrible to admit that, when I go on holiday, I want to spend a few weeks somewhere - anywhere - else?"

- Julia Hartley-Brewer

"My goal is to hit the gym every day I’m on vacation. Usually, I just end up sleeping and drinking beer."

- Gary Allan

"I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn't. In fact, I didn't even know you were supposed to have one."

- John C. Maxwell

"I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That's what I do, too, so I think that's a great comparison."

- Erykah Badu

"My mum was well-travelled, well-educated and made me understand from books, from my imagination and from just taking me away on holiday once a year, wherever she could, that the world was bigger than Peckham."

- Ashley Walters

"Think Indonesia and tourism, and the first thing that comes to mind is probably Bali. Think golf holiday, and most people would dream of Scotland or Ireland. But Indonesia harbors one of the best-kept secrets in the world of travel: it is a golfer's paradise."

- Raymond Bonner

"Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin. Now, they are so subtle, they can milk you with two notes. They can make you feel like they told you the whole universe. But I don't know that yet. All I got now is strength. Maybe if I keep singing, maybe I'll get it."

- Janis Joplin

"I have had a holiday, and I'd like to take it up professionally."

- Kylie Minogue

"Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year."

- Victor Borge

"I'm probably the only one in the world you can name that's worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy, Ray Charles, Aretha, Michael Jackson, rappers. 'Fly Me to the Moon' was played on the moon by Buzz Aldrin. Sinatra. Paul Simon. Tony Bennett. I'm the only one."

- Quincy Jones

"Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome."

- Amelia Barr

"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends."

- Christopher Hitchens

"My favorite place to vacation is anyplace by the ocean."

- Nina Arianda

"Jet lag is for amateurs."

- Dick Clark

"Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered."

- Phyllis Diller

"My normal life is like being on holiday."

- Valentino Rossi

"If you're thinking of coming to America, this is what it's like: you've got your Comfort Inn, you've got your Best Western, and you've got your Red Lobster where you eat. Everybody's very fat, everybody's very stupid and everybody's very rude - it's not a holiday programme, it's the truth."

- Jeremy Clarkson

"What I find most disturbing about Valentine's Day is, look, I get that you have to have a holiday of love, but in the height of flu season, it makes no sense."

- Lewis Black

"In 1924, I became a Dozent in Gottingen and worked out the quantum mechanics during a holiday stay on Heligoland."

- Werner Heisenberg

"Dear Santa, Before I explain, how much do you know already?"

- Anon

"Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life."

- Brian Clough

"What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day."

- Phyllis Diller

"A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Me and my sister made up a game called 'Milky Cow'. We were on holiday in France when I was 12, and there was a kid who had bovine features, and every time we went past her, we'd say, 'There's Milky Cow'."

- Greg Davies

"I have never gone on a real trip, never taken a holiday. The best holiday for me is spent in my workshops when nearly everybody else is on vacation."

- Enzo Ferrari

"I drove 3,500 miles this summer on our family holiday, we drove across 10 countries. I have driven across the United States four times. I love cars, I love being in cars, I think so do most people. I want to help and support those people who have that same kind of enthusiasm for driving that I have."

- Geoff Hoon

"The whole Valentine's thing is fine, but you don't back it up right next to the biggest gift-giving holiday of the year. Unbelievable. And we find it acceptable."

- Lewis Black

"People are lost. Their feelings are based around material things, and because that doesn't make them happy, they look for something else: bullfighting or soccer, or they go travelling, off to India - and that's not right. You can't just decide, 'I'm going on holiday to India.' Only when God allows you to. You have to ask His permission to go there."

- Justo Gallego

"Patriots' Day is the essence of Boston, a Massachusetts-only holiday that seems like it was invented to celebrate Boston."

- Steve Kornacki

"The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to."

- P. J. O'Rourke

"My ma wanted to go and have a wee look at where all the Scottish kings had been buried. So we traipsed over Mull, in the pishing rain, with the parents desperately trying to find things to do as is the case with a holiday in Scotland, then on to Iona."

- Douglas Henshall

"There's this great thing called the 'Chitlin' Circuit,' which I started my shows on and back in the day when, you know, Ray Charles and Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington, they couldn't get into white establishments, so they went on this circuit and toured. They were huge stars in their own community, you know, and that's pretty much my same story."

- Tyler Perry

"'Best Man Holiday' was a very successful film."

- Kevin Hart

"I don't fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach."

- Mary Roach

"I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working - when I first moved to Nashville - in a bar in a Holiday Inn."

- Jimmy Buffett

"Being in The Fall isn't like being in another group. It isn't a holiday. A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren't as smart as me."

- Mark E. Smith

"I don't want to answer questions about my favourite food or holiday spot."

- Ram Gopal Varma

"Martin Luther King can have his own self-titled birthday recognized as a national holiday, but not our country's first president?"

- The Ultimate Warrior

"Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap."

- Simone de Beauvoir

"The best is yet to come."

"It’s the most wonderful time of the year!"

"It’s not what’s under the Christmas tree that matters, it’s who is around it."

"Just a reminder that I’m going on vacation and you’re not."

"I need a 6-month vacation, twice a year."

"May love and light fill your home and heart at Hanukkah."

"Vacation calories don’t count."

"A little more fun, a little more love, a little more light every night. That’s the joy of Hanukkah."

"The magic of Christmas never ends and its greatest of gifts are family and friends."

- Unknown

"Three phrases that sum up Christmas are: Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men, and Batteries not Included."

"Christmas is a magical time of year… I just watched all my money magically disappear."

"Take a vacation so long, you forget all of your passwords."

- Unknown

"There should be sympathy cards for having to go back to work after the holidays."

- Unknown

"Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go."

"May the Spirit of the Holidays be with you throughout the New Year."

"The holiday season is a perfect time to reflect on our blessings and seek out ways to make life better for those around us."

"I hope you will enjoy this marvelous holiday to the fullest. May you find a million reasons to be happy today and every day. Happy holiday!"