Quotes To Remember

||Chapter Thirty-five|| The one with the beard

Category: Holidays/Winter (the answer to every question is: lily pollen)

1. “There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus.” – Bob Phillips

2. “The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.” – Johnny Carson

3. “I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.” – Bernard Manning

4. “I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.” – Shirley Temple

5. ''It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.'' -Chinese Proverb

6. ''Now, near the Winter Solstice, it is good to light candles. All the nice meanings of bringing light to the world can be beautiful. But perhaps we are concentrating on lighting the world because we don't know how to light up our own lives.'' -Ralph Levy, Hanukkah - Another View

7. ''Put on your yarmulke,

Here comes Hanukkah!

So much funukah,

To celebrate Hanukkah!

Hanukkah is the festival of lights.

Instead of one day of presents, we have eight crazy nights.'' -Adam Sandler, The Hanukkah Song

8. ''Christmas brings enormous electric bills. Candles are used for Hanukkah. Not only are we spared enormous electric bills, but we get to feel good about not contributing to the energy crisis.'' -Koach.org, Koach Humor: Holiday Differences Finally Explained

9. ''I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.'' -Jewish Proverb

10. ''Life was a funny thing that occured on the way to the grave.'' -Quentin Crisp

11. ''I watched a porno once, it was really funny.'' -Katie Holmes

12. ''It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.'' -John Burroughs

13. ''I prefer winter and Fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape — the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.'' -Andrew Wyeth

 14. ''Drive my dead thoughts over the universe

Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth!

And, by the incantation of this verse,

Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth

Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!

Be through my lips to unawakened earth

The trumpet of a prophecy! O, wind,

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?''

-Percy Bysshe Shelley

a/n: I know #10 and #11 relate in no way to the holidays but when I researched winter quotes they showed up, so I'm treating them like they do.