Quotes about festivals

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

— Jean Baudrillard

Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.

— Alistair Cooke

The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.

— Charles Lamb

It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front pocket can be picked by a trotting horse looking for sugar, and your hind pocket by a thief looking for his fortune.

— Elwyn Brooks White

Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small-arms!)

— Walt Whitman