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«Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.»
«You wouldn't believe On All Hallow Eve What lots of fun we can make, With apples to bob, And nuts on the hob,And a ring-and-thimble cake.»
«Very old are we men; / Our dreams are tales / Told in dim Eden / By Eve's nightingales.»
«Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory of the lost Paradise. It is the sense that even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.»
Author: Henry Van Dyke
(Essayist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
Eden, Eve, fit to, inherited, loveliness, Mother Nature, Paradise Lost, pathos, sense of touch, The sense, unconscious
«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.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Behavior,
Drinking,
New Year
| Keywords:
culminate, culminated, culminates, culminating, drunkenness, Eve, holiday, holiday season
«Rats! They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And eve»
«We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: none is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope! Rally to the standard, and be no longer the scoff of mercenary tongues! Be men, be free men, that your children may bless their father's name.»
«The Bible account of the creation of Eve is a preposterous fable»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| Keywords:
account of the creation, Eve, fable, preposterous
«The grate had been removed from the wide overwhelming fireplace, to make way for a fire of wood, in the midst of which was an enormous log glowing and blazing, and sending forth a vast volume of light and heat; this I understood was the Yule-log, which the Squire was particular in having brought in and illumined on a Christmas eve, according to ancient custom.»
«St Agnes' Eve - Ah, bitter chill it was! / The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; / The hare limped trembling through the frozen grass, / And silent was the flock in woolly fold.»
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