What did Charles Lamb mean by: Of all sound of all bells… most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year. - Charles Lamb Writer · England Copy
+ The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Lamb, Festivals, Letters, Purpose, 0 - Charles Lamb Writer · England
+ He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Lamb, Mixtures, Perfection, 0 - Charles Lamb Writer · England
+ Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Lamb, Character, Nerves, Wit, 0 - Charles Lamb Writer · England
+ To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Lamb, Honey, Sugar, Sweetness, 0 - Charles Lamb Writer · England
+ If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there! Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Lamb, Bed, Sick, Solitude, 0 - Charles Lamb Writer · England
+ No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Lamb, Eye, Heaven, Watches, 0 - Charles Lamb Writer · England
+ In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Lamb, Behinds, Science, 0 - Charles Lamb Writer · England
+ Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below? Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Lamb, Destiny, Errands, Riddle, 0 - Charles Lamb Writer · England
I would rather receive a Pap smear from Captain Hook than venture out on New Year’s Eve. - Jen Lancaster Author · USA
Sharing holiday snaps on social media is an act of arrogant vanity. - Jeremy Paxman Journalist · United Kingdom
The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party. - William James Philosopher and psychologist · USA
It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me. - Frank Sinatra Singer · USA
We should try to hold on to the Christmas spirit, not just one day a year, but all 365. - Mary Martin Actress · USA
Along my journey / through this transitory world, / new year’s housecleaning. - Matsuo Basho Poet · Japan
A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass. - May Sarton Poet · Belgium
