Gay Winter Games

Famous quotes containing the words gay, winter and/or games:

    KRUMPACKER: Yes London’s a little too gay for us
    Don’t think I mean anything coarse
    But I’m afraid we couldn’t stand the pace.
    What about it Klip?
    KLIPSTEIN: You said it, Krum.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    The first general store opened on the ‘Cold Saturday’ of the winter of 1833 ... Mrs. Mary Miller, daughter of the store’s promoter, recorded in a letter: ‘Chickens and birds fell dead from their roosts, cows ran bellowing through the streets’; but she failed to state what effect the freeze had on the gala occasion of the store opening.
    —Administration in the State of Sout, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)