Wars Holiday Special

Famous quotes containing the words wars, holiday and/or special:

“We have to have wars now and then just to prove we’re top dog.”
—Reginald Berkeley (1890–1935)

“A holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there’s nothing left to celebrate but the dead.”
—Abraham Polonsky (b. 1910)

“In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)