Wars Holiday Special

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

“Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlesly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the genius of renewal!”
—Charles De Gaulle (1890–1970)

“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)

“I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)