“The Christmas Song,” by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me, it just sounds like the holidays. I’ve never sung it, because Nat’s version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone. — Harry Connick, Jr.

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours. — J. B. Priestly

Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation. — Winston Churchill