HALLOWEEN QUOTES III
quotations about Halloween
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My favorite Halloween candy is the candy corn. It comes in four colors: white, yellow, orange, brown. Those are also the stages of your teeth rotting after you eat it.
JAY LENO
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The Tonight Show, Oct. 31, The Tonight Show, Oct. 31, 2012
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Midnight has come, and the great Christ Church Bell
And many a lesser bell sound through the room;
And it is All Soul's Night,
And two long glasses brimmed with muscatel
Bubble upon the table. A ghost may come;
For it is a ghost's right,
His element is so fine
Being sharpened by his death,
To drink from the wine-breath
While our gross palates drink from the whole wine.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
"All Soul's Night"
At the very glimpse of a Jack-o'-lantern
I've got one foot on the bus to Scranton.
When Halloween next delivers the goods,
You may duck for apples--I'll duck for the woods.
OGDEN NASH
"Trick or Trek"
Sticky fingers
Tired feet;
One last house,
"Trick or Treat!"
RUSTY FISCHER
attributed, Bustle
Help transform Halloween into a holiday with some ethical values, have children collect food for the hungry rather than candy for the well-fed.
JEFFREY K. SALKIN
Putting God on the Guest List
Double double toil and trouble,
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Macbeth
When witches go riding, & black cats are seen, the moon laughs & whispers, 'tis near Halloween.
ANONYMOUS
19th-century Halloween postcard
Halloween is the beginning of the holiday shopping season. That's for women. The beginning of the holiday shopping season for men is Christmas Eve.
DAVID LETTERMAN
Late Show with David Letterman, Oct. 31, 2011
I like Halloween. It gives you a chance to dress up like something you're not, you know? Like when the Miami Dolphins put on football uniforms.
DAVID LETTERMAN
Late Show with David Letterman, Nov. 1, 2011
There was ... a serious and weird feeling, on Hallow E'en night, not felt so much on any other night; witches and evil spirits were believed to be more numerous than usual; fairies were believed to be unusually active; ghosts were supposed to make their appearance on this night; and a full-dress performance of the watch in the church-porch on that night was capable of teaching the watchers that the Angel of Death is sometimes nearer than they imagine.
A. R. WRIGHT
British Calendar Customs
Halloween's eve is also known as mischief night. Kids are supposed go around playing pranks tonight. That's great, just what teenagers need -- another excuse to be jerks.
CRAIG FERGUSON
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Oct. 30, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Oct. 30, 2013
Halloween's coming. Kids get very imaginative in my neighborhood. Last year, three kids showed up as Goldman Sachs executives and demanded 4.5 billion pieces of candy.
JAY LENO
The Tonight Show, October 16, The Tonight Show, October 16, 2009
'Tis the night--the night
Of the grave's delight,
And the warlocks are at their play!
Ye think that without,
The wild winds shout,
But no, it is they--it is they!
ARTHUR CLEVELAND COXE
Halloween: A Romaunt
What is Halloween? I will tell you. A celebration of evil magic. Do you not remember the plagues of Egypt and how doors were stained with blood to appease evil spirits from taking firstborns? Okay. So now the ritual is to dress up as spirits of all kinds to go ask for tricks or treats as tributes to evil. Cut yourself to drip blood as a contract for your soul or offer your firstborn to appease a demon. Most people then offered their firstborns. That's the true story. They threw their children in the fire to the big wooden Idol.
SUZY KASSEM
Rise Up and Salute the Sun
From Ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggety beasties
And things that go bump in the night,
Good lord, deliver us.
CORNISH PRAYER
The evening of October thirty-one is Hallowe'en or Nut Crack Night. It is clearly a relic of pagan times but it is still very popular. It is a night set apart for walking about and playing harmless pranks, such as placing the hotel omnibus on top of the Baptist church or plugging the milkman's pump.
KIN HUBBARD
The Best of Kin Hubbard
In many ways, Halloween is the most American of holidays: secular, irreverent, and unashamedly consumerist. And as with many American cultural products, it has become a wildly successful export.
LISA MORTON
attributed, Boo: Halloween's Quest For World Domination
While Halloween has many fun customs, it is also a time to challenge and mock evil.
DAVID BENNETT
Halloween Prayers
It was Halloween that did me in, that single day when your children turn to you for imagination and creativity, the one day of the year when you must transcend fantasy.
ERMA BOMBECK
Forever Erma