Top 19 Quotes About Saturnalia

#1. The truth is Christmas evolved from the Roman holiday Saturnalia, a winter festival where men gave gifts to each other. They also would get drunk, have sex with each other and beat their wives

Huey Freeman The Boondocks

#2. [ ... ] And those women with the camera looked loose.
Excellent, Phin thought. At last, some good news.

Jennifer Crusie

#3. Etiquette? What kind of etiquette was there in someone trying to murder me?

Jennifer Estep

#4. Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.

Aldous Huxley

#5. I was always getting in trouble because I was the class clown but I always made teacher laugh. I remember I thought I was going to fail that class but I ended up passing it and I really think it was only because I was good entertainment for her.

Larry The Cable Guy

#6. On the opposite bank, a hummingbird, whirring it's invisible wings, ate the heart of a giant tiger lily.

Truman Capote

#7. ...officers in the army, (except those in the highest positions), are paid most inadequately for the services they perform; and the deficiency is made up by honor, which is represented by titles and orders, and, in general, by the system of rank and distinction.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#8. The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life.

Robert Morrison MacIver

#9. Was this then Lent, pressing hard on the heels of Saturnalia? Not

Ford Madox Ford

#10. In global warming, I think everyone is scratching their heads - are there technological things that can be brought to bear that can make a difference?

Paul Allen

#11. I found myself wanting the monster because it was honest, a level of honesty most go their entire lives without confronting, always content to hide behind their social masks and business cards. It

Kitty Thomas

#12. I may without fail
Suffer the first vision that set fire to the stars.

Dylan Thomas

#13. With any president it is difficult to predict how the world will be effected by his presence in the white house.

Diahann Carroll

#14. I'm talking to you in bed at one in the morning. How mad can I be?
I picture him there, in what, flannel pajamas? Underwear? Nothing at all?

Jeannine Garsee

#15. The difficult opponent is the best.

Frederick Lenz

#16. Joy is not a feeling in us. Joy does not enter into us. We enter into joy: "Enter into the joy of your Lord" (Mt 25:21).

Peter Kreeft

#17. In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of 'freedom', like a bastard brother of reform.

Wyndham Lewis

#18. I am not only fighting against something, I am fighting for something - and I am for life.

Andrea Bocelli

#19. HOLLY TREE (Ilex aquifolium) is a symbol of good will and is associated with sun gods. In Rome the holly was sacred to Saturn and was employed in the rites of the Saturnalia, where it was a symbol of health and happiness. The holly is an evergreen and therefore is associated with the sun god.

Raven Grimassi

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