Holiday Quotes for the Signs - 2009 Reprised

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by Joyce Mason
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These gems apply, regardless of reference, to Christmas, Chanukah, Winter Solstice, Kwanzaa—whatever you celebrate.

~ “Joyce Noël” from The Radical Virgo!

Aries: Don't celebrate a holiday before it arrives. ~ Author Unknown

Taurus: Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice. ~ Dave Berry

Gemini: Even as an adult I find it difficult to sleep on Christmas Eve. Yuletide excitement is a potent caffeine, no matter your age. ~Carrie Latet

Cancer: No self-respecting mother would run out of intimidations on the eve of a major holiday. ~ Erma Bombeck

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Leo: There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ~ Erma Bombeck

Virgo: If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important. ~ Bertrand Russell

Libra: Love the giver more than the gift. ~ Brigham Young

Scorpio: Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas. ~ John Cleese, "Monty Python"

Bonus for All Signs: The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin. ~ Jay Leno

Sagittarius: The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to. ~ P.J. O’Rourke

Capricorn: When you like your work, every day’s a holiday. ~ Frank Tyger

Aquarius:  Peace on Earth--You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. ~ Malcolm X

Pisces: Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. ~ Hamilton Wright Mabie
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More Quotes for the Signs. Quotes for the Signs #1, Quotes #2, Quotes #3, and Quotes #4.

Quotes for the Signs #5

ARIES: The heart is cooking a pot of food for you. Be patient until it is cooked. ~ Rumi

TAURUS: Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves. ~ Dorothy Parker

GEMINI: To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ~ Lao Tsu

CANCER: Home is the girl`s prison and the woman`s workhouse. ~ George Bernard Shaw

LEO:

I wish I was a glow worm,
A glow worm's never glum.
'Cos how can you be grumpy
When the sun shines out your bum!

~ Author Unknown

VIRGO: Whenever you fall, pick something up. ~Oswald Avery

LIBRA: You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart. ~ George Michael, "Kissing A Fool"

SCORPIO: Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it’s looks, most women know otherwise. ~ Kathleen Turner

SAGITTARIUS: Those who are brutally honest are seldom wo with themselves. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

CAPRICORN: Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. - Henry J Kaiser

AQUARIUS: Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ~Judy Garland

PISCES: A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body—the wishbone. ~ Robert Frost

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Quotes for the Signs #4

© 2009 by Joyce Mason

I keep finding them—or they find me! Here’s Round Four of the latest zodiac quotefest.

ARIES - Patience is the ability to count down before you blast off. ~Author Unknown

TAURUS -  There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it. ~Elizabeth A. Behnke

GEMINI - I keep six honest serving-men,

They taught me all I knew;

Their names are What and Why and When

And How and Where and Who.  ~Rudyard Kipling

CANCER: Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson:  you find the present tense, but the past perfect!  ~Owens Lee Pomeroy

LEO -  Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. ~Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943

VIRGO - We are the products of editing, rather than authorship. ~George Wald, "The Origin of Optical Activity," Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 1975

LIBRA - Endurance is frequently a form of indecision. ~Elizabeth Bibesco, Haven, 195

SCORPIO -  Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark. ~Zen Proverb

SAGITTARIUS -  Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered character. Blessed is he who acts as Columbus to his own soul. ~Author Unknown

CAPRICORN - The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it. ~Elaine Agather

AQUARIUS - Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya. ~Walter Kaufmann

PISCES - Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time. ~Timothy Leary

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Quotes for the Signs #3

It's time for more Quotes for the Signs! I'll continue these words to live by for each of the 12 characters of the zodiac as long as readers keep reading them. They are popular posts, so on with Round Three!

ARIES: In this age, which believes that there is a shortcut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. ~Henry Miller

TAURUS: The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. ~George Bernard Shaw

GEMINI: Be kind to your shadow. ~Rebecca Lawless

LEO: Swallow your pride occasionally; it's non-fattening! ~Author Unknown

VIRGO: No one is perfect... that's why pencils have erasers. ~Author Unknown

LIBRA: What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you. ~Richard Wilbur

SCORPIO: I'm not a woman, I'm a force of nature. ~ Courtney Love

SAGITTARIUS: It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. ~Attributed to Harry S. Truman

CAPRICORN: No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

AQUARIUS: It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not. ~Andre Gide

PISCES: Illusion is the first of all pleasures. ~ Voltaire

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Read More Quotes for the Signs: Quotes #1 and Quotes #2.

Humor: Quotes for the Signs #2

Aries: He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Taurus: To succeed in life in today's world, you must have the will and tenacity to finish the job. ~ Chin-Ning Chu

Gemini: No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

Cancer: Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

Leo: I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part. ~ Shirley MacLaine

Virgo: The aim of life is self development. To realize one's nature perfectly--that is what each of us is here for. -- Oscar Wilde

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Libra: When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always. ~ Rita Rudner

Scorpio: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. ~ Mohandas Gandhi

Sagittarius: Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. ~ Buddha

Capricorn: The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape. ~ Bono

Aquarius: You were born an original. Don't die a copy. ~John Mason

Pisces: There are only two words that will always lead you to success. Those words are yes and no. Undoubtedly, you’ve mastered saying yes. So start practicing saying no. Your goals depend on it! ~ Jack Canfield

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Read More Quotes for the Signs: Quotes #1 and Quotes #3.

Humor: Quotes for the Astrological Signs

© 2009 by Joyce Mason

Aries: If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score? - Vince Lombardi

Taurus: A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. – Jane Austen

Gemini: People change and forget to tell each other. - Lillian Hellman

Cancer: All women become like their mothers. That’s their tragedy. No man does. That’s his. – Oscar Wilde

Leo: The ego is not master in its own house. – Sigmund Freud

Virgo: Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely. – P.J. O’Rourke

Libra: Are we not like two volumes of one book? - Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

Scorpio: Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. - Leo Buscaglia

Sagittarius: Laughter is an instant vacation. - Anonymous

Capricorn: Accountability, noun. The mother of caution. – Ambrose Bierce

Aquarius: S/he doesn’t just hear a different drummer; s/he hears another orchestra. – My husband, Tim

Pisces: The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink. – Henry Rollins

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