His first holiday.

-Lardner Bursiquot
His own suggested epitaph.  Attributed.

There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian motheröhe, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday.

-Rochdale
^18  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 4, stanza141.

It's a regular holiday to themöall porter and skittles.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^7  Pickwick Papers, ch.41.

I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.

-Mondale,Walter F(rederick)
  On withdrawing from the presidential campaign.

Thislittlesteamer, likeall herbraveand battered sisters,is immortal. She'll go sailing proudly down the years in the epic of Dunkirk. And our great-great-grand-children, when they learn how we began this war by snatching glory out of defeat, and then swept on to victory, may also learn how the little holiday steamers made an excursion to hell and came back glorious.

-Priestley,J(ohn) B(oynton)
  Radio broadcast, 5 Jun, quoted in The Listener,13 Jun.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Parents and Children.