December 23 - Monday Quote(s)

For this Monday before Christmas: a little culture, a little comedy...

At Christmas I no more desire a rose

Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth;

But like of each thing that in season grows.

 (from Love's Labour Lost by William Shakespeare, playwright, 1564-1616)

Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us...a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird...a social being...capable of actual affection...nuzzling its young with almost human-like compassion.  Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it.  Please give our respects to its family.

(from Bloom County by Guy Berkeley, writing as "Berke" Breathed, cartoonist, 1957 -    )