Holiday at Troynovant:
interludes of high days of celebration,
of Commemoration or Memorial,
in America & elsewhere;
listed by Title
  

There hardly could be a simpler assault on the concept of, and potential for, true Nobility in American statesmanship, than the casual downgrading of Washington's Birthday and Lincoln's Birthday into Presidents' Day, where these best are like the worst.

Banners for Constitutionalists
from The Sly Tyrant's Handbook

  

For the new year. — I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Book 4: "Sanctus Januarius", #276
The Gay Science   (1882; 1887)
translated by Walter Kaufmann   

  
[A royal residence, probably Windsor Castle.]

Prince Harry:

If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work;
But when they seldom come, they wished-for come ...

William Shakespeare
1 Henry IV, 1.3.182-184

  
[Pogo on New Year's resolutions.]

Howland Owl:
    You ought to break a resolution now an' then, Pogo ... it might ree-fresh a lil do-gooder like yo' self.

Pogo:
    What kind resolutions breaks easy?

Howland Owl:
    Any kind I makes ... man, I is got resolutions left over from last year what I isn't even had time to break yet!

Pogo:
    Bring a couple over, size 6 1/2.

Walt Kelly
Pogo, 27 December 1950

Pogo - Through the Wild Blue Wonder
The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips, Volume 1 [1949-1950]