Halloween

I'll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween.  ~Author Unknown

Bring forth the raisins and the nuts-
Tonight All-Hallows' Spectre struts
Along the moonlit way.
~John Kendrick Bangs


From ghoulies and ghosties
And long-leggedy beasties
And things that go bump in the night,
Good Lord, deliver us!
~Scottish Saying


'Tis the night - the night
Of the grave's delight,
And the warlocks are at their play;
Ye think that without
The wild winds shout,
But no, it is they - it is they.
~Arthur Cleveland Coxe


Those seemingly interminable dark walks between houses, long before street-lit safety became an issue, were more adrenalizing than the mountains of candy filling the sack.  Sadly Halloween, with our good-natured attempts to protect the little ones, from the increasingly dangerous traffic and increasingly sick adults, has become an utter bore.  ~Lauren Springer


Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite,
All are on their rounds tonight;
In the wan moon's silver ray,
Thrives their helter-skelter play.
~Joel Benton


Auld Daddy Darkness creeps frae his hole,
Black as a blackmoor, blin' as a mole.
~James Farguson


A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.  ~Erma Bombeck


Red serpents, fiery forms, and yelling hags,
Fit company for mad adventurers.
~Philip Freneau


At first cock-crow the ghosts must go
Back to their quiet graves below.
~Theodosia Garrison


'Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world.
~William Shakespeare


Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to.  ~Richard Harris Barham


Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire,
And airy tongues that syllable men's names.
~John Milton


Men say that in this midnight hour,
The disembodièd have power
To wander as it liketh them,
By wizard oak and fairy stream.
~William Motherwell


Hark! Hark to the wind! 'Tis the night, they say,
When all souls come back from the far away-
The dead, forgotten this many a day!
~Virna Sheard


You wouldn't believe
On All Hallow Eve
What lots of fun we can make,
With apples to bob,
And nuts on the hob,
And a ring-and-thimble cake.
~Carolyn Wells