‘Christmas’, my child, is love in action.
Dale Evans-1912*
At Christmas, all roads lead home.
Marjorie Holmes
‘Christmas’ is the Disneyfication of Christianity
Don Cupitt
‘Christmas’ isn’t a season. It’s a feeling.
Edna Ferber
Remember this December,
that love weighs more than gold!
Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon
‘Christmas’ is not a date. It is a state of mind.
Mary Ellen Chase
‘Christmas’ isn’t just a day, it’s a frame of mind.
Valentine Davies
Let’s be naughty and save ‘Santa’ the trip.
Gary Allan
Roses are reddish
Violets are bluish
If it weren’t for Christmas
We’d all be Jewish.
Benny Hill
‘Christmas’ now surrounds us,
Happiness is everywhere
Our hands are busy with many tasks
As carols fill the air.
Shirley Sallay
‘Santa Claus wears a Red Suit,
He must be a communist.
And a beard and long hair,
Must be a pacifist.
What’s in that pipe that he’s smoking’?
Arlo Guthrie
At Christmas play and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year
Thomas Tusser
Peace on earth will come to stay,
When we live Christmas every day.
Helen Steiner Rice
The Christmas spirit*love*changes hearts and lives.
Pat Boone
There are no strangers on Christmas Eve.
Adele Comandini & Edward Sutherland
It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.
W* T* Ellis
‘Christmas’ hath a beauty … lovelier than the world can show.
Christina G. Rossetti
Great little One! whose all-embracing birth
Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.
Richard Crashaw
May the spirit of Christmas bring you peace,
The gladness of Christmas give you hope,
The warmth of Christmas grant you love.
*Christmas Quotes*
A ‘Christmas’ gambol oft could cheer
The poor man’s heart through half the year.
Walter Scott
May Christmas bring you happiness,
A song to fill your heart
With all the blessings large and small
The season doth impart.
Garnett Ann Schultz
Keep your Christmas-heart open all the year round.
Jessica Archmint
May Christmas lend a special charm
To all you chance to do.
And may the season light your way
To hopes and dreams anew.
Garnett Ann Schultz
The earth has grown old with its burden of care,
But at Christmas it always is young.
Phillips Brooks
May the song of Christmas
Be music to your ears
A symphony of love
That resounds throughout the year.
Joy Bell Burgess
A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!
Charles Dickens
The perfect Christmas tree? All Christmas trees are perfect!
Charles N. Barnard
The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature.
Andy Rooney-1919*
The best Christmas of all is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up with one another.
*Christmas Quotes*
Something about an old-fashioned Christmas is hard to forget.
Hugh Downs-1921*
‘Christmas’ is doing a little something extra for someone.
Charles Schulz-1922*
‘Christmas’, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
Mary Ellen Chase
It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.
W.T. Ellis
‘Christmas’ is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence.
Joan Mills
This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.
Taylor Caldwell-1900*
Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.
Dale Evans
We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
‘Christmas’ is, of course, the time to be home – in heart as well as body.
Garry Moore
As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is.
Eric Sevareid-1912*
There has been only one Christmas – the rest are anniversaries.
W.J. Cameron
Santa is very jolly because he knows where all the bad girls live.
Dennis Miller
I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
Charles Dickens*-1812*
He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
Roy L. Smith
For the spirit of Christmas fulfils the greatest hunger of mankind.
Loring A. Schuler
However much of Christmas giving, the real Christmas must be first in the heart.
*Christmas Quotes*
Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles.
*Christmas Quotes*
‘Christmas’ is the time to let your heart do the thinking.
Patricia Clafford
‘Christmas’ is a time when you get homesick – even when you’re home.
Carol Nelson
May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through!
*Christmas Quotes*
Nothing’s as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.
Kin Hubbard
If ‘ifs’ and ‘buts’ were candy and nuts, wouldn’t it be a Merry Christmas?
Don Meredith
‘Christmas’ is sights, especially the sights of Christmas reflected in the eyes of a child.
William Saroyan
‘Christmas’ is the season when you buy this year’s gifts with next year’s money.
*Christmas Quotes*
To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year.
E.B. White-1954*
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!
Hamilton Wright Mabie
Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind; Teach us to be patient and always to be kind.
Helen Steiner Rice
Which Christmas is the most vivid to me? It’s always the next Christmas.”
Joanne Woodward-1930*
‘Christmas’ is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.
Janice Maeditere
Remember, if Christmas isn’t found in your heart, you won’t find it under a tree.
Charlotte Carpenter
Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.
Peg Bracken
He who has no Christmas in his heart will never find Christmas under a tree.
*Sunshine-Magazine*
‘Christmas’ is doing a little something extra for someone.
Charles Schulz
A Christmas candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise at all, But softly gives itself away; While quite unselfish, it grows small.
Eva K. Logue
Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving,and of families united.
Norman Vincent Peale
‘Christmas’ is not just a day, an event to be observed and speedily forgotten. It is a spirit which should permeate every part of our lives.
William Parks
A little smile, a word of cheer, A bit of love from someone near, A little gift from one held dear, Best wishes for the coming year… These make a Merry ‘Christmas’!
John Greenleaf Whittier
‘Christmas’ is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today’s Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.
Gladys Tabor
Next to a circus there ain’t nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
Kin Hubbard
‘Christmas’ is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.
Margaret Thatcher-1925*
Do give books * religious or otherwise – for Christmas. They’re never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.
Lenore Hershey
‘Christmas’ is a spirit that flows from one heart to another. It is more precious than rubies and better than gold.
Agnes M. Pharo
‘Christmas’ is the one time of year when people of all religions come together to worship Jesus Christ.
Bart Simpson
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.
Shirley Temple
Maybe Christmas,” he thought, “doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas… perhaps… means a little bit more.
Dr. Seuss-1904*
‘Christmas’ at my house is always at least six or seven times more pleasant than anywhere else. We start drinking early. And while everyone else is seeing only one Santa Claus, we’ll be seeing six or seven.
W. C. Fields
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance – each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
Deborah Whipp-1964*
‘Christmas’ is not just a time for festivity and merry making. It is more than that. It is a time for the contemplation of eternal things. The Christmas spirit is a spirit of giving and forgiving.
J. C. Penney
‘Christmas’ is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
Calvin Coolidge
‘Christmas’! ‘Tis the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial fire of charity in the heart.
Washington Irving
They err who thinks Santa Claus comes down through the chimney; he really enters through the heart.
Mrs. Paul M. Ell.
Do give books * religious or otherwise – for Christmas. They’re never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.
Lenore Hershey
‘Christmas’ is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves.
Eric Sevareid
‘Unless’ we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won’t make it ‘white’.
Bing Crosby-1904*
My first copies of Treasure Island and Huckleberry Finn still have some blue-spruce needles scattered in the pages. They smell of Christmas still.
Charlton Heston-1923*
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white man would be coming into my neighborhood after dark.
Dick Gregory
‘Christmas’ renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
Ralph Sockman-1889*
A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
Garrison Keillor
Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.
*Christmas Quotes*
‘Christmas’ is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.
George Bernard Shaw
It is the personal thoughtfulness, the warm human awareness, the reaching out of the self to one’s fellow man that makes giving worthy of the Christmas spirit.
Isabel Currier
From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
Katharine Whitehorn
‘Christmas’ is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year – and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority.
W.J. Cameron
The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung.
Phillips Brooks-1835*
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
Burton Hillis
Happy, happy ”Christmas”, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!
Charles Dickens-1836*
Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.
Larry Wilde
‘Christmas’ is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
Washington Irving
Isn’t it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for – I don’t know what exactly, but it’s something that you don’t mind so much not having at other times.
Kate L. Bosher
For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.
W.J. Ronald Tucker
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
‘Christmas’ is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it.
Richard Lamm
‘Christmas’ is a time to expand our giving encompassing the friendless and needy … near and far. Christmas is sharing.
Patricia Clafford
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
G.K. Chesterton
I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.
Harlan Miller
Sing hey! Sing hey!
For Christmas Day;
Twine mistletoe and holly.
For a friendship glows
In winter snows,
And so let’s all be jolly!
*Christmas Poem*
Mankind is a great, an immense family… This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.
*Pope John XXIII*
Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money.
*Christmas Quotes*
One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don’t clean it up too quickly.
Andy Rooney-1919*
‘Christmas’ is for children. But it is for grown-ups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide-bound hearts.
Lenora Mattingly Weber
I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world.”
Norman Vincent Peale-1898*
There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them.
P.J. O’Rourke
What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.
Agnes M. Pahro
Open your presents at Christmastime but be thankful year round for the gifts you receive.
Lorinda Ruth Lowen
I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become… but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.
May Sarton
Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty-fifth of this month, that the Divinest Heart that ever walked the earth was born on that day; and then smile and enjoy yourselves for the rest of it; for mirth is also of Heaven’s making.
Leigh Hunt
I do like Christmas on the whole…. In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.
E.M. Forster
The Christmas season has come to mean the period when the public plays Santa Claus to the merchants.
John Andrew Holmes
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.
*Christmas Quotes*
The message of Christmas is that the visible material world is bound to the invisible spiritual world.
The Quotes Junction
There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
Erma Bombeck
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
‘Christmas’ gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.
Oren Arnold
‘Christmas’ begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.
P.J. O’Rourke
‘Christmas’ Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart…filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.”
Bess Streeter Aldrich-1881*
Next to a circus there ain’t nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
Kin Hubbard
A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
Garrison Keillor-1942*
‘Christmas’ * that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance – a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.
Augusta E. Rundel
The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others’ burdens, easing other’s loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.
W. C. Jones
People can’t concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the twenty-fifth of December.
Ogden Nash
When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things – not the great occasions – give off the greatest glow of happiness.
Bob Hope
I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.
Charles Dickens
My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that ?
Bob Hope
‘Christmas’ waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
Norman Vincent Peale
It comes every year and will go on forever. And along with Christmas belong the keepsakes and the customs. Those humble, everyday things a mother clings to, and ponders, like Mary in the secret spaces of her heart.
Marjorie Holmes
