Christmas Quotes
- Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
Norman Vincent Peale
- Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
Hamilton Wright Mabi
- 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
- Remember, this December, that love weighs more than gold.
Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon
- 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
- Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no child-like faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies!
Francis P. Church
- From the New York Sun, September 21, 1897.If there is no joyous way to give a festive gift, give love away.
Author Unknown
- Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first. The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world of the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years… Underneath all the bulging bundles is this beating Christmas heart.
George Mathhew Adams
From Home to home, and heart to heart, from one place to another.
The warmth and joy of Christmas, brings us closer to each other.
Emily Matthews
Somehow, not only for Christmas,
But all the long year through,
The joy that you give to others,
Is the joy that comes back to you.
And the more you spend in blessing,
The poor and lonely and sad,
The more of your heart’s possessing,
Returns to you glad.
John Greenleaf Whittier- It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.
W. T. Ellis
- The merry family gatherings -
The old, the very young;
The strangely lovely way they
Harmonize in carols sung.
For Christmas is tradition time -
Traditions that recall
The precious memories down the years,
The sameness of them all.
Helen Lowrie Marshall
- The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
Burton Hillis
- Love came down at Christ
Love all lovely, love divine;
Love was born at Christmas,
Stars and angels gave the sign.
Christina Rossett
Christmas … is not an eternal event at all, but a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart.
Freya Stark
I heard the bells on Christmas Day.
Their old familiar carols play.
And wild and sweet the words repeat.
Of peace on earth goodwill to men.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Christmas is a time when people of all religions come together to worship Jesus Christ.
Bart Simpson
- 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 is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
Washington Irving
- Christmas reminds us we are not alone. We are not unrelated atoms, bouncing and ricocheting amid aliens, but are a part of something, which holds and sustains us. As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December’s bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same. Christmas shows us the ties that bind us together, threads of love and caring, woven in the simplest and strongest way within the family.
Donald E. Westlake
- Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents.
Louisa May Alcott
Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
Mary Ellen Chase
- Do they still make wooden Christmas Trees?
Charles Schulz
- Linus Van Pelt in Peanuts.
Forget about the crackers,
And forget about the candy;
I’m sure a box of chocolates
Would never come in handy;
I don’t like oranges,
I don’t want nuts,
And I HAVE got a pocket-knife
That almost cuts.
But, oh! Father Christmas, if you love me at all,
Bring me a big, red India-rubber ball!
A. A. Milne
- King John’s Christmas.
He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
Roy L. Smith
Heap on the wood! – the wind is chill;
But let it whistle as it will,
We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
Sir Walter Scott
And is it true? and is it true?
This most tremendous tale of all,
Seen in a stained-glass window’s hue,
A Baby in an ox’s stall?
The Maker of the stars and sea
Become a Child on earth for me?
And is it true? For if it is,
No loving fingers tying strings
Around those tissued fripperies,
The sweet and silly Christmas things,
Bath salts and inexpensive scent
And hideous tie so kindly meant.
No love that in a family dwells,
No carolling in frosty air,
Nor all the steeple-shaking bells
Can with this single Truth compare -
That God was man in Palestine
And lives today in Bread and Wine.
John Betjeman- And in our world of plenty
We can spread a smile of joy
Throw your arms around the world
At Christmastime.
Bob Geldof and Midge Ure
- Do They Know It’s Christmas?
And So This Is Christmas;
And What Have We Done?
Another Year Over; A New One Just Begun;
And So Happy Christmas;
I Hope You Have Fun;
The Near And The Dear Ones;
The Old And The Young.
John Lennon
- Happy Christmas (War is Over).
At Christmas play, and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year.
Thomas Tusser
- The Farmer’s Daily Diet, 1557.
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
Burton Hillis
- Feed the world
Let them know it’s Christmastime again.
Bob Geldof and Midge Ure
- Do They Know It’s Christmas?
I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.
Harlan Miller
- If TV has taught me anything, it’s that miracles always happen to poor kids at Christmas. It happened to Tiny Tim, it happened to Charlie Brown, it happened to the Smurfs, and it’s going to happen to us.
Bart Simpson
- It is every little girl’s dream to be
The fairy on a Christmas tree.
A wand in her hand,
A smile on her face.
And a tree in a most peculiar place.
Spike Milligan
Let me see if I’ve got this Santa business straight. You say he wears a beard which hides his face, has no discernible source of income, and flies to cities all over the world under cover of darkness? You sure this guy isn’t laundering illegal drug money?
Tom Armstrong
- From Marvin.
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white man would be coming into my neighborhood after dark.
Dick Gregory
- O come all ye faithful, Joyful and triumphant,
O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem.
Frederick Oakeley
O little town of Bethlehem,
How still we see thee lie;
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
The silent stars go by.
Phillips Brooks
- Of all dear days is Christmas Day the dearest and the best.
Margaret E. Sangster
Santa Claus has the right idea – visit people only once a year.
Victor Borge
- The price of Christmas toys is outrageous — a hundred dollars, two hundred dollars for video games for the youngsters. I remember a Christmas years ago when my son was a kid. I bought him a tank. It was about a hundred dollars, a lot of money in those days. It was the kind of tank you could actually get inside and ride in.
He played in the box it came in.
It taught me a very valuable lesson. Next year he got a box. And I got a hundred dollars’ worth of scotch.
Johnny Carson
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
- There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus.
Bob Phillips
- ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.
Clement C. Moore
- Until one feels the spirit of it, there is no Christmas. All else is outward display, so much tinsel and decorations. For it isn’t the holly, the snow, the tree, not the firelight’s glow. It’s the warmth that comes to the hearts of men when it returns again.
Author Unknown
- We wish you a Merry Christmas;
We wish you a Merry Christmas;
We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Good tidings we bring to you and your kin;
Good tidings for Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Oh, bring us a figgy pudding;
Oh, bring us a figgy pudding;
Oh, bring us a figgy pudding and a cup of good cheer
English 16th century Christmas carol
- Calvin: Well. I’ve decided I do believe in Santa Claus, no matter how preposterous he sounds.
Hobbes: What convinced you?
Calvin: A simple risk analysis. I want presents. Lots of presents. Why risk not getting them over a matter of belief? Heck, I’ll believe anything they want.
Hobbes: How cynically enterprising of you.
Calvin: It’s the spirit of Christmas.
Calvin and Hobbes strip by Bill Watterson
What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
Phyllis Diller
- What’s Santa’s Little Helper doing to that dog? Looks like he’s trying to jump over, but he can’t quite make it.
Bart Simpson