Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. ~Norman Vincent PealeChristmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home. ~Carol NelsonHe who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. ~Roy L. SmithI 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 DickensChristmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year - and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority. ~W.J. CameronThe best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other. ~Burton HillisOne 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 RooneyHappy, 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, The Pickwick Papers, 1836There has been only one Christmas - the rest are anniversaries. ~W.J. Cameron'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale;'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale;A Christmas gambol oft could cheerThe poor man's heart through half the year.~Walter ScottChristmas 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 SevareidOur 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 WilderMay Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through! ~Author UnknownI will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. ~Charles DickensNever worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall. ~Larry Wilde, The Merry Book of ChristmasChristmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. ~Washington IrvingGifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas. ~Peg BrackenIsn'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. BosherAt Christmas, all roads lead home. ~Marjorie HolmesInstead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself. ~Francis C. FarleyIt is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air. ~W.T. EllisFor centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home. ~W.J. Ronald TuckerEven as an adult I find it difficult to sleep on Christmas Eve. Yuletide excitement is a potent caffeine, no matter your age. ~Carrie LatetChristmas 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 LammBlessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love! ~Hamilton Wright MabieLove is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen. ~Author unknown, attributed to a 7-year-old named BobbyChristmas is forever, not for just one day,for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put awaylike bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.The good you do for others is good you do yourself...~Norman Wesley Brooks, "Let Every Day Be Christmas," 1976When 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. ChestertonChristmas is the day that holds all time together. ~Alexander SmithI wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month. ~Harlan MillerFrom a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it. ~Katharine WhitehornIn the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it 'Christmas' and went to church; the Jews called it 'Hanukkah' and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say 'Merry Christmas!' or 'Happy Hanukkah!' or (to the atheists) 'Look out for the wall!' ~Dave Barry, "Christmas Shopping: A Survivor's Guide"RememberThis December,That love weighs more than gold!~Josephine Dodge Daskam BaconI sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays - let them overtake me unexpectedly - waking up some find morning and suddenly saying to myself: "Why, this is Christmas Day!" ~David GraysonA Christmas candle is a lovely thing;It makes no noise at all,But softly gives itself away.~Eva LogueChristmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts. ~Janice MaediterePerhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles. ~Author UnknownOh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer.... Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously? ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & HobbesOnly in souls the Christ is brought to birth,And there He lives and dies.~Alfred NoyesFor the spirit of Christmas fulfils the greatest hunger of mankind. ~Loring A. SchulerThis is the message of Christmas: We are never alone. ~Taylor CaldwellTradition: sit with husband in a room lit only by tree lights and remember that our blessings outnumber the lights. Happy Christmas to all. ~Betsy Cañas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.comAt Christmas play and make good cheer,For Christmas comes but once a year~Thomas TusserChristmas 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 WeberSing hey! Sing hey!For Christmas Day;Twine mistletoe and holly.For a friendship glowsIn winter snows,And so let's all be jolly!~Author UnknownTo perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year. ~E.B. White, "The Distant Music of the Hounds," The Second Tree from the Corner, 1954Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money. ~Author UnknownI 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 SartonIt is the Christmas time:And up and down 'twixt heaven and earth,In glorious grief and solemn mirth,The shining angels climb.~Dinah Maria MulockFail 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 HuntThe perfect Christmas tree? All Christmas trees are perfect! ~Charles N. BarnardGreat little One! whose all-embracing birthLifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.~Richard CrashawI do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year. ~E.M. ForsterAt ChristmasA man is at his finest towards the finish of the year;He is almost what he should be when the Christmas season's here;Then he's thinking more of others than he's thought the months before,And the laughter of his children is a joy worth toiling for.He is less a selfish creature than at any other time;When the Christmas spirit rules him he comes close to the sublime...~Edgar GuestChristmas is the season when you buy this year's gifts with next year's money. ~Author UnknownThe Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected. ~Samuel JohnsonAs long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is. ~Eric SevareidWhen 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]t is the one season of the year when we can lay aside all gnawing worry, indulge in sentiment without censure, assume the carefree faith of childhood, and just plain "have fun." Whether they call it Yuletide, Noel, Weinachten, or Christmas, people around the earth thirst for its refreshment as the desert traveller for the oasis. ~D.D. MonroeRoses are reddishViolets are bluishIf it weren't for ChristmasWe'd all be Jewish.~Benny HillMay the spirit of Christmas bring you peace,The gladness of Christmas give you hope,The warmth of Christmas grant you love.~Author UnknownChristmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given - when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes. ~Joan Winmill BrownMay you have the gladness of Christmas which is hope;The spirit of Christmas which is peace;The heart of Christmas which is love.~Ada V. HendricksThe best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature. ~Andy RooneyWhat 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. PahroBe merry all, be merry all,With holly dress the festive hall;Prepare the song, the feast, the ball,To welcome merry Christmas.~William Robert SpencerThe Christmas season has come to mean the period when the public plays Santa Claus to the merchants. ~John Andrew HolmesIf "ifs" and "buts" were candy and nuts, wouldn't it be a Merry Christmas? ~Don MeredithOnce 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. ~Author UnknownI heard the bells on Christmas DayTheir old, familiar carols play,And wild and sweetThe words repeatOf peace on earth, good-will to men!~Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe message of Christmas is that the visible material world is bound to the invisible spiritual world. ~Author UnknownWere I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive. ~Robert LyndMankind is a great, an immense family. This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas. ~Pope John XXIIII love the Christmas-tide, and yet,I notice this, each year I live;I always like the gifts I get,But how I love the gifts I give!~Carolyn Wells'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet,Could we bestow the gifts we get,And keep the ones we give away,How happy were our Christmas day!~Carolyn WellsThere are no strangers on Christmas Eve. ~Mildred Cram and Adele ComandiniThere 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'RourkeChristmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. ~Calvin Coolidge, 1927No matter how carefully you stored the lights last year, they will be snarled again this Christmas. ~Robert KirbyExcept the Christ be born again tonightIn dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame,The world will never see his kingdom bright.~Vachel LindsayLike snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance - each beautiful, unique and too soon gone. ~Deborah WhippWhen Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow, we hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago, and etched on vacant places are half-forgotten faces of friends we used to cherish, and loves we used to know. ~Ella Wheeler WilcoxI have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that - as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time. ~Charles DickensAt Christmas-tide the open handScatters its bounty o'er sea and land,And none are left to grieve alone,For Love is heaven and claims its own.~Margaret Elizabeth SangsterThere's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ~Erma Bombeck, I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal DepressionThe one thing women don't want to find in their stockings on Christmas morning is their husband. ~Joan RiversThe 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 LenoI hear that in many places something has happened to Christmas; that it is changing from a time of merriment and carefree gaiety to a holiday which is filled with tedium; that many people dread the day and the obligation to give Christmas presents is a nightmare to weary, bored souls; that the children of enlightened parents no longer believe in Santa Claus; that all in all, the effort to be happy and have pleasure makes many honest hearts grow dark with despair instead of beaming with good will and cheerfulness. ~Julia Peterkin, A Plantation Christmas, 1934The earth has grown old with its burden of care,But at Christmas it always is young....~Phillips BrooksNothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas. ~Kin HubbardThe worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other. ~Johnny CarsonLet Christmas not become a thingMerely of merchant's trafficking,Of tinsel, bell and holly wreathAnd surface pleasure, but beneathThe childish glamour, let us findNourishment for soul and mind.Let us follow kinder waysThrough our teeming human maze,And help the age of peace to comeFrom a Dreamer's martyrdom.~Madeline MorseHave yourself a merry little Christmas, make the Yuletide gay. ~Ralph BlaneIt is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when its mighty Founder was a child Himself. ~Charles DickensThree phrases that sum up Christmas are: Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men, and Batteries not Included. ~Author UnknownI once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included. ~Bernard ManningChristmas 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, Modern MannersNext to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit. ~Kin HubbardOnce again we find ourselves enmeshed in the Holiday Season, that very special time of year when we join with our loved ones in sharing centuries-old traditions such as trying to find a parking space at the mall. We traditionally do this in my family by driving around the parking lot until we see a shopper emerge from the mall, then we follow her, in very much the same spirit as the Three Wise Men, who 2,000 years ago followed a star, week after week, until it led them to a parking space. ~Dave BarryKeep your Christmas-heart open all the year round. ~Jessica ArchmintWouldn't life be worth the livingWouldn't dreams be coming trueIf we kept the Christmas spiritAll the whole year through?~Author UnknownThe universal joy of Christmas is certainly wonderful. We ring the bells when princes are born, or toll a mournful dirge when great men pass away. Nations have their red-letter days, their carnivals and festivals, but once in the year and only once, the whole world stands still to celebrate the advent of a life. ~Author UnknownWe ring the bells and we raise the strainWe hang up garlands everywhereAnd bid the tapers twinkle fair,And feast and frolic - and then we goBack to the same old lives again.~Susan CoolidgeI never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark. ~Dick GregoryChristmas is a time to open our hearts to God and his gifts. Just like the rest of the year. ~Author UnknownI'm dreaming of a white Christmas,Just like the ones I used to know,Where the tree tops glistenAnd children listenTo hear sleigh bells in the snow...~Irving BerlinChristmas 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 AldrichMail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas. ~Johnny CarsonWhatever else be lost among the years,Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing;Whatever doubts assail us, or what fears,Let us hold close one day, rememberingIts poignant meaning for the hearts of men.Let us get back our childlike faith again.~Grace Noll CrowellAnd the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more. ~Dr SeussO Christmas Sun! What holy task is thine!To fold a world in the embrace of God!~Guy Wetmore CarrylChristmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends. ~Margaret ThatcherLove came down at Christmas,Love all lovely, Love Divine;Love was born at Christmas;Star and angels gave the sign.~Christina RossettiChristmas - 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. RundelSanta is very jolly because he knows where all the bad girls live. ~Dennis MillerIt is the most human and kindly of seasons, as fully penetrated and irradiated with the feeling of human brotherhood, which is the essential spirit of Christianity, as the month of June with sunshine and the balmy breath of roses. ~George William Curtis'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the houseNot 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 Clarke MoorePeople 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 NashChristmas 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 ArnoldChristmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love. ~Lucinda FranksOh! lovely voices of the skyWhich hymned the Saviour's birth,Are ye not singing still on high,Ye that sang, "Peace on earth"?~Felicia HemansWe hear the beating of wings over Bethlehem and a light that is not of the sun or of the stars shines in the midnight sky. Let the beauty of the story take away all narrowness, all thought of formal creeds. Let it be remembered as a story that has happened again and again, to men of many different races, that has been expressed through many religions, that has been called by many different names. Time and space and language lay no limitations upon human brotherhood. ~New York Times, 25 December 1937, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren, 1938, published by The H.W. Wilson Company, New YorkWhich Christmas is the most vivid to me? It's always the next Christmas. ~Joanne Woodward Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.Norman Vincent PealeBlessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.Hamilton Wright MabiChristmas - 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. RundelRemember, this December, that love weighs more than gold.Josephine Dodge Daskam BaconChristmas 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 ArnoldYes, 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. ChurchFrom the New York Sun, September 21, 1897.If there is no joyous way to give a festive gift, give love away.Author UnknownLet 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 AdamsFrom 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 MatthewsSomehow, 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 WhittierIt is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.W. T. EllisThe merry family gatherings -The old, the very young;The strangely lovely way theyHarmonize in carols sung.For Christmas is tradition time -Traditions that recallThe precious memories down the years,The sameness of them all.Helen Lowrie MarshallThe best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.Burton HillisLove came down at ChristLove all lovely, love divine;Love was born at Christmas,Stars and angels gave the sign.Christina RossettiChristmas ... is not an eternal event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.Freya StarkI 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 LongfellowChristmas is a time when people of all religions come together to worship Jesus Christ.Bart SimpsonChristmas 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 CoolidgeChristmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.Washington IrvingChristmas 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. WestlakeChristmas won't be Christmas without any presents.Louisa May AlcottChristmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.Mary Ellen ChaseDo they still make wooden Christmas Trees?Charles SchulzLinus Van Pelt in Peanuts.Forget about the crackers,And forget about the candy;I'm sure a box of chocolatesWould never come in handy;I don't like oranges,I don't want nuts,And I HAVE got a pocket-knifeThat almost cuts.But, oh! Father Christmas, if you love me at all,Bring me a big, red india-rubber ball!A. A. MilneKing John's Christmas.He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.Roy L. SmithHeap on the wood! - the wind is chill;But let it whistle as it will,We'll keep our Christmas merry still.Sir Walter ScottAnd 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 seaBecome a Child on earth for me?And is it true? For if it is,No loving fingers tying stringsAround those tissued fripperies,The sweet and silly Christmas things,Bath salts and inexpensive scentAnd hideous tie so kindly meant.No love that in a family dwells,No carolling in frosty air,Nor all the steeple-shaking bellsCan with this single Truth compare -That God was man in PalestineAnd lives today in Bread and Wine.John BetjemanAnd in our world of plentyWe can spread a smile of joyThrow your arms around the worldAt Christmastime.Bob Geldof and Midge UreDo 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 LennonHappy Christmas (War is Over).At Christmas play, and make good cheer,For Christmas comes but once a year.Thomas TusserThe Farmer's Daily Diet, 1557 "It's better to like beautiful girls than to be gay" -- Silvio Berlusconi, Italian Prime Minister, speaking about his latest scandal, in which a teenage girl told of the "bunga bunga" orgies she witnessed at his home when she was 17."I feel sorry for straight men. The only reason women will have sex with them is that sex is the price they are willing to pay for a relationship with a man, which is what they want." -- Stephen Fry, actor, claims straight women don't really like sex."I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do." -- George W. Bush, writing in his new memoir, Decision Point, that he still feels bad no weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq.Keywords:Christmas,Christmas quotes,Christmas sms,Christmas 2010,Christmas messages
