Christmas Quotes
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.
Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.
When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness.
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
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.
How many observe Christ`s birthday! How few, his precepts! O! `tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.
I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round [...] as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant 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.
I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday - the longer, the better - from the great boarding school where we are forever working at our arithmetical slates, to take, and give a rest.
Love came down at Christmas,
Love all lovely, Love divine;
Love was born at Christmas;
Star and angels gave the sign.
At Christmas I no more desire a rose,
Than wish a snow in May`s new-fangled shows;
But like of each thing that in season grows.
I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
and wild and sweet
The word repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won`t make it "white".