Christmas Quotes

Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. (Washington Irving)
At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year. View quote
Thomas Tusser
Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store. View quote
Dr. Seuss
I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come. View quote
Richard Brautigan
There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. View quote
Erma Bombeck
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. View quote
Norman Vincent Peale
It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas. View quote
Ronald Reagan
Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be . . . View quote
Henry James
A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together. View quote
Garrison Keillor
I have often thought, it happens very well that Christmas should fall out in the Middle of Winter. (Joseph Addison)
Call a truce, then to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors And be merry as the custom of our caste For if faint and forced the laughter, and if sadness follow after, We are richer by one mocking Christmas past. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
Christmas is over and Business is Business. View quote
Franklin Pierce Adams
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. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
Christmas is the day that holds all time together. View quote
Alexander Smith
I was a Christmas present that was delivered unwrapped. View quote
Rod Serling
Most murders are committed by someone who is known to the victim. In fact, you are most likely to be murdered by a member of your own family on Christmas day. View quote
Mark Haddon
Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'. View quote
Bing Crosby
The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day. View quote
David Eddings
Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas. (Dale Evans)
Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind. View quote
Mary Ellen Chase
He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. View quote
Roy L. Smith
I make personal appearances around the country. I'm starting a book tour now, and I may be coming to Toronto with the Learning Annex, which I'm doing all through the United States, so that may come up just before Christmas. View quote
Burt Ward
The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy. View quote
Bob Schieffer