Christmas
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
5 thoughts from Charles Dudley Warner
Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.
5 other quotes from Frances Wright
Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
27 sayings from Kin Hubbard
At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.
4 quotes from Thomas Tusser
The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.
2 quotes from Paul Engle
If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.
13 wisdom & wit from Mahalia Jackson
Christmas is over and Business is Business.
8 views from Franklin P. Adams
Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
6 quotes from Alexander Smith
Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.
8 other views from Stephen Leacock
Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.
9 sayings from Ethel Merman
Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
2 quotes from Victor Borge
Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
2 quotes from Freya Stark
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
96 more quotes from Benjamin Franklin
I've also just finished filming the role of Robert Brown in 'Just William,' which is due to transmit on BBC One at Christmas.
2 quotes from Harry Melling
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
26 other sayings from Charles Dickens
There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
33 more wisdom & wit from Erma Bombeck
I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
20 wisdom & wit from William Tecumseh Sherman
Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.
8 sayings from Dr. Seuss
I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.
16 quotes from Henny Youngman
Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!
6 other thoughts from Phyllis McGinley
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
18 wisdom & wit from Washington Irving
Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.
2 quotes from Jimmy Cannon
I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia.
2 more quotes from David O. Selznick
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
11 other quotes from Norman Vincent Peale
Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.
4 quotes from John Clayton
To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.
19 other views from E. B. White
Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.
5 views from Edna Ferber