Christmas

At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.

The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.

2 wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Mahalia Jackson

Christmas is over and Business is Business.

8 quotes 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 thoughts 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 other quotes from Ethel Merman

Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.

2 views 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 more quotes from Freya Stark

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

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

96 thoughts from Benjamin Franklin

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

26 thoughts from Charles Dickens

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

33 thoughts from Erma Bombeck

I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.

20 sayings from William Tecumseh Sherman

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.

16 quotes from Henny Youngman

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.

8 other views from Dr. Seuss

Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!

6 more sayings 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 quotes from Washington Irving

Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.

2 views from Jimmy Cannon

I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia.

2 more sayings from David O. Selznick

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

11 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 wisdom & wit from E. B. White

Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.

5 wisdom & wit from Edna Ferber

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

27 other wisdom & wit from Kin Hubbard

Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.

5 quotes from Frances Wright

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

5 other views from Charles Dudley Warner