Christmas
Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!
6 sayings from Phyllis McGinley
I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.
16 wisdom & wit from Henny Youngman
Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.
8 quotes from Dr. Seuss
Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.
2 more quotes from Jimmy Cannon
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 the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.
4 thoughts from John Clayton
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
11 quotes from Norman Vincent Peale
I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia.
2 sayings from David O. Selznick
To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.
19 more wisdom & wit from E. B. White
Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.
5 quotes from Edna Ferber
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
5 sayings from Charles Dudley Warner
Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.
5 more quotes from Frances Wright
Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
27 quotes from Kin Hubbard
At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.
4 views 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 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 other quotes from Mahalia Jackson
Christmas is over and Business is Business.
8 wisdom & wit from Franklin P. Adams
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 wisdom & wit from Stephen Leacock
Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
6 other quotes from Alexander Smith
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
Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
2 wisdom & wit from Freya Stark
Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
2 other views from Victor Borge
Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.
9 quotes from Ethel Merman
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
26 quotes from Charles Dickens
I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
20 quotes from William Tecumseh Sherman
There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
33 sayings from Erma Bombeck