Christmas

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

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

27 wisdom & wit from Kin Hubbard

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

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

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

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

2 more quotes from Paul Engle

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

4 thoughts from Thomas Tusser

Christmas is over and Business is Business.

8 more thoughts 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 sayings from Stephen Leacock

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

2 other 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 other quotes from Freya Stark

Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.

9 wisdom & wit from Ethel Merman

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

96 thoughts 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 more quotes from Harry Melling

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

33 quotes from Erma Bombeck

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 more quotes from William Tecumseh Sherman

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

8 other wisdom & wit from Dr. Seuss

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

16 other wisdom & wit 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 other thoughts 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 other wisdom & wit from Norman Vincent Peale

Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.

4 other sayings from John Clayton

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

19 quotes from E. B. White