Christmas Quotes

"Christmas, my child, is love in action...
Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas."
~Dale Evans Rogers~

"Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind;
teach us to be patient and always to be kind."
~Helen Steiner Rice~

"Have you any old grudges you would like to pay,
Any wrongs laid up from a bygone day?
Gather them now and lay them away
When Christmas comes.
Hard thoughts are heavy to carry, my friend,
And life is short from beginning to end;
Be kind to yourself, leave nothing to mend
When Christmas comes."
~William Lytle~

"The Christmas spirit - love - changes hearts and lives."
~Pat Boone's Christmas quote~

"Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas
if you stop opening presents and listen."
~Author unknown~

"Christmas is forever, not for just one day,
for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away
like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.
The good you do for others is good you do yourself..."
~Norman Wesley Brooks~ "Let Every Day Be Christmas" 1976

"This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone."
~Taylor Caldwell~

"It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air."
~W.T. Ellis~

"Gifts of time and love are surely the basic
ingredients of a truly merry Christmas."
~Peg Bracken~

"Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river
of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating
happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday."
~Gladys Tabor's Christmas quote~

"When we recall Christmas past, we usually find
that the simplest things - not the great occasions -
give off the greatest glow of happiness."
~Bob Hope~

"Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree.
In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall."
~Larry Wilde~

"Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our
blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'."
~Bing Crosby's Christmas quote~

"Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys,
showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously,
and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the
few occasions on which men become entirely alive."
~Robert Lynd~

"The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree:
the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other."
~Burton Hillis~

"My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern,
is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it,
why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?"
~Bob Hope~

"Christmas waves a magic wand over this world,
and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful."
~Norman Vincent Peale's Christmas quote~

"Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves."
~Eric Sevareid~

"Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone."
~Charles Schulz~

"One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created
in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly."
~Andy Rooney's Christmas quote~

"Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home."
~Carol Nelson~

"He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree."
~Roy L. Smith~

"There is no ideal Christmas; only the one
Christmas you decide to make as a reflection
of your values, desires, affections, traditions."
~Bill McKibben~

"Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind."
~Mary Ellen Chase~

"What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage
for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish
that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal,
and that every path may lead to peace."
~Agnes M. Pharo~

"And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow,
stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so?
It came without ribbons. It came without tags.
It came without packages, boxes or bags.
And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore.
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before.
What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store.
What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more."
~Dr. Seuss~

"The only blind person at Christmas time
is he who has not Christmas in his heart."
~Helen Keller's Christmas quote~

"Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence."
~Joan Mills~

"Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time
with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts
is that we don't quite know how to put our love into words."
~Harlan Miller~

"Christmas waves a magic wand over this world,
and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful."
~Norman Vincent Peale~

"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."
~Calvin Coolidge~

"Christmas day is a day of joy and charity.
May God make you very rich in both."
~Phillips Brooks~

"Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas."
~Dale Evans~

"The Christmas season has come to mean the period
when the public plays Santa Claus to the merchants."
~John Andrew Holmes~

"Blessed is the season which engages the
whole world in a conspiracy of love."
~Hamilton Wright Mabie

"Open your presents at Christmastime but be
thankful year round for the gifts you receive."
~Lorinda Ruth Lowen~

"Peace on earth will come to stay,
When we live Christmas every day."
~Helen Steiner Rice~

"Keep your Christmas-heart open all the year round."
~Jessica Archmint~

"Christmas gift suggestions:
To your enemy, forgiveness.
To an opponent, tolerance.
To a friend, your heart.
To a customer, service.
To all, charity.
To every child, a good example.
To yourself, respect."
~Oren Arnold~

"Christmas is not as much about opening
our presents as opening our hearts."
~Janice Maeditere~

"A Christmas candle is a lovely thing;
It makes no noise at all,
But softly gives itself away."
~Eva Logue's Christmas quote~

"The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others' burdens,
easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives
with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas."
~W. C. Jones~

Humorous Christmas Quotes

"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother
took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph."
~Shirley Temple~

"What do you call people who are afraid of Santa Claus?
Claustrophobic."
~author Unknown~

"Christmas at my house is always at least six or
seven times more pleasant than anywhere else. We
start drinking early. And while everyone else is
seeing only one Santa Claus, we'll be seeing six or seven."
~W. C. Fields' humorous Christmas quote

"Christmas is the season when you buy this
year's gifts with next year's money."
~Author Unknown~

"Even before Christmas has said Hello, it's saying 'Buy Buy'"
~Robert Paul~

"Santa is very jolly because he knows where all the bad girls live."
~Dennis Miller's humorous Christmas quote~

"Hey Santa, how much for your list of naughty girls?"
~Anonymous~

"I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas
with a note on it saying, toys not included."
~Bernard Manning~

"I was Christmas shopping and ran into a guy on the street.
I noticed his watch and said that it runs slow.
He said, "So does the guy I stole it from."
~David Letterman~

"Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten
and his present remembered. What I don't like about office
Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day."
~Phyllis Diller's humorous Christmas quote~