Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

Christmas

Christmas is over and Business is Business. 8 quotes 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 views from Stephen Leacock

Christmas is the day that holds all time together. 6 other quotes from Alexander Smith

Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart. 2 views from Freya Stark

Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year. 2 views from Victor Borge

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 thoughts from Harry Melling

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

A good conscience is a continual Christmas. 96 wisdom & wit from Benjamin Franklin

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. 33 other wisdom & wit from Erma Bombeck

I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah. 20 other wisdom & wit from William Tecumseh Sherman

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. 26 wisdom & wit from Charles Dickens

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays. 16 thoughts from Henny Youngman

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store. 8 more quotes from Dr. Seuss

Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time! 6 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 sayings from Washington Irving

Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected. 2 quotes from Jimmy Cannon

Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday. 4 wisdom & wit 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 other thoughts from David O. Selznick

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 views from Edna Ferber

Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period. 5 views from Frances Wright

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

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value. 5 more quotes from Charles Dudley Warner

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 more 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 other wisdom & wit from Paul Engle

At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year. 4 quotes from Thomas Tusser