Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk

Christmas

Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time! 6 other quotes from Phyllis McGinley

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays. 16 more views 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 wisdom & wit from Washington Irving

Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday. 4 sayings from John Clayton

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. 11 sayings from Norman Vincent Peale

I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia. 2 wisdom & wit from David O. Selznick

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year. 19 more quotes from E. B. White

Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling. 5 more wisdom & wit from Edna Ferber

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

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

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit. 27 sayings from Kin Hubbard

At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year. 4 quotes 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 quotes 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 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 other quotes from Stephen Leacock

Christmas is the day that holds all time together. 6 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 more views 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 views from Freya Stark

Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year. 2 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 sayings from Ethel Merman

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

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

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

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