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

Christmas

Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected. 2 views 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 other wisdom & wit from Washington Irving

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

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. 11 more thoughts 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 quotes 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 views from Charles Dudley Warner

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

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

At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year. 4 sayings 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 thoughts 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 more sayings 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 more sayings 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 other quotes from Freya Stark

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

A good conscience is a continual Christmas. 96 other sayings from Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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

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 views from Dr. Seuss

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