Christmas Quotes
“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
“Christmas is the one time of year when people of all religions come together to worship Jesus Christ.” Bart Simpson
“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
“Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exists, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy.” Charles Dana
“Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!” Charles Dickens
“Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.” Dale Evans
“I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white man would be coming into my neighbourhood after dark.” Dick Gregory
“There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.” Erma Bombeck
“A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.” Garrison Keillor
“Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.” George Bernard Shaw
“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.” Hamilton Wright Mabie
“I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.” Harlan Miller
“Remember this December, that love weighs more than gold!” Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon
“Isn’t it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for - I don’t know what exactly, but it’s something that you don’t mind so much not having at other times.” Kate L. Bosher
“From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.” Kin Hubbard
“Next to a circus there ain’t nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.” Kin Hubbard
“Christmas is for children. But it is for grown-ups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide-bound hearts.” Lenora Mattingly Weber
“Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.” Ralph Sockman
“I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.” Shirley Temple
“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
“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
“Christmas! ‘Tis the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial fire of charity in the heart.” Washington Irving