Best Holiday Quotes:

Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind; Teach us to be patient and always to be kind.

- Helen Steiner Rice

topic: Christmas, Mind, Be Kind, Humorous Christmas, Jesus And Christmas

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Christmas, Heart, Men, Christmas Time, Carols

It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.

- William Thomas Ellis

topic: Christmas, Heart, Air, Gifts Of The Spirit, Family Holiday

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.

- Peg Bracken

topic: Christmas, Time And Love, Ingredients, Family Holiday, Christmas Time

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

topic: Christmas, Memories, Children, Christmas Time, Meaningful Christmas

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." ~ (1919-), American writer, producer, humorist.

- Andy Rooney

topic: Christmas, World, Rooms, Humorous Christmas, Meaningful Christmas

Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.

- Charles M. Schulz

topic: Christmas, Funny Christmas, Littles, Gifts Of The Spirit, Family Holiday

The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Heart, Holiday, Silence, Inspirational Holiday, Winter Holiday

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

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Inspirational, Family, Happy, Humorous Christmas, Gifts Of The Spirit

As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same.

- Donald E. Westlake

topic: Christmas, Struggle, Aggravation, Inspirational Holiday, Christmas Shopping

Remember This December, That love weighs more than gold!

- Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

topic: Christmas, Gold, December, Christmas Card, Christmas Gift

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

- Norman Vincent Peale

topic: Love, Positive, Christmas, Humorous Christmas, Gifts Of The Spirit

Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance.

- Oren Arnold

topic: Tolerance, Enemy, Opponents, Jesus And Christmas, Jesus Christmas

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Christmas, Gratitude, Children, Christmas Time, Inspirational Holiday

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

topic: Christmas, Real, Mind, Jesus And Christmas, Jesus Christmas

Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.

- Bing Crosby

topic: Christmas, Blessed, Holiday, Humorous Christmas, Meaningful Christmas

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Love, Christmas, Heart, Humorous Christmas, Family Holiday

Christmas is for children. But it is for grownups 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

topic: Christmas, Children, Heart, Family Holiday, Inspirational Holiday

Things must be felt with the heart.

- Helen Keller

topic: Heart, Great Feelings, Physical Beauty, Say I Love You, Long Relationship

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

- Helen Keller

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Funny, Physical Beauty, Long Relationship

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.

- Dale Evans

topic: Love, Marriage, Christmas, Gifts Of The Spirit, Christmas Time

At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.

- Thomas Tusser

source: Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie (1580)

topic: Christmas, Cheer, Holiday, Humorous Christmas, Inspirational Holiday

No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.

- Elbert Hubbard

topic: Work, Men, Vacation, Inspirational Vacation, Need A Vacation

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

- Alexander Smith

topic: Christmas, Holiday, Together, Humorous Christmas, Jesus Christmas

Love the giver more than the gift.

- Brigham Young

topic: Love, Christmas, Meaningful, Inspirational Holiday, Merry Christmas Inspirational

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

- Hamilton Wright Mabie

topic: Christmas, Blessed, World, Humorous Christmas, Gifts Of The Spirit

Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.

- Dave Barry

topic: Christmas, Religious, Holiday, Humorous Christmas, Christmas Time

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

topic: Christmas, Years, One Day, Humorous Christmas, Gifts Of The Spirit

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.

- William Thomas Ellis

topic: Christmas, Blessed, Heart, Gifts Of The Spirit, Family Holiday

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.

- William Carey Jones

topic: Christmas, Heart, Joy, Humorous Christmas, Gifts Of The Spirit

England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. 'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.

- Walter Scott

topic: Christmas, Sports, Cheer, Ale, Inspirational Holiday

May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility.

- Mary Anne Radmacher

topic: Happiness, Christmas, Laughter, Your Wall, Holiday Season

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.

- Kenneth Grahame

source: Kenneth Grahame (2016). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.5, Xist Publishing

topic: Holiday, Vacation, Busy, Wind In The Willows, Best Holiday

To the American People: Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. If we think on these things, there will be born in us a Savior and over us will shine a star sending its gleam of hope to the world." ~ Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), American president. Presidential message (December 25, 1927).

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Jesus And Christmas, Jesus Christmas, Christmas Time, Meaningful Christmas, Christmas Eve

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

- William James

topic: Work, Holiday, Men, Best Vacation, Vacation Time

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 Wilson Lynd

topic: Christmas, Children, Philosophy, Merry Christmas Cards, Children Christmas

Good news from heaven the angels bring, Glad tidings to the earth they sing: To us this day a child is given, To crown us with the joy of heaven.

- Martin Luther

topic: Christmas, Children, Angel, Merry Christmas Cards, Merry Christmas Greeting Card

Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.

- Ruth Carter Stapleton

topic: Christmas, Light, Giving, Christmas Time, Meaningful Christmas

For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.

- William Jewett Tucker

topic: Christmas, Cheer, Home, Family Holiday, Christmas Time

To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.

- Phillip Adams

topic: Travel, Holiday, Discovery, Inspirational Holiday, Reassurance

A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.

- Walter Scott

topic: Christmas, Cheer, Heart, Ale, Inspirational Holiday

I love the Christmas-tide, and yet, I notice this, each year I live; I always like the gifts I get, But how I love the gifts I give!

- Carolyn Wells

topic: Christmas, Years, Giving, Merry, Merry Christmas Cards

Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.

- Kin Hubbard

topic: Christmas, Children, Mean, Humorous Christmas, Merry Christmas Cards

The best holiday I ever had was the first one I went on without my parents, when I was 17.

- Joe Elliott

topic: Holiday, Parent, Firsts, Best Holiday

Molly: You don't like New Years Eve? Are you insane? It's literally the best holiday ever. You just party all night and it doesn't matter what stupid stuff you do because the year's over and you get a brand new start in the morning.

- Hillary DePiano

topic: New Year, Morning, Stupid, Best Holiday

I have never gone on a real trip, never taken a holiday. The best holiday for me is spent in my workshops when nearly everybody else is on vacation.

- Enzo Ferrari

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Real, Taken, Holiday, Best Holiday