Christmas Card Greetings Quotes:

Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing...

- Grace Noll Crowell

source: Grace Noll Crowell, “Whatever else”

topic: Shining, Stills, Jesus And Christmas, Jesus Christmas, Childlike Faith

I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.

- E. M. Forster

topic: Christmas, Holiday, Years, Merry Christmas Cards, Winter Christmas

Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.

- Walter Scott

topic: Christmas, Wind, Woods, Memorable Christmas, Merry Christmas Cards

There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them.

- P. J. O'Rourke

source: P. J. O'Rourke (1983). “Modern manners”, Dell Books

topic: Funny, Christmas, Xmas, Humorous Christmas, Neckties

I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.

- May Sarton

source: May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.47, Open Road Media

topic: Christmas, People, Effort, Christmas Card Greetings, Christmas Wishes

Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer... Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?

- Bill Watterson

source: "Calvin and Hobbes". Comic strip by Bill Watterson, November 18, 1985 – December 31, 1995.

topic: Christmas, Xmas, Beer, Humorous Christmas, Merry Xmas Funny

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.

- Bernard Manning

topic: Christmas, Kids, Batteries, Humorous Christmas, Inspirational Holiday

Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.

- Pope John XXIII

topic: Christmas, Heart, Mankind, Family Holiday, Jesus And Christmas

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.

- Phillips Brooks

topic: Christmas, Song, Angel, Meaningful Christmas, Inspirational Holiday

O Christmas Sun! What holy task is thine! To fold a world in the embrace of God!

- Guy Wetmore Carryl

topic: Christmas, Tasks, World, Christmas Card, Christian 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

Oh! lovely voices of the sky Which hymned the Saviour's birth, Are ye not singing still on high, Ye that sang, "Peace on earth"?

- Felicia Hemans

source: Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans (1836). “The Poetical Works of Mrs. Felicia Hemans: Complete in One Volume”, p.282

topic: Christmas, Sky, Voice, Lovely Voice, Christmas Card

Great little One! whose all-embracing birth Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.

- Richard Crashaw

source: Richard Crashaw (1858). “Complete works”, p.40

topic: Christmas, Heaven, Littles, Merry Christmas Cards, Merry Christmas Greeting Card

The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.

- Johnny Carson

topic: Birthday, People, Fruitcake, Humorous Christmas, Funny Christmas

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

- Kin Hubbard

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

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

Whatever else be lost among the years, Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing: Whatever doubts assail us, or what fears, Let us hold close one day, remembering Its poignant meaning for the hearts of men. Let us get back our childlike faith again.

- Grace Noll Crowell

source: Grace Noll Crowell, “Whatever else”

topic: Christmas, Heart, Men, Jesus And Christmas, Jesus Christmas

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

I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Christmas, Sweet, Men, Jesus And Christmas, Jesus Christmas

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

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

Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.

- Victor Borge

topic: Funny, Christmas, Witty, Humorous Christmas, Merry Christmas Cards

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

- Oren Arnold

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

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

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know.

- Irving Berlin

topic: Christmas, Dream, White, Glisten, Inspirational Holiday

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

Remember This December, That love weighs more than gold!

- Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

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

Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.

- Phyllis Diller

topic: Christmas, Xmas, Past, Humorous Christmas, Merry Christmas Cards

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

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.

- Katharine Whitehorn

topic: Christmas, Views, Would Be, Humorous Christmas, Inspirational 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

Roses are reddish Violets are bluish If it weren't for Christmas We'd all be Jewish.

- Benny Hill

topic: Christmas, Rose, Violet, Merry Christmas Cards, Funny Christmas

Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.

- P. J. O'Rourke

source: P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.136, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

topic: Funny, Christmas, Money, Humorous Christmas, Merry Christmas Cards

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

topic: Christmas, Drinking, House, Humorous Christmas, Funny Christmas

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

- Walter Scott

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

Sing hey! Sing hey! For Christmas Day; Twine mistletoe and holly. For a friendship glows In winter snows, And so let's all be jolly! 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: Cheer, Merry Christmas, Winter, Merry Christmas Cards, Merry Christmas Greeting Card

Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends." ~ (1925- ), English political leader.

- Margaret Thatcher

topic: Family, Christmas, Xmas, 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! The very word brings joy to our hearts.

- Joan Winmill Brown

topic: Heart, Joy, Meaningful Christmas, Inspirational Holiday, Merry

Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart...filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.

- Bess Streeter Aldrich

source: Bess Streeter Aldrich (1985). “Journey Into Christmas and Other Stories”, p.207, U of Nebraska Press

topic: Christmas, Song, Heart, Heart Filled, Jesus And Christmas

A little smile, a word of cheer, A bit of love from someone near, A little gift from one held dear, Best wishes for the coming year. These make a merry christmas!

- John Greenleaf Whittier

topic: Christmas, Cheer, Years, Christmas Eve, Merry

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

Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.

- Johnny Carson

topic: Funny, Christmas, Sarcastic, Humorous Christmas, Christmas Time

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

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

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

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

- Erma Bombeck

topic: Christmas, Spiritual, Morning, Humorous Christmas, Christmas Eve

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

What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.

- Phyllis Diller

topic: Christmas, Jobs, Clever, Humorous Christmas, Merry Christmas Cards