Christmas Holiday Quotes:

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

- Alexander Smith

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

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

- Irving Berlin

topic: Christmas, Dream, White, Glisten, 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

But like of each thing that in season grows.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 1, sc. 1, l. 105

topic: Christmas, Xmas, Mirth, Christmas Tree, Christmas Gift

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

And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.

- Dr. Seuss

source: Dr. Seuss (1995). “Six by Seuss”, Prop Pub Juv

topic: Christmas, Holiday, Mean, Family Holiday, Meaningful Christmas

That's the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.

- Jerry Seinfeld

topic: Funny, Christmas, People, Humorous Christmas, Christmas Card

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

topic: Funny, Christmas, Home, Inspirational Holiday, Christmas Eve

It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Letting Go, Christmas Eve, God Love, Christmas Time, Warm Christmas

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

- Kin Hubbard

topic: Funny, Christmas, Tears, Humorous Christmas, Merry Christmas Inspirational

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

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

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

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

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

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

Best of all, Christmas means a spirit of love, a time when the love of God and the love of our fellow men should prevail over all hatred and bitterness, a time when our thoughts and deeds and the spirit of our lives manifest the presence of God.

- George McDougall

topic: Christmas, Mean, Men, Christmas Time, Meaningful Christmas

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

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

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

My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?

- Bob Hope

topic: Christmas, Holiday, Simple, Loving Others, Joy Of Giving

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

In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it 'Christmas' and went to church; the Jews called it 'Hanukkah' and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say 'Merry Christmas!' or 'Happy Hanukkah!' or (to the atheists) 'Look out for the wall!

- Dave Barry

topic: Christmas, Christian, Atheist, Humorous Christmas, Christmas Eve

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

- Oren Arnold

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

Love the giver more than the gift.

- Brigham Young

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Christ was born in the first century, yet he belongs to all centuries. He was born a Jew, yet He belongs to all races. He was born in Bethlehem, yet He belongs to all countries.

- George W Truett

source: "Who Said That?: More than 2,500 Usable Quotes and Illustrations". Book by George Sweeting, p. 101, 1995.

topic: Christmas, Country, Race, Jesus And Christmas, Jesus Christmas

Have yourself a merry little Christmas, make the Yuletide gay.

- Ralph Blane

topic: Christmas, Gay, Littles, Merry Christmas Greetings, Christmas Holiday

Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first.

- George Matthew Adams

topic: Christmas, Heart, Thinking, Jesus And Christmas, Jesus Christmas

I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.

- Carrie Fisher

topic: Christmas, Christian, Kindness, Merry, Merry Christmas Inspirational

Not a creature was stirring, not even an elf.

- Charlaine Harris

topic: Creatures, St Nicholas, Christmas Day, Christmas Holiday, Dry Leaves

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 Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist.

- Alfred the Great

topic: Christmas, Bells, Answers, Christmas Eve, Christmas Holiday

The magi, as you know, were wise men wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.

- O. Henry

topic: Christmas, Wise, Art, Christmas Card, Christmas Shopping

I lost everything in the post-natal depression.

- Erma Bombeck

source: Erma Bombeck (2011). “I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression”, Fawcett

topic: Christmas, Lost Everything, Natal, Christmas Holiday, Christmas Thoughts

Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!

- Phyllis McGinley

source: Phyllis McGinley (1946). “Stones from a glass house: new poems by Phyllis McGinley”, Viking Press

topic: Christmas, Dimes, Nickels, Christmas Holiday, Petitions

T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

- Clement Clarke Moore

source: 1822 The Night Before Christmas.

topic: Christmas, Night, House, St Nicholas, Stirring

At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 1, sc. 1, l. 105

topic: Christmas, Time, Xmas, Christmas Tree, Winter Christmas

The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting.

- Louisa May Alcott

topic: Christmas, Winter, Sunshine, Winter Christmas, Christmas Day

Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.

- Gladys Taber

source: "Still Cove journal". Book by Gladys Taber, 1981.

topic: Christmas, Mean, Past, Christmas Time, Merry Christmas Inspirational

There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.

- Robert Staughton Lynd

source: "The Book of This and That". Book by Robert Staughton Lynd, 1915.

topic: Christmas, People, Want, Strangling, Charity At Christmas