Christmas Holiday Greetings Quotes:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Walter Scott

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas; Star and angels gave the sign.

- Christina Rossetti

topic: Christmas, Stars, Angel, Jesus And Christmas, Jesus Christmas

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

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

Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts.

- Joan Winmill Brown

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

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

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

- Oren Arnold

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

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 is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.

- Richard Lamm

topic: Funny, Christmas, Business, Christmas Time, Merry

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.

- Jay Leno

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

At Christmas A man is at his finest towards the finish of the year; He is almost what he should be when the Christmas season's here; Then he's thinking more of others than he's thought the months before, And the laughter of his children is a joy worth toiling for. He is less a selfish creature than at any other time; When the Christmas spirit rules him he comes close to the sublime.

- Edgar Guest

topic: Christmas, Laughter, Children, Christmas Time, Merry Christmas Greetings

I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year.

- Ray Stannard Baker

source: Ray Stannard Baker (1910). “Adventures in Friendship”

topic: Healing, Thinking, Years, Christmas Time, Inspirational Holiday

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

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

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

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

Remember This December, That love weighs more than gold!

- Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

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

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

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

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

- Kin Hubbard

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

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Christmas, Children, Sometimes, Jesus Christmas, Inspirational Holiday

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

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

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

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

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

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