Great Christmas Quotes:

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

- Victor Borge

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

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

- Shirley Temple

source: Quoted in Leslie Halliwell, Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion (1984)

topic: Funny, Christmas, Mother, Humorous Christmas, Inspirational Holiday

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day.

- Helen Steiner Rice

topic: Christmas, Funny Christmas, Earth, Humorous Christmas, Jesus Christmas

One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Family, Christmas, Book, Merry, Merry Christmas Cards

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

the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you

- John Greenleaf Whittier

source: John Greenleaf Whittier, “Somehow not only for Christmas”

topic: Famous Inspirational, Giving, Joy, Christmas Eve, Charity At Christmas

Not a creature was stirring, not even an elf.

- Charlaine Harris

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

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

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

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 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

Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.

- Charles M. Schulz

topic: Christmas, Funny Christmas, Littles, Gifts Of The Spirit, Family 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 main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.

- George Carlin

topic: Christmas, Girl, Cheesy, Memorable Christmas, Merry Christmas Greeting Card

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

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

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

- Garrison Keillor

topic: Love, Funny, Christmas, Humorous Christmas, Meaningful Christmas

I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world.

- Norman Vincent Peale

topic: Christmas, Song, Believe, Christmas Eve, 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

Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Christmas, Heart, Hands, Heart To Heart, Great Christmas

Christmas is not in tinsel and lights and outward show. The secret lies in an inner glow. It's lighting a fire inside the heart. Good will and joy a vital part. It's higher thought and a greater plan. It's glorious dream in the soul of man.

- Wilferd Peterson

topic: Christmas, Dream, Lying, Meaningful Christmas, Merry Christmas Inspirational

This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, our great redemption from above did bring.

- John Milton

source: 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity' (1645) st. 1

topic: Christmas, Mother, Kings, Christmas Thoughts, Advent Christmas

Always winter but never Christmas.

- C. S. Lewis

source: C.S Lewis, Adrian Mitchell (2012). “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”, p.45, Oberon Books

topic: Christmas, Winter, Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe, Lion Witch Wardrobe, Winter Christmas

Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.

- B. C. Forbes

topic: Moving, Thinking, Giving, Christmas Giving, Great Christmas

We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice.

- Pope Paul VI

topic: Christmas, Faith, Inspiration, Great Christmas

Fragrance is a very personal gift, and I think that's why it makes a great Christmas gift. There's a very distinct signature to it, so if you give it as a gift, I like to think that it's from a person that thinks very highly of you.

- Ryan Reynolds

topic: Thinking, Giving, Signatures, Great Christmas

The title of that great Christmas song was 'Boogie Woogie Santa Claus,' and no one ever heard of it.

- Patti Page

source: "Patti Page, singer of Tennessee Waltz, dies at 85", www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2013.

topic: Song, Santa, Titles, Boogie, Christmas Song