Great Holiday Quotes:

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

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

- Oren Arnold

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

- Phillip Adams

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

Things must be felt with the heart.

- Helen Keller

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

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

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

I have had a holiday, and I'd like to take it up professionally.

- Kylie Minogue

topic: Travel, Funny Christmas, Holiday, Funny Holiday, Great Holiday

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.

- Fred Rogers

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

topic: Children, Holiday, Suspense, Climax, Holiday Season

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

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

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

A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.

- Earl Wilson

topic: Holiday, Vacation, Inspirational Vacation, Best Vacation, Vacation Time

Love the giver more than the gift.

- Brigham Young

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

Every piece of the universe, even the tiniest little snow crystal, matters somehow. I have a place in the pattern, and so do you. Thinking of you this holiday season!

- T.A. Barron

topic: Thinking Of You, Holiday, Snow, Inspirational Holiday, Holiday Season

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

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

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Work, Holiday, Definitions, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Holiday

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.

- Henny Youngman

topic: Atheist, Holiday, Atheism, Merry Christmas Wishes, Winter 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