Winter Christmas Quotes:

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

- Oren Arnold

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

Remember This December, That love weighs more than gold!

- Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

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

Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.

- Charles M. Schulz

topic: Christmas, Funny Christmas, Littles, Gifts Of The Spirit, Family Holiday

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Isn't it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for - I don't know what exactly, but it's something that you don't mind so much not having at other times.

- Kate Langley Bosher

source: Kate Langley Bosher (2005). “How It Happened”, p.15, 1st World Publishing

topic: Christmas, Lonely, Mind, Merry Christmas Greetings, Merry Christmas Wishes

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

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

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

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

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

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

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

- William Blake

topic: Life, Thinking Of You, Nature, Spring Season, Warm Heart