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Christmas Quotes Part 3Use these poignant, classic, funny, and catchy Christmas quotes as part of your holiday crafts, collages, scrapbook pages, and of course as wording for your holiday cards. You may also find our Christmas sayings and greetings page, helpful Even More Christmas Quotes• The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other. ~Burton Hillis• There has been only one Christmas - the rest are anniversaries. ~W.J. Cameron • A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year. ~Walter Scott • I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month. ~Harlan Miller • Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in the Holiday Season, that very special time of year when we join with our loved ones in sharing centuries-old traditions such as trying to find a parking space at the mall. We traditionally do this in my family by driving around the parking lot until we see a shopper emerge from the mall, then we follow her, in very much the same spirit as the Three Wise Men, who 2,000 years ago followed a star, week after week, until it led them to a parking space. ~Dave Barry • Keep your Christmas-heart open all the year round. ~Jessica Archmint 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! • Don't expect too much of Christmas Day. You can't crowd into it any arrears of unselfishness and kindliness that may have accrued during the past twelve months. ~Oren Arnold • To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year. from "The Distant Music of the Hounds," The Second Tree from the Corner, ~E.B. White • Tradition: sit with husband in a room lit only by tree lights and remember that our blessings outnumber the lights. Happy Christmas to all. ~Betsy Cañas Garmon This time of year means being kind to everyone we meet, To share a smile with strangers we may pass along the street. ~ Betty Black in "This Time of Year" • People can't concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the twenty-fifth of December. ~Ogden Nash At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year ~Thomas Tusser • 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 • Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money. ~Author Unknown • Christmas is for children. But it is for grown-ups 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 • There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them. ~P.J. O'Rourke Roses are reddish Violets are bluish If it weren't for Christmas We'd all be Jewish. ~Benny Hill • Open your presents at Christmastime but be thankful year round for the gifts you receive. ~Lorinda Ruth Lowen • I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress. ~May Sarton • Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty-fifth of this month, that the Divinest Heart that ever walked the earth was born on that day; and then smile and enjoy yourselves for the rest of it; for mirth is also of Heaven's making. ~Leigh Hunt • Great little One! whose all-embracing birth Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth. ~Richard Crashaw • 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 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 • Christmas is the season when you buy this year's gifts with next year's money. ~Author Unknown • The Christmas season has come to mean the period when the public plays Santa Claus to the merchants. ~John Andrew Holmes • [I]t is the one season of the year when we can lay aside all gnawing worry, indulge in sentiment without censure, assume the carefree faith of childhood, and just plain "have fun." Whether they call it Yuletide, Noel, Weinachten, or Christmas, people around the earth thirst for its refreshment as the desert traveller for the oasis. ~D.D. Monroe May the spirit of Christmas bring you peace, The gladness of Christmas give you hope, The warmth of Christmas grant you love. ~Author Unknown •If "ifs" and "buts" were candy and nuts, wouldn't it be a Merry Christmas? ~Don Meredith 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 • The message of Christmas is that the visible material world is bound to the invisible spiritual world. ~Author Unknown 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 Is your favorite Christmas quotes not listed on these Christmas quotes pages? Feel free to send us your favorite Christmas quotes to be included! Share the holiday joy with your favorite Christmas quotes, today! |