Christmas is the season when you buy this year's gifts with next year's money. ~Author Unknown
The
Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as
memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one
day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for
commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that
what may be done on any day, will be neglected. ~Samuel Johnson
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
Once
again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each
of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.
~Author Unknown
I heard the bells on Christmas DayTheir old,
familiar carols play,And wild and sweetThe words repeatOf 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
'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet,Could we bestow the gifts
we get,And keep the ones we give away,How happy were our Christmas
day!~Carolyn Wells
Except the Christ be born again tonightIn
dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame,The world will never see his
kingdom bright.~Vachel Lindsay
There's nothing sadder in this
world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ~Erma Bombeck,
I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression
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
I hear that in many places something has
happened to Christmas; that it is changing from a time of merriment and
carefree gaiety to a holiday which is filled with tedium; that many
people dread the day and the obligation to give Christmas presents is a
nightmare to weary, bored souls; that the children of enlightened
parents no longer believe in Santa Claus; that all in all, the effort to
be happy and have pleasure makes many honest hearts grow dark with
despair instead of beaming with good will and cheerfulness. ~Julia
Peterkin, A Plantation Christmas, 1934
The earth has grown old with its burden of care,But at Christmas it always is young.~Phillips Brooks
Let
Christmas not become a thingMerely of merchant's trafficking,Of tinsel,
bell and holly wreathAnd surface pleasure, but beneathThe childish
glamour, let us findNourishment for soul and mind.Let us follow kinder
waysThrough our teeming human maze,And help the age of peace to comeFrom
a Dreamer's martyrdom.~Madeline Morse
Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas. ~Kin Hubbard
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, Modern Manners
