- "Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect."
-- Oren Arnold - "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 - "Call no man a foe, but never love a stranger."
-- Stella Benson - "Where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door the dark night wakes - the glory breaks, Christmas comes once more."
-- Phillips Brooks - "Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given--when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes."
-- Joan Winmill Brown - "Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through."
-- Angela Carter - "Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind."
-- Mary Ellen Chase - "When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?"
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton - "Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy."
-- Alistair Cooke - "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 (1872-1933) 30th US President, Republican - "Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree."
-- T.S. Eliot - "God grant you the light in Christmas, which is faith, the warmth of Christmas, which is love; the radiance of Christmas, which is purity."
-- Wilda English - "Christmas night, stars shine bright, and all the angels are singing. 'The Son of God is Born!' Little child, holy child, how I want to be near you, this blessed Christmas night."
-- Garry Gamble - "Keeping Christmas is good, but sharing it is better."
-- Arnold Glasow - "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. And thus I drift along into the holidays--let them overtake me unexpectedly--waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself: "Why this is Christmas Day!"
-- David Grayson (1890-1990) - "When you get to be a certain age, you come to realize that the real Santa Claus is not the guy who comes down the chimney on Christmas Eve. The real spirit of Santa becomes what you can give rather than what you get. The magic comes from you when Santa lives in your heart."
-- Patty Hansen - "There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed—the four-poster—I'll be needing that to die in."
-- Helen Hayes - "Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal."
-- Lenore Hershey - "Christmas is the family time, the good time of the year."
-- Samuel Johnson - "Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart."
-- Washington Irving - "Let this Christmas season be a renewing of the mind and a cleansing of our lives by God's pure presence. Let His joy come to our weary world through us."
-- Gerald Kennedy - "A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together."
-- Garrison Keillor - "Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if ''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past."
-- Joseph Rudyard Kipling - "Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life."
-- Karl Kraus - "Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want—and their kids pay for it."
-- Richard Lamm - "Just a hurried line...to tell a story which puts the contrast between *our* feast of the Nativity and all this ghastly Xmas racket at it's lowest. My brother heard a woman on a 'bus say, as the 'bus passed a church with a Crib outside it, Oh Lor'! They bring religion into everything. Look- they're dragging it even into Christmas now!"
-- Clive Staples Lewis - "I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men."
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - "There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas."
-- Robert Lynd - "I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included."
-- Bernard Manning - "Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful."
-- Norman Vincent Peale - "I am wishing for you this day a happy Christmas. I wish you all laughter; and pure joy, a merry heart and a clear conscience, and love."
-- Bishop Remington - "Love came down at Christmas; Love all lovely, love divine; Love was born at Christmas, Stars and angels gave the sign."
-- Christina Georgina Rossetti - "Christmas--that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance--a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved."
-- Augusta E. Rundell - "If, Ifs and buts were candies and nuts, we'd all have a merry Christmas."
-- Unknown - "Somehow not only for Christmas But all the long year through, The joy that you give to others Is the joy that comes back to you."
-- Elwyn Brooks White - "To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year."
-- E B White - "From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it."
-- Katharine Whitehorn - "When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow, we hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago, and etched on vacant places are half-forgotten faces of friends we used to cherish, and loves we used to know."
-- Ella Wilcox - "Success four flights Thursday morning all against twenty one mile wind started from Level with engine power alone speed through air thirty one miles longest 57 second inform Press home Christmas."
-- Orville Wright
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