~ Christmas Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Hark the herald angels sing 'Glory to the new-born king.' Peace on earth and mercy mild God and sinners reconciled!

Charles Wesley

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Christmas is the gentlest loveliest festival of the revolving year. And yet for all that when it speaks its voice has strong authority.

W. J. Cameron

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]No Santa Claus! Thank God he lives and he lives forever. A thousand years from now Virginia nay ten times ten thousand years from now he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

Francis P. Church

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house Not a creature was stirring - not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.

Clement C. Moore

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmas time. 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

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]God rest ye little children; let nothing you affright For Jesus Christ your Saviour was born this happy night; Along the hills of Galilee the white flocks sleeping lay When Christ the Child of Nazareth was born on Christmas day.

Dinah Mulock Craik

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I have always thought of Christmas time 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

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees tinsel and reindeers but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas.

Ronald Reagan

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I do come home at Christmas. We all do or we all should. We all come home or ought to come home for a short holiday -- the longer the better -- from the great boarding school where we are forever working at our arithmetical slates to take and give a rest.

Charles Dickens

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]In the old days it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it 'Christmas' and went to church; the Jews called it 'Hanukkah' and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say 'Merry Christmas!' or 'Happy Hanukkah!' or (to the atheists) 'Look out for the wall!'

Dave Barry