Christmas Day Quotes - Page 2

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

Christmas, Xmas, Holiday

Ray Stannard Baker (1910). “Adventures in Friendship”

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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

Washington Irving

Christmas, Thank You, Heart

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

Dave Barry

Christmas, Christian, Atheist

"Christmas Shopping: A Survivor's Guide" by Dave Barry, www.davebarry.com.

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As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same.

Donald E. Westlake

Family, Christmas, Struggle

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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

Funny, Christmas, Wise

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

Garrison Keillor

Love, Funny, Christmas

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Remember
This December,
That love weighs more than gold!

Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

Christmas, Winter, Gold

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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

Funny, Christmas, Xmas

"The Pickwick Papers". Book by Charles Dickens, 1836.

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What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.

Phyllis Diller

Christmas, Jobs, Xmas

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Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.

Dale Evans

Love, Marriage, Christmas

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From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.

Katharine Whitehorn

Funny, Christmas, Views

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To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To you, respect.

Oren Arnold

Christmas, Xmas, Children

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I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know.

Irving Berlin

Christmas, Dream, Xmas

"White Christmas" (song) (1942)

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My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?

Bob Hope

Christmas, Xmas, Holiday

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Best of all, Christmas means a spirit of love, a time when the love of God
and the love of our fellow men
should prevail over all hatred and bitterness,
a time when our thoughts
and deeds and the spirit of our lives manifest the presence of God.

George McDougall

Christmas, Mean, Healing

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Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first.

George Matthew Adams

Christmas, Heart, Thinking

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For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

Charles Dickens

Christmas, Children, Sometimes

Charles Dickens (1845). “A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas”, p.111

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Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.

Eric Sevareid

Christmas, Xmas, Holiday

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At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.

Thomas Tusser

Christmas, Xmas, Cheer

Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie (1580)

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Good news from heaven the angels bring,
Glad tidings to the earth they sing:
To us this day a child is given,
To crown us with the joy of heaven.

Martin Luther

Christmas, Children, Angel

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Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

Alexander Smith

Christmas, Xmas, Holiday

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Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

Hamilton Wright Mabie

Love, Christmas, Xmas

Hamilton Wright Mabie (1900). “My study fire: first series”

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The very purpose of Christ's coming into the world was that He might offer up His life as a sacrifice for the sins of men. He came to die. This is the heart of Christmas.

Billy Graham

Christmas, Xmas, Heart

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Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.

Phillips Brooks

Christmas, Xmas, Joy

Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Sermons for the principal festivals and fasts of the church year, ed. by Rev John Cotton Brooks”

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I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Charles Dickens

Love, Christmas, Education

A Christmas Carol stave 4 (1843)

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