Christmas Quotes - Page 13

• We're not allowed to play Monopoly at home. It gets too vicious.

  Prince Andrew

  Home, Play, Monopoly

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• I was Christmas shopping and ran into a guy on the street. I noticed his watch and said that it runs slow. He said, "So does the guy I stole it from."

  David Letterman

  Running, Shopping, Guy

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• The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.

  Johnny Carson

  Birthday, People, World

  "Late-Night TV Icon Johnny Carson Dies", abcnews.go.com. January 23, 2005.

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• Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Grateful, Thank You God, Happy Holidays

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• It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.

  Markus Zusak

  Littles, Snowman, Basements

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.305, RH Childrens Books

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• Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!

  Phyllis McGinley

  Dimes, Nickels, Petitions

  Phyllis McGinley (1946). “Stones from a glass house: new poems by Phyllis McGinley”, Viking Press

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• I save every Christmas card. I keep them all.

  Alison Sweeney

  Christmas Card, Cards

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• Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable?

  George Gissing

  Hollies, Care, Branches

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.224, The Floating Press

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• I told her that there was something about Christmas carols that always brought tears to my eyes. I added that I also cry at weddings. To me weddings are very solemn occasions. I should have cried at a couple of my own.

  Ethel Merman

  Wedding, Couple, Eye

  "Merman: An Autobiography".

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• As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.

  Clement Clarke Moore

  Sky, Flew Up, House

  Clement Clarke Moore (1934). “The Night Before Christmas: (A Visit from St. Nicholas).”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

  Stephen Leacock

  Believe, Essence, Firsts

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• It is the Christmas time:
  And up and down 'twixt heaven and earth,
  In glorious grief and solemn mirth,
  The shining angels climb.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Grief, Angel, Shining

  Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, “A Hymn For Christmas Morning”

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• Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Bird, Detours, Way

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “You Better Not Cry: True Stories for Christmas”, p.37, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• 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

  Vanity, Bed, Four

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• Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.

  John Cleese

  Want, Calgary, Driveway

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• He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge.

  Herbert Kalmus

  Men, Principles, Alive

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• Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable? One symbol, indeed, has obscured all others-the minted round of metal. And one may safely say that, of all the ages since a coin first became the symbol of power, ours is that in which it yields to the majority of its possessors the poorest return in heart's contentment.

  George Gissing

  Heart, Yield, Hollies

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.224, The Floating Press

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• On a busy day twenty-two thousand people come to visit Santa, and I was told that it is an elf's lot to remain merry in the face of torment and adversity. I promised to keep that in mind.

  David Sedaris

  Adversity, Two, People

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• At one time, most of my friends could hear the bell, but as years passed, it fell silent for all of them. Even Sarah found one Christmas that she could no longer hear its sweet sound. Though I've grown old, the bell still rings for me, as it does for all who truly believe.

  Chris Van Allsburg

  Sweet, Life Changing, Believe

  Chris Van Allsburg (1985). “The Polar Express”

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• Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Holiday, Cheesy, Cheese

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• I think Christmas is about celebration and come on, on the inside everyone wants to dance.

  TobyMac

  Thinking, Giving, Want

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• The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself.

  Peter Abelard

  Might, Causes, Purpose

  "Doctrine And Development". Book by Hastings Rashdall, 1898.

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• Christmas is over and Business is Business.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Business

  "For the Other 365 Days". Trans-communicator, Volume 44, p. 177, 1927.

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• He took the Who’s feast, he took the Who pudding, he took the roast beast. He cleaned out that ice box as quick as a flash. Why, the Grinch even took their last can of Who hash.

  Dr. Seuss

  Ice, Pudding, Lasts

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• Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.

  Jon Anderson

  Perfectly Good, Shopping, Ideas

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