Great Holiday Quotes

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

Christmas, Xmas, Real

"Chicken soup for the soul Christmas treasury for kids" by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Patty Hansen, Irene Dunlap, HCI, (p. 1), 2002.

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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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The secret anniversaries of the heart.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Birthday, Time, Heart

'The Ladder of Saint Augustine' (1850)

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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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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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Christmas is for children. But it is for grownups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide bound hearts.

Lenora Mattingly Weber

Christmas, Xmas, Children

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The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others' burdens, easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.

William Carey Jones

Christmas, Xmas, Heart

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To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.

Phillip Adams

Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Heart, Holiday, Self

'The Ladder of Saint Augustine' (1850)

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Things must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

Long Distance Relationship, Valentine, Heart

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Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance.

Oren Arnold

Christmas, Xmas, Tolerance

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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

Christmas, Xmas, Memories

Laura Ingalls Wilder, Yvonne Pope (2006). “Laura Ingalls Wilder's Prairie Wisdom”, p.68, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.

Elbert Hubbard

Work, Holiday, Men

Elbert Hubbard (1904). “This Then is Consecrated Lives: Being Essays”

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I have had a holiday, and I'd like to take it up professionally.

Kylie Minogue

Travel, Funny Christmas, Holiday

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I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.

Fred Rogers

Children, Holiday, Suspense

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

Love, Inspirational, Funny

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

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I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

Shirley Temple

Funny, Christmas, Mother

Quoted in Leslie Halliwell, Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion (1984)

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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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A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.

Earl Wilson

Holiday, Vacation, Vacation Time

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Brigham Young

Love, Christmas, Meaningful

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Every piece of the universe, even the tiniest little snow crystal, matters somehow. I have a place in the pattern, and so do you. Thinking of you this holiday season!

T.A. Barron

Christmas, Thinking Of You, Holiday

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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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May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility.

Mary Anne Radmacher

Happiness, Christmas, Laughter

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After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.

Kenneth Grahame

Holiday, Vacation, Busy

Kenneth Grahame (2016). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.5, Xist Publishing

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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

George Bernard Shaw

Retirement, Work, Holiday

Misalliance preface (1914)

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