Inspirational Christmas Quotes - Page 5

• Sing hey! Sing hey!
  For Christmas Day;
  Twine mistletoe and holly.
  For a friendship glows
  In winter snows,
  And so let's all be jolly!
  At Christmas play and make good cheer,
  For Christmas comes but once a year

  Thomas Tusser

  Cheer, Merry Christmas, Winter

  Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie (1580)

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• Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.

  Dave Barry

  Christmas, Religious, Holiday

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• Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.

  Freya Stark

  Christmas, Home, Heart

  Freya Stark (2014). “The Zodiac Arch”, p.61, I.B.Tauris

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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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• 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, Christmas, People

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

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• Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer... Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?

  Bill Watterson

  Christmas, Xmas, Beer

  "Calvin and Hobbes". Comic strip by Bill Watterson, November 18, 1985 – December 31, 1995.

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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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• There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Ungrateful People

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1951). “Haiku: Eastern culture”

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• Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.

  Lauryn Hill

  Gratitude, Reality, Done

  "Lauryn Hill: Brainwashed?" by Roger Friedman, www.foxnews.com. June 11, 2002.

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• A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

  Donna Roberts

  Best Friend, Friendship, Relationship

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• We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

  Bill Vaughan

  Hilarious, Gratitude, Animal

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• Thanks are justly due for boons unbought

  Ovid

  Thankful, Gratitude, Thanks

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• Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

  Khalil Gibran

  Thank You, Gratitude, Yoga

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Give others freedom to be themselves. Appreciate the differences between their ways an yours.

  Jennifer Chen

  Friendship, Differences, Appreciate

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• There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.

  Robert Breault

  Thankful, Gratitude, Old Fashioned

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• There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Friendship, Memories, Heart

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5010, Delphi Classics

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• I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

  Walt Whitman

  Funny, Friendship, Believe

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

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• When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.

  Anatole Broyard

  Friendship, Advice, Being Sad

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• Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.

  Jimmy Cannon

  Christmas, Lonely, Holiday

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• The Prince, charmed with these words, and much more with the manner in which they were spoken, knew not how to show his joy and gratitude; he assured her that he loved her better than he did himself.

  Charles Perrault

  Gratitude, Joy, Shows

  Charles Perrault (2015). “The sleeping beauty in the woods”, p.19, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

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• There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Gratitude, Men, Ties

  "Lettres Persanes" by Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, No. 104 (Usbek writing to Ibben), 1721.

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• A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Gratitude, Animal, Understanding

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• It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them.

  Betty Buckley

  Gratitude, Opportunity, Feminist

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• Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends.

  Henry Adams

  Friendship, Funny Friend, Men

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