Positive Holiday Quotes

• 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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• Oh! lovely voices of the sky
  Which hymned the Saviour's birth,
  Are ye not singing still on high,
  Ye that sang, "Peace on earth"?

  Felicia Hemans

  Christmas, Lovely Voice, Sky

  Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans (1836). “The Poetical Works of Mrs. Felicia Hemans: Complete in One Volume”, p.282

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• Be merry all, be merry all,
  With holly dress the festive hall;
  Prepare the song, the feast, the ball,
  To welcome merry Christmas.

  William Spencer

  Christmas, Song, Hollies

  William Robert Spencer (1835). “Poems”, p.203

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• Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart...filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.

  Bess Streeter Aldrich

  Christmas, Song, Xmas

  Bess Streeter Aldrich (1985). “Journey Into Christmas and Other Stories”, p.207, U of Nebraska Press

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• Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Christmas, Xmas, Children

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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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• 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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• Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.

  Peg Bracken

  Love, Christmas, Time

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• It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.

  William Thomas Ellis

  Christmas, Xmas, Heart

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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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• I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,
  Just like the ones I used to know,
  Where the tree tops glisten
  And children listen
  To hear sleigh bells in the snow.

  Irving Berlin

  Christmas, Dream, Xmas

  White Christmas (1942 song)

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• Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts.

  Joan Winmill Brown

  Christmas, Xmas, Heart

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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 best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.

  Bill Vaughan

  Inspirational, Family, Happy

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• One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly." ~ (1919-), American writer, producer, humorist.

  Andy Rooney

  Christmas, Xmas, Holiday

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• Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.

  Pope John XXIII

  Christmas, Xmas, Heart

  Pope John XXIII (1996). “Days of Devotion: Daily Meditations from the Good Shepherd”, Viking Press

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• 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

  Christmas, Sweet, Xmas

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.475, Library of America

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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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• Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas; Star and angels gave the sign.

  Christina Rossetti

  Christmas, Xmas, Stars

  1893 Verses,'Love Came Down at Christmas'.

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• Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends." ~ (1925- ), English political leader.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Family, Christmas, Xmas

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• Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Christmas, Xmas, Mind

  "Bill O'Reilly: The War on Christmas: The big picture" by Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. November 29, 2012.

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• I have always thought of Christmas time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.

  Charles Dickens

  Christmas, Happy Holidays, Forgiving

  Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.5

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• England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. 'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.

  Walter Scott

  Christmas, Sports, Xmas

  Sir Walter Scott (1873). “Poetical Works”, p.112

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• 'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet,
  Could we bestow the gifts we get,
  And keep the ones we give away,
  How happy were our Christmas day!

  Carolyn Wells

  Christmas, Blessed, Giving

  Carolyn Wells (2016). “Childhood Essentials Library - Carolyn Wells Edition: 29 Novels & 150+ Poems, Stories, Fables & Charades for Children (Illustrated): Patty Fairfield Series, Marjorie Maynard Collection, Two Little Women Trilogy, Mother Goose's Menagerie, The Jingle Book, A Phenomenal Fauna, The Seven Ages of Childhood, Children of Our Town¦”, p.4002, e-artnow

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• I love the Christmas-tide, and yet,
  I notice this, each year I live;
  I always like the gifts I get,
  But how I love the gifts I give!

  Carolyn Wells

  Christmas, Xmas, Years

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