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.
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
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.
Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
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.
Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance.
It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.
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.
What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
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.
That's the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.
Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.
the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you
And the more you spend in blessing The poor and lonely and sad, The more of your heart's possessing Returns to you glad.
Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.
Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.
Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first. The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world of the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years... Underneath all the bulging bundles is this beating Christmas heart.
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!
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