Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
Christmas Quotes
“If I could work my will,” said Scrooge indignantly, “every idiot who goes about with “Merry Christmas” on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.”
Of all the old festivals… that of Christmas awakens the strongest and most heartfelt associations. There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with out conviviality and lifts the spirit to a state of hallowed and elevated enjoyment.
Let’s dance and sing and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.
Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christmas fire, and make the little picture shining in our bright young eyes, […]
Christmas! ‘Tis the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial fire of charity in the heart.
Then Dickens spoke, and, lo! the vast Unpeopled void stirred into life; The dead world quickened, the mad blast Hushed for an hour its idiot strife… And from the gloom… Old friends and dear came trooping in, And light and laughter filled the room… Voices and faces, shapes beloved, Babbling lips and kindly eyes, Not […]
What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
One of the least pleasing effects of modern refinement is the havoc it has made among the hearty old holiday customs. It has completely taken off the sharp touchings and spirited reliefs of these embellishments of life, and worn down society into a more smooth and polished, but certainly less characteristic surface. Many of the […]
Christmas means a spirit of love, a time when the love of God and the love of our fellow men should prevail over all hatred and bitterness, a time when our thoughts and deeds and the spirit of our lives manifest the presence of God.
