Call a truce, then to our labors – let us feast with friends and neighbors And be merry as the custom of our caste; For if “faint and forced the laughter,” and if sadness follow after, We are richer by one mocking Christmas past.
Christmas Quotes
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.
I do like Christmas on the whole – In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.
Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.
In Christmas feasting pray take care; Let not your table be a Snare; but with the Poor God’s Bounty share.
On Christmas day you can’t get sore, Your fellow man you must adore, There’s time to cheat him all the more The other three hundred and sixty-four.
This day I was in a better frame, being Christmas Day, which has always inspired me with most agreeable feelings. I went to St. Paul’s Church and in that magnificent temple fervently adored the God of goodness and mercy, and heard a sermon by the Bishop of Oxford (John Hume) on the publishing of glad […]
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.
Picking the perfect Christmas gift has never been easy – even when simply tacking on some quick shopping for other people. Just look at the Three so-called Wise Men. One was crass enough to give gold – the Biblical equivalent of a “gift certificate.” The other unimaginative gift-givers showed up with frankincense and myrrh, proving […]
Bloody Christmas, here again, Let us raise a loving cup, Peace on earth, goodwill to men, And make them do the washing up.
