Christmas Quotes

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.

There are two S-es in “Christmas” and they’re “both” dollar signs.

This is the irrational season When love blooms bright and wild. Had Mary been filled with reason There’d have been no room for the child.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

And So This Is Christmas; And What Have We Done?; Another Year Over; A New One Just Begun; And So Happy Christmas; I Hope You Have Fun; The Near And The Dear Ones; The Old And The Young;

And herewith I shall end this year(1621). Only I shall remember one passage more, rather of mirth then of waight. One ye day called Christmas-day, ye Govr (William Bradford, Plymouth Colony) caled them out to worke, (as was used,) but ye most of this new-company excused them selves and said it wente against their consciences […]

Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there’s the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.

Dear Lord, I’ve been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us, a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird, a social being, capable of actual affection, nuzzling its young with almost human-like compassion. Anyway, it’s dead and we’re gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family. […]

Christmas is the Disneyfication of Christianity.