Well, so that is that. Now we must dismantle the tree, Putting the decorations back into their cardboard boxes – Some have got broken – and carrying them up to the attic. The holly and the mistletoe must be traken down and burnt, And the children got ready for school. There are enough Left-overs to […]
Christmas Quotes
Midnight and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves’ birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through.
In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it “Christmas” and went to church; the Jews called it “Hanukkah” and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say “Merry Christmas!” or “Happy Hanukkah!” or (to the atheists) “Look […]
And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him; and when they had opened their Samsonite travelling bags, they presented unto him gifts; Obsession for Men, and Lady Speed Stick, and a genuine 10 carat gold filled necklace from the Home […]
Christmas itself may be called into question, If carried so far it creates indigestion.
Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind.
I’m dreaming of a white Christmas.
Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
And is it true, This most tremendous tale of all, Seen in a stained-glass window’s hue, A Baby in an ox’s stall? The Maker of the stars and sea Become a Child on earth for me? And is it true? For if it is, No loving fingers tying strings Around those tissued fripperies, The sweet […]
If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkeness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have a fact hidden in it somewhere. But when Bernard Shaw says that Christmas Day is only a conspiracy kept up by Poulterers and wine merchants from strictly business motives, then he says something […]
