Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.
- Ruth Carter Stapleton

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.
- Calvin Coolidge

Christmas is not just a day, an event to be observed and speedily forgotten. It is a spirit which should permeate every part of our lives.
- William Parks

Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving, and of families united.
- Norman Vincent Peale

The season of giving...Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home.
- Carol Nelson

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
- Roy L. Smith

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
- Mary Ellen Chase

I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.
- Charles Dickens

Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year - and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority.
- WJ Cameron

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
- Burton Hillis

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!
- Charles Dickens

There has been only one Christmas - the rest are anniversaries.
- WJ Cameron

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.
- Laura Ingalls Wilder

May peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through!
- Author Unknown

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
- Charles Dickens

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.
- Larry Wilde

Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
- Washington Irving

Isn't it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for - I don't know what exactly, but it's something that you don't mind so much not having at other times.
- Kate L. Bosher

Instead of being a time of unusual behaviour, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself.
- Francis C. Farley

It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.
- W.T. Ellis

For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.
- W.J. Ronald Tucker

Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it.
- Richard Lamm

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
- Katharine Whitehorn

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!
- Hamilton Wright Mabie

I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays - let them overtake me unexpectedly - waking up some find morning and suddenly saying to myself: "Why, this is Christmas Day!"
- David Grayson

Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles. - Author Unknown When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
- G.K. Chesterton

For the spirit of Christmas fulfils the greatest hunger of mankind.
- Loring A. Schuler

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.
- Harlan Miller

To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year.
- EB White

Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money.
- Author Unknown

Christmas is for children. But it is for grown-ups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide-bound hearts.
- Lenora Mattingly Weber

There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them.
- P.J. O'Rourke

I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.
- May Sarton

Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty-fifth of this month, that the Divinest Heart that ever walked the earth was born on that day; and then smile and enjoy yourselves for the rest of it; for mirth is also of Heaven's making.
- Leigh Hunt

I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.
- E.M. Forster

Christmas is the season when you buy this year's gifts with next year's money.
- Author Unknown

The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.
- Samuel Johnson

It is the one season of the year when we can lay aside all gnawing worry, indulge in sentiment without censure, assume the carefree faith of childhood, and just plain "have fun." Whether they call it Yuletide, Noel, Weinachten, or Christmas, people around the earth thirst for its refreshment as the desert traveller for the oasis.
- DD Monroe

If "ifs" and "buts" were candy and nuts, wouldn't it be a Merry Christmas?
- Don Meredith

Once again, we come to the holiday season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.
- Unknown

The message of Christmas is that the visible material world is bound to the invisible spiritual world.
- Author Unknown

It is the personal thoughtfulness, the warm human awareness, the reaching out of the self to one's fellow man that makes giving worthy of the Christmas spirit.
- Isabel Currier

May we not "spend" Christmas or "observe" Christmas, but rather "keep" it.
- Peter Marshall

My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?
- Bob Hope

Of course, this is the season to be jolly, but it is also a good time to be thinking about those who aren't.
- Helen Valentine

The joy of brightening other lives, bearing others' burdens, easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.
- W. C. Jones

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
- Erma Bombeck

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young.
- Phillips Brooks

Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.
- Kin Hubbard

Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.
- P.J. O'Rourke

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
- Kin Hubbard

Christmas - that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance - a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.
- Augusta E. Rundel

People can't concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the twenty-fifth of December.
- Ogden Nash

Christmas is sights, especially the sights of Christmas reflected in the eyes of a child.
- William Saroyan

We should try to hold on to the Christmas spirit, not just one day a year, but all 365.
- Mary Martin