See also: Holidays Quotes

Agnes M. Pharo:

What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.

Arlo Guthrie:

Santa Claus wears a Red Suit,
He must be a communist.
And a beard and long hair,
Must be a pacifist.
What's in that pipe that he's smoking?

"The Pause of Mr. Claus"

Barbara Ehrenreich:

I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a venereal disease. Never speed up to hit a pedestrian or, or course, stop to kick a pedestrian who has already been hit. From which it followed, of course, that one would never ever -- on pain of deletion from dozens of Christmas card lists across the country -- vote Republican.

Bart Simpson:

Christmas is the one time of year when people of all religions come together to worship Jesus Christ.

Calvin Coolidge:

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.

Charles Dana:

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exists, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy.

editorial in the New York Sun, 1897, responding to a letter from 8-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon

Charles Dickens:

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Charles Dickens:

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Dale Evans:

Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.

Daniel Roselle:

CREDO AT CHRISTMAS

At Christmas time I believe the things that children do.

I believe with English children that holly placed in windows will protect our homes from evil.

I believe with Swiss children that the touch of edelweiss will charm a person with love.

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Dick Gregory:

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white man would be coming into my neighborhood after dark.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox:

When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow,
We hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago,
And etched on vacant places
Are half-forgotten faces
Of friends we used to cherish, and loves we used to know.

"Christmas Fancies" - Poems of Power

Emily Dickinson:

Before the ice is in the pools,
Before the skaters go,
Or any cheek at nightfall
Is tarnished by the snow,
Before the fields have finished,
Before the Christmas tree,
Wonder upon wonder
Will arrive to me!

Erma Bombeck:

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

I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression

Eva K. Logue:

A Christmas candle is a lovely thing;
It makes no noise at all,
But softly gives itself away;
While quite unselfish, it grows small.

Garrison Keillor:

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

George Bernard Shaw:

Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.

Grace Noll Crowell:

Let Us Keep Christmas
Whatever else be lost among the years,
Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing;
Whatever doubts assail us, or what fears,
Let us hold close one day, remembering
It's poignant meaning for the hearts of men.
Let us get back our childlike faith again.

Hamilton Wright Mabie:

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

Harlan Miller:

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

Helen Steiner Rice:

Peace on earth will come to stay,
When we live Christmas every day.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

I heard the bells on Christmas day
Their old familiar carols play
And mild and sweet the words repeat,
Of peace on earth, good will to men.

I thought how as the day had come,
The belfries of all Christendom
Had roll'd along th' unbroken song
Of peace on earth, good will to men.

And in despair I bow'd my head:
"There is no peace on earth," I said,
"For hate is strong, and mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good will to men."

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Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon:

Remember this December, that love weighs more than gold!

Kate L. Bosher:

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.

Katharine Whitehorn:

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

Kin Hubbard:

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

Lenora Mattingly Weber:

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

Lenore Hershey:

Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.

Oren Arnold:

Christmas gift suggestions:

To your enemy, forgiveness.
To an opponent, tolerance.
To a friend, your heart.
To a customer, service.
To all, charity.
To every child, a good example.
To yourself, respect.

Ralph Sockman:

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

Shirley Temple:

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.

Sir Walter Scott:

Heap on the wood!-the wind is chill;
But let it whistle as it will,
We'll keep our Christmas merry still.

W. C. Fields:

Christmas at my house is always at least six or seven times more pleasant than anywhere else. We start drinking early. And while everyone else is seeing only one Santa Claus, we'll be seeing six or seven.

W. C. Jones:

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

Washington Irving:

Christmas! 'Tis the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial fire of charity in the heart.