Christmas Quotes

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Charles Dudley Warner

Rather, Lies, Value

Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!
Phyllis McGinley

Time, Put, Please

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.
Marcelene Cox

Children, Getting, Election

Christmas makes me happy no matter what time of year it comes around.
Bryan White

Time, Happy, Around

In our open society, we are inclined to give to the less fortunate for the pure goodness of giving. We open our home to those who are alone on this holiday to spread some warmth into the life of another.
Jeff Miller

Life, Home, Society

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

Beautiful, Magic, Waves

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

Heart, Try, Keep

We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.
Ronald Reagan

Home, War, Country

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

Morning, Nothing, Child

It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.
Ronald Reagan

Home, Country, Put

I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it.
Demetri Martin

Birthday, Happy, Jesus

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

Time, Government, Tell

It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.
Caroline Kennedy

Life, Work, Family

Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.
Jimmy Cannon

Lonely, Holiday, Rejected

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

Nothing, Spirit, Next

In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.
Richard Bach

Become, Idea, United

Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.
T. S. Eliot

Moving, Between, Taking

I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch.
Jose Mourinho

Good, Father, Game

There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in.
Helen Hayes

I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.
Clarence Clemons

Wanted, Train, Saxophone

Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
Richard Roeper

Thanksgiving, Away, Beginning

Christmas makes everything twice as sad.
Doug Coupland

Sad, Makes, Twice

Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.
Johnny Carson

Funny, Time, Lose

I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things.
Richard Dawkins

Father, Tell, Accept

Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
Orson Welles

Old, Off, While

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