Quotes Around the Holidays

With the feeling of the holiday spirit in the air - sharing some of my favorite Christmas quotes and sayings:

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Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, 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. 

By Francis C. Farley

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. 

By Agnes M. Pahro

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

By Don Meredith

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

By Norman Vincent Peale

From home to home, and heart to heart, from one place to another;

The warmth and joy of Christmas, brings us closer to each other.
By Emily Matthews

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

By Roy L. Smith

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.
By Calvin Coolidge

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

By Larry Wilde; The Merry Book of Christmas

Mankind is a great, an immense family.  This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas. 

By Pope John XXIII

Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance - each beautiful, unique and too soon gone. 

By Deborah Whipp

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

Even as an adult I find it difficult to sleep on Christmas Eve.  Yuletide excitement is a potent caffeine, no matter your age. 

By Terri Guillemets

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.
By Laura Ingalls Wilder

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

By Harlan Miller

May the spirit of Christmas bring you peace,
The gladness of Christmas give you hope,
The warmth of Christmas grant you love.
- Anonymous

A Christmas candle is a lovely thing;
It makes no noise at all,
But softly gives itself away.

By Eva Logue

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.
By P.J. O’Rourke

At Christmas play and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year
By Thomas Tusser

At Christmas
A man is at his finest towards the finish of the year;
He is almost what he should be when the Christmas season's here;
Then he's thinking more of others than he's thought the months before,
And the laughter of his children is a joy worth toiling for.
He is less a selfish creature than at any other time;
When the Christmas spirit rules him he comes close to the sublime...
By Edgar Guest

It is good to be children sometimes,

 and never better than at Christmas when its mighty Founder was a child Himself. 

By Charles Dickens

And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so?  It came without ribbons.  It came without tags.  It came without packages, boxes or bags.  And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore.  Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before.  What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more. 

By Dr Seuss

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.

By Oren Arnold