Christmas Day Quotes - Page 3

• At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.

  Thomas Tusser

  Christmas, Xmas, Cheer

  Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie (1580)

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• Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first.

  George Matthew Adams

  Christmas, Heart, Thinking

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• The very purpose of Christ's coming into the world was that He might offer up His life as a sacrifice for the sins of men. He came to die. This is the heart of Christmas.

  Billy Graham

  Christmas, Xmas, Heart

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• To the American People: Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. If we think on these things, there will be born in us a Savior and over us will shine a star sending its gleam of hope to the world." ~ Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), American president. Presidential message (December 25, 1927).

  Calvin Coolidge

  Christmas, Stars, Xmas

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• A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.

  Walter Scott

  Christmas, Xmas, Cheer

  Sir Walter Scott (1838). “Poetical works”, p.278

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• Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.

  Victor Borge

  Funny, Christmas, Witty

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• Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Christmas, Xmas, Children

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• 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.

  Edgar Guest

  Christmas, Laughter, Children

  Edgar Albert Guest, “At Christmas”

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• The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.

  Phillips Brooks

  Christmas, Song, Xmas

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• The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Christmas, Girl

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

  Erma Bombeck

  Christmas, Spiritual, Morning

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.260, Open Road Media

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• Let's be naughty and save Santa the trip.

  Gary Allan

  Christmas, Journey, Naughty

  Song: Let's Be Naughty

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• Only in souls the Christ is brought to birth,
  And there He lives and dies.

  Alfred Noyes

  Christmas, Soul, Birth

  Alfred Noyes (1920). “Collected Poems”

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• Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.

  Dr. Seuss

  Christmas, Stores, Merry Christmas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Christmas, Mother, Memories

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• 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

  Funny, Birthday, Christmas

  "Comedy Central Presents/ Demetri Martin". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• The hinge of history is on the door of a Bethlehem stable.

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Christmas, Doors, Bethlehem

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• A scientist said, making a plea for exchange scholarships between nations, "The best way to send an idea is to wrap it up in a person." That was what happened at Christmas. The idea of divine love was wrapped up in a person.

  Halford Luccock

  Christmas, Ideas, Way

  "Whoops! It's Christmas". "The Abbott Christmas Book". Book edited by Herbert W. Luthin, 1960.

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• Christmas began in the heart of God. It is complete only when it reaches the heart of man.Why wait for a call when you have a command?

  Robert Hughes

  Christmas, Xmas, Heart

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• For many of us, sadly, the spirit of Christmas is "hurry". And yet, eventually, the hour comes when the rushing ends and the race against the calendar mercifully comes to a close. It is only now perhaps that we truly recognize the spirit of Christmas. (...) With all its temporal confusion, it may just help us to see that by contrast, Christmas itself is eternal.

  Burton Hill

  Christmas, Rushing, Race

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• Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.

  Freya Stark

  Christmas, Home, Heart

  Freya Stark (2014). “The Zodiac Arch”, p.61, I.B.Tauris

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• What can I give Him,
  Poor as I am?
  If I were a shepherd
  I would bring a lamb.
  If I were a Wise Man
  I would do my part.
  Yet what can I give Him?
  I give Him my heart.

  Christina Rossetti

  Christmas, Wise, Heart

  Christina Rossetti, Simon Humphries (2008). “Poems and Prose”, p.211, Oxford University Press

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• There is no name so sweet on earth,
  no name so sweet in heaven,
  The name, before His wondrous birth,
  to Christ the Savior given.

  George Washington Bethune

  Christmas, Sweet, Names

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• The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
  In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.

  Clement Clarke Moore

  Christmas, Care, Would Be

  1822 The Night Before Christmas.

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• 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

  Christmas, Years, Memorial

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.205

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