(Ho Ho Ho....)
There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.
--Bill McKibben Author, Hundred Dollar Holiday: The Case For a More Joyful Christmas
What do you call people who are afraid of Santa Claus? Claustrophobic.
--Unknown
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
--Norman Vincent Peale
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
--Hamilton Wright Mabi
Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first. The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world of the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years... Underneath all the bulging bundles is this beating Christmas heart.
--George Mathhew Adams
It was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, "God Bless Us, Every One!
--Charles Dickens
Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
--Mary Ellen Chase
Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles.
--Unknown
If there is no joyous way to give a festive gift, give love away.
--Unknown
Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christmas fire, and make the little picture shining in our bright young eyes, complete.
--Charles Dickens
Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered. What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
--Phyllis Diller