Quotes & Sayings

Top 25 Christmas Quotes of All Time

“I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.” (Henny Youngman)

“Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.” (Stephen Graham Jones)

“Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.” (Larry Wilde)

“Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.” (Winston Churchill)

“Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling.” (Edna Ferber)

“Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.” (Pope Francis)

“Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn’t come from a store.” (Dr. Seuss)

“Let’s be naughty and save Santa the trip.” (Gary Allan)

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

“Christmas is the day that holds all time together.” (Alexander Smith)

“He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.” (Roy L. Smith)

“Santa Claus has the right idea – visit people only once a year.” (Victor Borge)

“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!” (Hamilton Wright Mabie)

“Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.” (Dr. Seuss)

“Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.” (Author unknow)

“Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving, and of families united.” (Norman Vincent Peale)

“Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.” (Ruth Carter Stapleton)

“Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts is that we don’t quite know how to put our love into words.” (Harlan Miller)

“Christmas is not just a time for festivity and merry making. It is more than that. It is a time for the contemplation of eternal things. The Christmas spirit is a spirit of giving and forgiving.” (J. C. Penney)

“My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?” (Bob Hope)

“The best way to spread Christmas Cheer is singing loud for all to hear.” (Elf)

“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 Christmastime.” (Laura Ingalls Wilder)

“There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.” (Erma Bombeck)

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

“There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter.” (Gordon B. Hinckley)

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