Quotes about Christmas

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.

– Thomas S. Monson

There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.

– Robert Staughton Lynd

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

– Phyllis McGinley

If you haven’t got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

– Bob Hope

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

– Benjamin Franklin

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

For it is in giving that we receive.

– Francis of Assisi

What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.

– Phyllis Diller

T’was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

– Clement Clarke Moore

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

– Charles Dudley Warner

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

– Freya Stark

I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.

– Hillary Scott

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

There is no better time than now, this very Christmas season, for all of us to rededicate ourselves to the principles taught by Jesus the Christ. It is the time to love the Lord, our God, with all our heart – and our neighbors as ourselves.

– Thomas S. Monson

Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won’t make it ‘white’.

– Bing Crosby

Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.

– Pindar

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

– Bryan White

The best Christmas present I got from my husband was a week to do whatever I wanted.

– Olivia Williams

Don’t let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

– Taylor Caldwell

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn’t for any religious reasons. They couldn’t find three wise men and a virgin.

– Jay Leno

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.

– Calvin Coolidge

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

– Gilbert K. Chesterton

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

– Garrison Keillor

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

– Alexander Smith

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

– Charles Dickens

The thing about Christmas is that it almost doesn’t matter what mood you’re in or what kind of a year you’ve had – it’s a fresh start.

– Kelly Clarkson

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don’t clean it up too quickly.

– Andy Rooney

Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.

– Winston Churchill

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

– Roy L. Smith

Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.

– B. C. Forbes

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

– Stephen Leacock

Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.

– Charles M. Schulz

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.

– Pope Francis

There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter.

– Gordon B. Hinckley

Let’s be naughty and save Santa the trip.

– Gary Allan

Christmas is, of course, the time to be home – in heart as well as body.

– Garry Moore

I just think Christmas is a time to embrace all the naughty little things.

– Jade Thirlwall

And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.

– Jesus Christ

Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling.

– Edna Ferber

I don’t think Christmas is necessarily about things. It’s about being good to one another, it’s about the Christian ethic, it’s about kindness.

– Carrie Fisher

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

– George Carlin

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.

– Bernard Manning

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

– Victor Borge

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.

– Mary Ellen Chase

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

– Henny Youngman

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

– Norman Vincent Peale

The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world’s busy life and become more interested in people than in things.

– Thomas S. Monson

Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us – a time when we can look back on the year that has passed and prepare for the year ahead.

– David Cameron

The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother’s hand making sure I was settled in bed.

– Paul Engle