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In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it ‘Christmas’ and went to church; the Jews called it ‘Hanukkah’ and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say ‘Merry Christmas!’ or ‘Happy Hanukkah!’ or (to the atheists) ‘Look out for the wall!’
Dave Barryborn 1947“Christmas Shopping: A Survivor’s Guide”
- Dave Barry
How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, his precepts! O! ‘tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack
- Christianity
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?
Dr. Seuss1904–1991
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.
Laura Ingalls Wilder1867–1957
I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old, familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882Christmas Bells, Stanza 1In context
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
Charles Dickens1812–1870A Christmas Carol (1843), “Ebeneezer Scrooge”, in A Christmas Carol by Charles DickensIn context
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790
- Morality
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 Coolidge1872–1933Reported in
I have always thought of Christmas time as a good time. A kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time. The only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.
Charles Dickens1812–1870A Christmas Carol (1843)
Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004
There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
EBErma Bombeck1927–1996I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression (1970)
Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.
Phyllis Diller1917–2012
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
Charles Dickens1812–1870
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
Norman Vincent Peale1898–1993
Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it.
Richard Lamm1935–2021
- Economics