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I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future.
Charles Dickens1812–1870A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave IVIn context
- Time
I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world.
Charles Dickens1812–1870A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave VIn context
- Happiness
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 Dickens1812–1870A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave VIn context
Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.
Phyllis Diller1917–2012
What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
Phyllis Diller1917–2012
Christmas is an awfulness that compares favorably with the great London plague and fire of 1665-66. No one escapes the feelings of mortal dejection, inadequacy, frustration, loneliness, guilt and pity.
Harlan Ellison1934–2018“No Offense Intended, But Fuck Xmas!” (1972) The Harlan Ellison Hornbook
- Comedy
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
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790
- Morality
One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas.
O. Henry1862–1910The Gift of the Magi (1905)In context
- Money
But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest. Of all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
O. Henry1862–1910The Gift of the Magi (1905)In context
- Wisdom
The magi, as you know, were wise men⁠—wonderfully wise men⁠—who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.
O. Henry1862–1910The Gift of the Magi (1905)In context
- Wisdom
Next to a circus there ain’t nothing that packs up and tears out any quicker than the Christmas spirit.
Kin Hubbard1868–1930In: The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes, Constable & Robinson, 1 March 2012, p. 145
For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Isaiah766–686 BCThe Book of Isaiah (c. 800–500 B.C.), 9:6
- God
The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.
Helen Keller1880–1968“Christmas in the Dark” in Ladies Home Journal (December 1906)
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