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Hail Bishop Valentine, whose day this is;
All the air is thy diocese.
John Donne1572–1631An Epithalamion…on the Lady Elizabeth and Count Palatine being Married on St. Valentine’s Day (1613)
What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.
Frederick Douglass1817–1895What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852)
- America
- Slavery
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
- Christmas
- 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
- Christmas
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790
- Christmas
- Morality
Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.
KGKonrad von Gesner1516–1565
- Thanksgiving
One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas.
O. Henry1862–1910The Gift of the Magi (1905)In context
- Christmas
- 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
- Christmas
- 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
- Christmas
- 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
- Christmas
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
- Christmas
- 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
As we give thanks for the Earth, will we live in such a way that the Earth can be grateful for us?
Robin Wall Kimmererborn 1953from interviews and conversations (2015)
- Nature
- Thanksgiving
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
Irv Kupcinet1912–2003
- Thanksgiving
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
- Christmas
- Economics