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.
8 quotes from Stephen Leacock
Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
6 quotes from Alexander Smith
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
96 other quotes from Benjamin Franklin
I've also just finished filming the role of Robert Brown in 'Just William,' which is due to transmit on BBC One at Christmas.
2 quotes from Harry Melling
Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
2 other wisdom & wit from Freya Stark
Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
2 more quotes from Victor Borge
Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.
9 quotes from Ethel Merman
There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
33 thoughts from Erma Bombeck
I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
20 more sayings from William Tecumseh Sherman
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
26 sayings from Charles Dickens
I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.
16 more sayings from Henny Youngman
Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!
6 more wisdom & wit from Phyllis McGinley
Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.
8 quotes from Dr. Seuss
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
18 other sayings from Washington Irving
Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.
2 quotes from Jimmy Cannon
Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.
4 views from John Clayton
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
11 more quotes from Norman Vincent Peale
I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia.
2 other thoughts from David O. Selznick
To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.
19 other thoughts from E. B. White
Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.
5 other wisdom & wit from Edna Ferber
Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
27 quotes from Kin Hubbard
Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.
5 wisdom & wit from Frances Wright
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
5 thoughts from Charles Dudley Warner
If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.
13 other sayings from Mahalia Jackson
The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.
2 quotes from Paul Engle
At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.
4 more wisdom & wit from Thomas Tusser
Christmas is over and Business is Business.
8 more thoughts from Franklin P. Adams