Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

Christmas

Christmas is over and Business is Business.

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.

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

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

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

I've also just finished filming the role of Robert Brown in 'Just William,' which is due to transmit on BBC One at Christmas.

Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.

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

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

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.

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

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.

Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.

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

I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia.

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

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

Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

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

If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.

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

At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.