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Christmas time quotes

Open your presents at Christmastime but be thankful year round for the gifts you receive.  ~Lorinda Ruth Lowen


I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become… but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.  ~May Sarton

Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty-fifth of this month, that the Divinest Heart that ever walked the earth was born on that day; and then smile and enjoy yourselves for the rest of it; for mirth is also of Heaven’s making.  ~Leigh Hunt

Great little One! whose all-embracing birth
Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.
~Richard Crashaw

I do like Christmas on the whole…. In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill.  But it is clumsier every year.  ~E.M. Forster

Christmas Day Sayings

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.  ~Harlan Miller


Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in the Holiday Season, that very special time of year when we join with our loved ones in sharing centuries-old traditions such as trying to find a parking space at the mall.  We traditionally do this in my family by driving around the parking lot until we see a shopper emerge from the mall, then we follow her, in very much the same spirit as the Three Wise Men, who 2,000 years ago followed a star, week after week, until it led them to a parking space.  ~Dave Barry

Keep your Christmas-heart open all the year round.  ~Jessica Archmint

Sing hey!  Sing hey!
For Christmas Day;
Twine mistletoe and holly.
For a friendship glows
In winter snows,
And so let’s all be jolly!
~Author Unknown

To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year.  ~E.B. White, “The Distant Music of the Hounds,” The Second Tree from the Corner, 1954

Famous Christmas Quotes

Remember
This December,
That love weighs more than gold!
~Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon


I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day.  We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year.  As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year.  And thus I drift along into the holidays – let them overtake me unexpectedly – waking up some find morning and suddenly saying to myself:  “Why, this is Christmas Day!”  ~David Grayson

A Christmas candle is a lovely thing;
It makes no noise at all,
But softly gives itself away.
~Eva Logue

Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.  ~Janice Maeditere

There are three things which the superior man guards against

Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
~Author : Madame de Tencin Nice Quotes

Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
~Author : Vauvenargues Great Sayings

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
~Author : William Cowper Meaningful Sayings

Speak when you are angry–and you will make the best speech you’ll ever regret.
~Author : Laurence J Peter Wise Quotes

He is not of us who is not affectionate to the little ones, and does not respect the old; and he is not of us, who does not order which is lawful, and prohibits that which is unlawful.
~Author : Prophet Mohammed ibn abbas Motivational Sayings

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
~Author : Rainer Maria Rilke Famous Quotes

Cowards die many times before their deathsThe valiant never taste of death but once.
~Author : William Shakespeare Inspirational Sayings

There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth…lust. When he is strong…quarrelsomeness. When he is old…covetousness.
~Author : Confucius The Confucian Analects Nice Quotes

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.
~Author : Albert Einstein Famous Quotes

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists of “Ten Best”.
~Author : H Allen Smith Inspirational Sayings

It is the darkest hour before dawn.
~Author : Unknown Nice Quotes

In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.
~Author : Mark Twain Great Sayings

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
~Author : Victor Borge Meaningful Sayings

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this Deny your responsibility.
~Author : Lyndon B Johnson Wise Quotes

I will be near you when you cry if just to say I sympathize and when it’s more than you can take I’ll watch the tears fall from your eyes.
~Author : Mortal Motivational Sayings

If a thing isn’t worth saying, you sing it.
~Author : Pierre Beaumarchais Famous Quotes

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
~Author : Sir Francis Bacon Inspirational Sayings

Live to learn… forget… and learn again.
~Author : Brian Nice Quotes

It is a commonplace that the history of civilisation is largely the history of weapons. In particular, the connection between the discovery of gunpowder and the overthrow of feudalism by the bourgeoisie has been pointed out over and over again. And though I have no doubt exceptions can be brought forward, I think the following rule would be found to be generally true that ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will be ages of despotism, whereas when the dominant weapon is cheap and simple, the common people have a chance. Thus, for example, tanks, battleships and bombing planes are inherently tyrannical weapons, while rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon –so long as there is no answer to it– gives claws to the weak.
~Author : George Orwell Great Sayings

An honest man is the noblest work of God.
~Author : Alexander Pope Meaningful Sayings

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
~Author : Robertson Davies Wise Quotes

Time heals what reason cannot.
~Author : Seneca Motivational Sayings


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