Christmas Quotes Wishes and Status Messages - Page 16

Happy, Happy Christmas,
that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days;
that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth;
that can transport the sailor and the traveller,
thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side
and his quiet home!

Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year - and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority.

Love is what''''s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.

Christmas is forever, not for just one day, for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf. The good you do for others is good you do yourself.

In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea

For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it''''s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together

Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles.

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it

Only in souls the Christ is brought to birth, And there He lives and dies.

A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man''''s heart through half the year.

Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer.... Who''''d have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?

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!

T was the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there

In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it ''''Christmas'''' and went to church; the Jews called it ''''Hanukkah'''' and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say ''''Merry Christmas!'''' or ''''Happy Hanukkah!'''' or (to the atheists) ''''Look out for the wall!''''

I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.

A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man''''s heart through half the year.

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.

Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you''''re home.

It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.

There has been only one Christmas - the rest are anniversaries.

We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice

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

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.

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.

Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself.