A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
-Benjamin Franklin
A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a
thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
-Garrison Keillor
America is a place where Jewish merchants sell Zen love beads to
agnostics for Christmas.
-John Burton Brimer
Anybody who talks about California hedonism has never spent a Christmas
in Sacramento.
-Joan Didion
As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas
is.
-Eric Sevareid
Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year
to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.
-Eric
Sevareid
Christmas is a strange season. We sing songs in front of dead trees and
eat candy out of our socks.
-John Wagner (From the comic strip
Maxine)
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 Lamm
Christmas is a time when you get homesick, even when you're home.
-Carol
Nelson
Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind.
-Mary Ellen Chase
Christmas is over and Business is Business.
-Franklin P. Adams
Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.
-Edna Ferber
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel
hopefully is better than to arrive.
-Stephen Fry
Christmas: It's the only religious holiday that's also a federal
holiday. That way, Christians can go to their services, and everyone
else can sit at home and reflect on the true meaning of the separation
of church and state.
-Samantha Bee
From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be
necessary to invent it.
-Katherine Whitehorn
I prefer the retro chic of spending Christmas just like Joseph and Mary
did- Traveling arduously back to the place of your birth to be counted,
with no guarantee of a bed when you get there.
-Tina Fey
I was a Christmas present that was delivered unwrapped.
-Rod
Serling
I've learned that you can tell a lot about a man by the way he handles
these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas
tree lights.
-Variously attributed
In my experience, clever food is not appreciated at Christmas. It makes
the little ones cry and the old ones nervous.
-Oliver Wendell
Holmes, Sr.
Merry Christmas! the man threatened.
-William Gaddis
Merry Christmas, Nearly Everybody!
-Ogden Nash
Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of
children, they are all 30 feet tall.
-Larry Wilde
Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out any
quicker than the Christmas spirit.
-Frank McKinney (Kin) Hubbard
Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when
they ran out of money.
-Variously attributed
One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the
living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly.
-Andy
Rooney
One thing I learned from drinking is that if you ever go Christmas
caroling, you should go with a group of people. And also go sometime in
December.
Louis C.K.
Roses are reddish
Violets are bluish
If it weren't for Christmas
We'd
all be Jewish.
-Benny Hill
Something in me resists the calendar expectation of happiness. Merry
Christmas yourself! it mutters as it shapes a ghostly grin.
-J.B.
Priestley
Thanksgiving comes after Christmas for people over thirty.
-Peter
Kreeft
The one thing women don't want to find in their stockings on Christmas
morning is their husband.
-Joan Rivers
The problem isn't the grinches who steal Christmas, it's the grinches
who celebrate it.
-Christopher Hitchens
The whole point of Christmas is that it is a debauch- as it was probably
long before the birth of Christ was arbitrarily fixed at that date.
Children know this very well. From their point of view Christmas is not
a day of temperate enjoyment, but of fierce pleasures which they are
quite willing to pay for with a certain amount of pain.
-George
Orwell
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(December 14 is the birthday of Margaret Chase Smith Patty Duke.)
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