Quotes About Christmas
Wisdom for the holiday
Merry Christmas! Whether you celebrate the holiday or not, I hope you have a wonderful day filled with love and laughter. These quotes are about Christmas and why some people believe it’s the most wonderful time of the year.
1. “The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.” -George Carlin
2. “Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling.” -Edna Ferber
3. “The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting.” -Louisa May Alcott 4. “Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day.” -Helen Steiner Rice
5. “My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?” -Bob Hope
6. “What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.” -Agnes M. Pahro 7. “I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” -Charles Dickens
8. “Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.” -Thomas S. Monson
9. “If my Valentine you won’t be, I’ll hang myself on your Christmas tree.” -Ernest Hemingway 10. “The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much.” -Henry David Thoreau
11. “I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.” -Shirley Temple
12. “Christmas is the day that holds all time together.” -Alexander Smith 13. “Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you.” -Steve Maraboli
14. “Don’t let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.” -Taylor Caldwell 15. “Freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin — inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night.” -John J. Geddes 16. “Christmas works like glue. It keeps us all sticking together.” -Rosie Thomas
17. “Christmas is a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart.” -Freya Stark
18. “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 19. “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 Christmastime.” -Laura Ingalls Wilder
20. “God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.” -Pope Francis
21. “Nothing ever seems too bad, too hard, or too sad when you’ve got a Christmas tree in the living room.” -Nora Roberts 22. “Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.” -Charles M. Schulz
23. “Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.” -Calvin Coolidge
24. “A good conscience is a continual Christmas.” -Benjamin Franklin 25. “Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.” -Norman Vincent Peale
26. “I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.” -Harlan Miller
27. “Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.” -Ruth Carter Stapleton 28. “Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality.” -Washington Irving
29. “Some Christmas tree ornaments do a lot more than glitter and glow, they represent a gift of love given a long time ago.” -Tom Baker
30. “Let us keep Christmas beautiful without a thought of greed.” -Ann Garnett Schultz 31. “When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things — not the great occasions — give off the greatest glow of happiness.” -Bob Hope
32. “Let’s be naughty and save Santa the trip.” -Gary Allan
33. “What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.” -Phyllis Diller 34. “At Christmas, all roads lead home.” -Marjorie Holmes
35. “I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence, and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.” -Hillary Scott
36. “The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.” -Burton Hills 37. “A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.” -Garrison Keillor
38. “Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.” -Peg Bracken
39. “Santa Claus has the right idea — visit people only once a year.” -Victor Borge 40. “Love the giver more than the gift.” -Brigham Young 41. “He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.” -Roy L. Smith 42. “Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts is that we don’t quite know how to put our love into words.” -Harlan Miller
43. “Let us have music for Christmas… Sound the trumpet of joy and rebirth; Let each of us try, with a song in our hearts, To bring peace to men on earth.” -Mildred L. Jarrell 44. “Christmas magic is silent. You don’t hear it — you feel it. You know it. You believe it.” -Kevin Alan Milne
45. “I don’t think Christmas is necessarily about things. It’s about being good to one another.” -Carrie Fisher 46. “What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?” -Salman Rushdie
47. “Christmas is, of course, the time to be home — in heart as well as body.” -Garry Moore
48. “As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year.” -David Grayson 49. “The holiday season is a perfect time to reflect on our blessings and seek ways to make life better for those around us.” -Anonymous
50. “Christmas is a time when you get homesick — even when you’re home.” -Carol Nelson
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