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

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
-Mary Ellen Chase

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.
-Charles Dickens

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

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

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!
-Charles Dickens,

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

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

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.
-Laura Ingalls Wilder

May your gift at Christmas is Peace and your blessing all year through!
-Author Unknown

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

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

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.
-Francis C. Farley

It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air. ~W.T. Ellis

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

Even as an adult I find it difficult to sleep on Christmas Eve. Yuletide excitement is potent caffeine, no matter your age.
-Carrie Latet

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

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...
-Norman Wesley Brooks

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!'
-Dave Barry

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

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

For the spirit of Christmas fulfils the greatest hunger of mankind.
-Loring A. Schuler

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

At Christmas play and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year
-Thomas Tusser

Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money.
-Author Unknown

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

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

Christmas is the season when you buy this year's gifts with next year's money.
-- Author Unknown

Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.
-Samuel Johnson

May the spirit of Christmas bring you peace,
The gladness of Christmas give you hope,
The warmth of Christmas grant you love.
-Author Unknown

The message of Christmas is that the visible material world is bound to the invisible spiritual world.
-Author Unknown

I love the Christmas-tide, and yet,
I notice this, each year I live;
I always like the gifts I get,
But how I love the gifts I give!
-Carolyn Wells

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.
-Jay Leno

Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance - a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.
-Augusta E. Rundel

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