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, The Pickwick Papers, 1836
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. Cameron
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 waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. --Norman Vincent Peale
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other. --Burton Hillis
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
. I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. --Charles Dickens
Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall. --Larry Wilde
Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. --Washington Irving
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
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
Even as an adult I find it difficult to sleep on Christmas Eve. Yuletide excitement is a potent caffeine, no matter your age. --Carrie Latet
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love! --Hamilton Wright Mabie
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, "Christmas Shopping: A Survivor's Guide"
Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts. --Janice Maeditere
For the spirit of Christmas fulfils the greatest hunger of mankind. --Loring A. Schuler
