Very gay they were with snow and sleigh-bells, holly-boughs, and garlands, below, and Christmas sunshine in the winter sky above. All faces shone, all voices had a cheery ring, and everybody stepped briskly on errands of good-will.
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is ofter and more beautiful.


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


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


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


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


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.


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!


'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale;
'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale;
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer
The poor man's heart through half the year.



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.


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.


May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through!


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


Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall. ~Larry Wilde, The Merry Book of Christmas