‘Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful’
~Norman Vincent Peale

‘I have always thought of Christmastime, 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

‘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 (The Pickwick Papers, 1836)

‘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.
~Walter Scott

‘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

‘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

‘Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart’
~Washington Irving

‘Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas’
~Peg Bracken

‘Isn’t it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for – I don’t know what exactly, but it’s something that you don’t mind so much not having at other times’
~Kate L. Bosher

‘At Christmas, all roads lead home’
~Marjorie Holmes

‘Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!’
~Hamilton Wright Mabie

‘Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas, if you stop opening presents and listen’
~Attributed to a seven-year-old named Bobby

‘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 (‘Let Every Day Be Christmas’ [1976])

‘Christmas is the day that holds all time together’
~Alexander Smith

‘Remember
This December,
That love weighs more than gold!’
~Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

‘I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day.  We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year.  As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year.  And thus I drift along into the holidays – let them overtake me unexpectedly – waking up some find morning and suddenly saying to myself: Why, this is Christmas Day!’
~David Grayson

‘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

‘Christmas is the season when you buy this year’s gifts with next year’s money’
~Anon

‘As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is’
~Eric Sevareid

‘Roses are reddish
Violets are bluish
If it weren’t for Christmas
We’d all be Jewish’
~Benny Hill

‘I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year’
~Charles Dickens

‘Great Little One! Whose all-embracing birth
Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth’
~Richard Crashaw

‘May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through!’
~Author Unknown