Christmas is a strange season. We sing songs in front of dead trees and eat candy out of our socks.
Christmas Quotes
A deliberately austere Christmas would be an absurdity. The whole point of Christmas is that it is a debauch – as it was probably long before the birth of Christ was arbitrarily fixed at that date. Children know this very well. From their point of view Christmas is not a day of temperate enjoyment, but […]
If TV has taught me anything, it’s that miracles always happen to poor kids at Christmas. It happened to Tiny Tim, it happened to Charlie Brown, it happened to the Smurfs, and it’s going to happen to us. (Bart Simpson)
Christmas is when you have to go to the bank and get crisp money to put in envelopes from the stationery store for tips. After you tip the doorman, he goes on sick leave or quits and the new one isn’t impressed.
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me.
The magi, as you know, were wise men – wonderfuly wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.
A certain wicked priest, when he was chanting the evening prayers on Christmas Eve, said “We have to do all this singing although Mary had only one child. What would it be like if she had had more? We’d have to scream ourselves to death!”
He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, […]
Do give books – religious or otherwise – for Christmas. They’re never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.
There are some people who want to throw their arms round you just because it’s Christmas, there are other people who want to strangle you just because its Christmas.
