Good King Wenceslas looked out, On the Feast of Stephen; When the snow lay round about, Deep and crisp and even.
Christmas Quotes
Some say that ever ‘gainst the season comes Wherein our Saviour’s birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm; So hallow’d and so gracious is the […]
At Christmas play, and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year. (1557, The Farmer’s Daily Diet)
O come all ye faithful, Joyful and triumphant, O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem.
If Christmas were just the birthday of a great teacher, like Socrates or Buddha, it would never have split time into two, so that all history before the advent of Christ is called B.C. and all history after, A.D.
The approach of Christmas brings harrassment and dread to many excellent people. They have to buy a cart-load of presents, and they never know what to buy to hit the various tastes; they put in three weeks of hard and anxious work, and when Christmas morning comes they are so dissatisfied with the result, and […]
There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmas time. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made out of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them.
I send my thoughts afar, and let them paint your Christmas Day at home.
Christmas is a strange season. We sing songs in front of dead trees and eat candy out of our socks.
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 […]
