One Christmas was so much like the other in those days around the sea-torn corner now out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear the moment before sleep that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it […]
Christmas Quotes
People can’t concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces properly if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the 25th of December.
That’s the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.
Christmas would mean nothing if it were not shared with someone. It is a festival which cannot be indulged in alone. The gaudy red ribbon about the simplest gift causes that gift to take on a merit which it did not possess before; and just as a single rose may light up a room, so […]
Merry Christmas, Nearly Everybody!
At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May’s new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows. (Love’s Labour’s Lost)
For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.
Good King Wenceslas looked out, On the Feast of Stephen; When the snow lay round about, Deep and crisp and even.
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)
