The only thing bad about a holiday is it is followed by a non-holiday. – Anon.
The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself. – Peter Abelard
Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through. – Angela Carter
Washington – Alistair Cooke
Call a truce, then, to our labors — let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if faint and forced the laughter, and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past. – Rudyard Kipling
This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heavens eternal King, of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, our great redemption from above did bring. – John Milton
God walked down the stairs of heaven with a Baby in His arms. – Paul Scherer
Lucy: Beethovens birthday is December 16th Shermy! Have you decided what youre going to get me? Shermy: Yes! Im not going to get you anything! Lucy: What kind of a holiday is it where you dont give girls presents? – Charles Monroe Schulz
Twas Christmas broachd the mightiest ale; twas Christmas told the merriest tale; a Christmas gambol oft could cheer the poor mans heart through half the year. – Sir Walter Scott
Christ was born in the first century, yet he belongs to all centuries. He was born a Jew, yet He belongs to all races. He was born in Bethlehem, yet He belongs to all countries. – George W. Truett
So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall. – Henry Vaughan
