How do you feel today? Here are ten quotes on Christmas which just about capture the possible range of emotions that this holiday season could evoke in each of us. See if any of these quotes capture your mood or thought on this most awaited day in Christendom. Hope yours is not like that of Bart Simpson (at the end of this post). Once again, Merry Christmas, folks!
The "first Christmas" was a simple time of beauty and wonder. The birth of Christ was less about celebration than it was about family. Though many today may grow tired of the commercialization of Christmas, in reality it has opened the door for Christ to once again become the focal point of the season, and for family, especially children, to be at the heart of the celebration. -Ace Collins(Thanks to www.sxc.hu for the royalty-free photo shown above). Print
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Merry Christmas! ... What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, and not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in 'em through a round dozen of months presented against you? If I would work my will ... every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas," on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. -Charles Dickens
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When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- give off the greatest glow of happiness. -Bob Hope
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The one thing women don't want to find in their stockings on Christmas morning is their husband. -Joan Rivers
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Christmas is a season of such infinite labour, as well as expense in the shopping and present-making line, that almost every woman I know is good for nothing in purse and person for a month afterwards, done up physically, and broken down financially. -Fanny Kemble
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Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. If we think on these things, there will be born in us a Savior and over us will shine a star sending its gleam of hope to the world. -Calvin Coolidge
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For many people, Christmas is about the grand gesture -- spending days and nights in frenzied cooking and decorating, enduring crowds to buy piles of gifts, and attending to a calendar chock-full of obligations. The funny thing is, at the end of all the huzzah and hurrah, many of us are exhausted rather than exhilarated. -Donata Maggipinto
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There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. -Erma Bombeck
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Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'. -Bing Crosby
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Aren't we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? You know… the birth of Santa. -Bart Simpson
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