Christmas quotations

Many scrapping titles around Christmas are song lyrics...

• White Christmas (if we're that lucky!)
• Have yourself a merry little Christmas
• Joy to the World
• All I want for Christmas is...
• It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
• Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree
• Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
• The Night before Christmas
  

Here are some alternative Christmas quotations:

At Christmas play and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year.
- Thomas Tusser

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.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Love's Labour Lost'

Peace on earth will come to stay,
When we live Christmas every day.
- Helen Steiner Rice

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.
- Peg Bracken

This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.
- Taylor Caldwell (1900-1985)

It is the personal thoughtfulness, the warm human awareness, the reaching out of the self to one's fellow man that makes giving worthy of the Christmas spirit.
- Isabel Currier

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
- Charles Dickens (1812-1870), 'A Christmas Carol'

It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.
- W. T. Ellis

From home to home, and heart to heart,
from one place to another.
The warmth and joy of Christmas,
brings us closer to each other.
- Emily Matthews

At Christmas, all roads lead home.
- Marjorie Holmes

It comes every year and will go on forever. And along with Christmas belong the keepsakes and the customs. Those humble, everyday things a mother clings to, and ponders, like Mary in the secret spaces of her heart.
- Marjorie Holmes

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
- Calvin Coolidge

The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others' burdens, easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.
- W. C. Jones

Heap on the wood! - the wind is chill;
But let it whistle as it will,
We'll keep our Christmas merry still.
- Sir Walter Scott

My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?
- Bob Hope