Fun Holiday Quotes
It is amazing how simple quotes can provide insightful, fun and complex ideas.
Here are some quotes fun for the holiday season. Over 50 fun holiday classes of persons from Phyllis Diller and Andy Rooney to Charles Dickens and John Lennon. Funny and insightful reflections about Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and atheism to traditions, spirituality and family. For more quotes on topics ranging from love, happiness and wisdom and information on the inspirational public art project dialog, please see: http://www.DialogueProject.net. Enjoy!
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QUOTES OF HOLIDAYS 2007
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Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present memory. What I do not like about office parties to Christmas is looking for a job the next day.
(Phyllis Diller)
Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true feelings without feeling embarrassed and may be stupid.
(Francis C. Farley)
The three stages of the life of a man:
1. He believes in Santa Claus
2. He does not believe Santa Claus.
3. He is Santa Claus.
(Without the quote)
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep all year.
(Charles Dickens)
Happy, Happy Christmas, which can lead us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and passenger to return to their homes and at home alone!
(Charles Dickens)
When the Christmas bells are swinging above the fields snow
We hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago,
And etched on vacant places
Are half-Forgotten Faces
Of friends, we used to cherish and love we knew.
(Ella Wheeler Wilcox, fantasies Christmas Poems of Power)
What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. This is a fervent wish that every cup is full of rich May blessings and eternal, and that all roads may lead to peace.
(Agnes M. Pharo)
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be rich in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
(Calvin Coolidge)
A beautiful thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a storm, and we all go together.
(Garrison Keillor)
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
(Hamilton Wright Mabie)
May This Festival of Lights bring blessings upon you and all your loved ones.
May the lights of Hanukkah usher in a better world for all humanity.
May Love & Light fill your home and heart at Hanukkah.
May happiness fill your home as you celebrate the festival of lights.
(Without the quote)
New Year's Day is the anniversary of every man.
(Charles Lamb)
Twas the night before Christmas, when all home
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse:
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicolas soon would be there.
(Clement C. Moore)
If you want to make peace, you do not talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
(Moshe Dayan)
How many families whose members were dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggles of life are then met, and meet again in that happy state of companionship and mutual goodwill, which is a source of joy so pure and unmixed, and one way incompatible with the cares and sorrows of the world that the religious belief of most civilized nations, and traditions of coarse wild toughest, as the number among the first joys of a future condition of existence, provided for the blessed and happy!
(Charles Dickens)
I wish you a Merry Christmas
And a Happy New Year;
A pocket full of money
And a cellar full of beer,
And a fat pig
To take throughout the year.
(Old English Song)
At Christmas I no more desire a rose
That want a snow still joy May's newfangled;
But like of each thing that in season grows.
(William Shakespeare)
"Perhaps Christmas, he thought, not from a store. Maybe Christmas … maybe … means a little more. "
(Theodor Seuss Geisel, "The Grinch ")
The best Christmas trees are very close to transcend nature.
(Andy Rooney)
Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. As a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. For each child, a good example. For you, respect.
(Oren Arnold)
Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder that drew most of our pregnant human faculty, because she was born our art, our science, our religion.
(Ralph Sockman)
Which Christmas is strongest for me? It's always the next Christmas.
(Joanne Woodward)
When we recall Christmas past, there is generally that the simplest things – not the great occasions – give off the greatest glow of happiness.
(Bob Hope)
The rooms were very quiet while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces and Christmas greetings.
(Louisa May Alcott)
Something about an old Christmas is hard to forget.
(Hugh Downs)
Christmas is time for festivities, family and friends;
It is a season of generosity, joy and gratitude.
(William Arthur Ward)
Over there was the little boy who approached Santa in a department store with a long list of demands. He wanted a bicycle and a sled, a series of chemicals, a costume cowboy, a set of trains, a baseball glove and roller skates.
"It's a fairly long list," Santa said sternly. "I 'll have to check my book and see if you were a good boy. "
"No," Young said quickly. "Never Mind Control. I'll just take the roller skates.
(Without the quote)
Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, that gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us adults to fully enjoy their pleasures without reserve.
(Sir Winston Churchill)
Christmas is a season. It is feeling.
(Edna Ferber)
Calvin: Well. I decided that I believe in Father Christmas
no matter how he looks ridiculous.
Hobbes: What convinced you?
Calvin: A simple risk analysis. I want presents. Lots of gifts.
Why risk not to get on a question of belief?
Damn, I'm going to believe whatever they want.
(Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes)
The joy of cheer the lives of others, carrying loads of each, easing other loads and supplanting empty heart and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Holidays.
(WC Jones)
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give your life its highest beauty and joy.
(Francis Pharcellus Church, responding to a letter to the New York Sun
in 1897 from 8-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon asked: "Is there a Santa Claus")
The holiest of holidays are those
Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;
Secret Anniversaries of the heart.
(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Christmas at my house is always at least six or seven times more pleasant than anywhere else. We start drinking early. And while everyone else is seeing only one Santa Claus, we have saw six or seven years.
(WC Fields)
New Year's resolutions is something that goes in one and other.
(Without the quote)
In the words of language last year belong to last year
And the words of the next year until another voice.
And to end is make a start.
(TS Eliot, Little Gidding)
Christmas-covering the magic that wraps around us, that something as intangible it's like a perfume. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas in May is a holiday, or prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance, a day when we think everything we've ever loved.
(Augusta E. Rundel)
The merry family gatherings-The old, very young; The so strangely beautiful, they blend hymns sung. For Christmas is tradition time Traditions that recall the precious memories Over the years, the identity of all.
(Helen Lowrie Marshall)
No, Virginia, there is no Santa Claus. But important lessons and a sweet tale that becomes the heart of the pleasure of children to live at least until our imagination creates something even better.
Your willingness to learn is wonderful! Have you ever picked up a penny lost, and found that it is a quarter? Santa is like that, a thousand times. No, there is no imagination outside of Santa. But why you said about him is much better than if was really real.
Santa is a fantasy player, full of hope and happiness to invite you on the difficult path to adulthood true. Yes, it embodies the goodwill and generosity and inspires children everywhere to appreciate the difference between Naughty and Nice. But there is so much more than you and friends are now glimpse, hidden behind knowing wink to the new.
(Greg Perkins, The Objectivist Center)
The Most Texans think Hanukkah is some sort of duck call.
(Richard Lewis)
In the past it has been called the period Christmas: Christians called it 'Christmas' and went to church, the Jews called it "Hanukkah" and went to synagogue; atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say 'Merry Christmas! or "Happy Hanukkah! or (for atheists) "Look at wall!
(Dave Barry)
Oh! top, top, top,
I did it with clay;
Oh, top, top, top,
Now dreidel I shall play.
(Without the quote)
When I realized that we [Jews] have something better [that the traditions of Christmas]. We have the fire. Think about it. The Spiel whole Hanukkah is lighting the menorah to commemorate the miracle of the lamp oil that lasted eight days. Little children, as I have been given matches and told by candlelight. I remember standing mesmerized in front of the flames as my mother and my father gave us our nightly gifts. It felt so dangerous. And in my book, just like rock beats scissors, danger beats flashy.
(Barbara Rushkoff)
At three years, gave this reaction to his holiday dinner: "I do not like turkey, but I like the bread he ate."
(Without the quote)
While we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, made in December by the weather, it is worth remembering that there are people in our lives that are worth this complication, and those to whom we apply the same thing.
(Donald E. Westlake)
One good thing about Christmas shopping, you harden for sales in January.
(Grace Kriley)
A holiday candle is a beautiful thing, it makes no noise at all, but softly gives itself away, while quite unselfish, it grows small.
(Eva K. Logue)
If I were a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life must be taken seriously and that the days of Christmas with children is one of the few opportunities which men become entirely alive.
(Robert Lynd)
Christmas is the keeping place for memories of our innocence.
(Joan Mills)
One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas Day. Do not clean too fast.
(Andy Rooney)
What you call people who are afraid of Santa Claus? Claustrophobic.
(Without the quote)
What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage, for now, hope for the future. This is a fervent wish that every cup is overflowing May rich blessings and eternal and that every path may lead to peace.
(Agnes M. Pahro)
The [Kwanzaa] holiday, will of necessity be engaged as an old and living cultural tradition which reflects the best of African thought and practice in its reaffirmation of the dignity of the human person in community and culture, the well-being of family and community, the integrity of the environment and our kinship with it, and the resource rich and meaning culture of a people.
(Dr. Maulana Karenga)
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. My mother took me to see in a department store and he asked me for my autograph.
(Shirley Temple)
Whatever the pain of being lost among the years keep Christmas still a shining thing: Whatever doubts assail us, or what fears, Let us close one day, recalling his sense for the emotional heart of men. Let us return to our childlike faith again.
(Grace Noll Crowell)
One thing that women do not want to be in their shoes on Christmas morning, it is their husband.
(Joan Rivers)
I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas
with a note on say, toys not included.
(Bernard Manning)
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, being rich in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
(Calvin Coolidge)
And in our world of plenty
We can spread a smile of joy
Throw your arms around the world
At Christmas time.
(Bob Geldof and Midge Ure)
And So This Is Christmas;
And What Have We Done?
From one year to another;
A New One Just Begun;
And so happy Christmas;
I Hope You Have Fun;
The near and Dear Ones;
The old and young.
(John Lennon)
So stick up ivy and berries, then restore the heathen ways, Green Spring remind you if this great day denies the thing, and mortify the earth, and everything, but your wild revels, and loose room.
(Henry Vaughan)
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About the Author
Mike Garibaldi Frick is the social artist behind the nationally touring public art project, Dialogue. Dialogue consists of nine large screens covered with inspiring quotes. More quotations (on subjects such as life, wisdom, community, love and happiness) and information on this inspiring public art installation can be found at:
http://www.DialogueBook.com
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