Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day.

—Helen Steiner Rice

Christmas ... is not an eternal event at all, but a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart.

—Freya Stark

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

A Christmas candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise at all, But softly gives itself away; While quite unselfish, it grows small.

—Eva K. Logue

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.

—Burton Hillis

Isn’t it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for — I don’t know what exactly, but it’s something that you don’t mind so much not having at other times.

—Kate L. Bosher

Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer.... Who’d have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?

—Bill Watterson

Calvin & Hobbes

Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered. What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.

–Phyllis Diller

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

—G.K. Chesterton

I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.

—E.M. Forster

To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year.

—E.B. White

And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled ‘till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store? What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more?

—Dr Seuss