Chrismas Quotes

Very gay they were with snow and sleigh-bells, holly-boughs, and garlands, below, and Christmas sunshine in the winter sky above. All faces shone, all voices had a cheery ring, and everybody stepped briskly on errands of good-will. ~Louisa May Alcott, "Seamstress," Work: A Story of Experience, 1873

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. ~Norman Vincent Peale

Christmas is a time when you get homesick — even when you're home. ~Carol Nelson

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. ~Roy L. Smith

I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. ~Charles Dickens

Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year — and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority. ~W.J. Cameron

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

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly. ~Andy Rooney

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home! ~Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers

O child... it is only for thirty-six hours of the three hundred and sixty-five days, that all people remember that they are all brothers and sisters, and those are the hours that we call, therefore, Christmas eve and Christmas day. ~Edward E. Hale, "Christmas Waits in Boston," If, Yes, and Perhaps: Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations, With Some Bits of Fact, 1868  [Originally written for the Boston Daily Advertiser, 1867, Hale recalling a scrap of Mr. Ingham's memoirs. —tεᖇᖇ¡·g]

There has been only one Christmas — the rest are anniversaries. ~W.J. Cameron

'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale;
'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale;
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer
The poor man's heart through half the year.
~Walter Scott

Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves. ~Eric Sevareid

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time. ~Laura Ingalls Wilder

May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through! ~Author Unknown

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. ~Charles Dickens

What is a real friend? Friendship Quotes

1. “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
   – Walter Winchell
2. “If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.”
   – Winnie the Pooh
3. “I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
   – Ernest Hemingway
4. “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”
   – C.S. Lewis
5. “True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.”
   – David Tyson
6. “Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”
   – Washington Irving
7. “There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.”
   – Jim Henson
8. “A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.”
   – Leo Buscaglia
9. “Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.”
   – Thomas J. Watson
10. “You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
    — Dale Carnegie