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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.

For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.

The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.

I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.

Roses are reddish_x000D__x000D_Violets are bluish_x000D__x000D_If it weren't for Christmas_x000D__x000D_We'd all be Jewish.

Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.

Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving,and of families united.

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant 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.

Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,_x000D__x000D_Just like the ones I used to know,_x000D__x000D_Where the tree tops glisten_x000D__x000D_And children listen_x000D__x000D_To hear sleigh bells in the snow.

Christmas is not just a day, an event to be observed and speedily forgotten. It is a spirit which should permeate every part of our lives.

It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you...yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand.

There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them.

I hear that in many places something has happened to Christmas; that it is changing from a time of merriment and carefree gaiety to a holiday which is filled with tedium; that many people dread the day and the obligation to give Christmas presents is a nightmare to weary, bored souls; that the children of enlightened parents no longer believe in Santa Claus; that all in all, the effort to be happy and have pleasure makes many honest hearts grow dark with despair instead of beaming with good will and cheerfulness.

Best of all, Christmas means a spirit of love, a time when the love of God _x000D__x000D_and the love of our fellow men _x000D__x000D_should prevail over all hatred and bitterness, _x000D__x000D_a time when our thoughts _x000D__x000D_and deeds and the spirit of our lives manifest the presence of God.

Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind.

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know.

Whatever else be lost among the years, Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing: Whatever doubts assail us, or what fears, Let us hold close one day, remembering Its poignant meaning for the hearts of men. Let us get back our childlike faith again.

Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first. The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world of the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years... Underneath all the bulging bundles is this beating Christmas heart.