Below is a list of Christmas-themed quotes. The source is given below each quote.
To make a change from the usual printed messages in store-bought Christmas cards, consider purchasing blank Christmas cards and writing a fitting Christmas quote inside (remember to include the source of the quote). Your recipients will be touched that you have put more effort into their cards!
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
At Christmas play and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year.
– Thomas Tusser
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
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
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
When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things – not the great occasions – give off the greatest glow of happiness.
– Bob Hope
Nothing’s as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.
– Kin Hubbard
May the spirit of Christmas bring you peace,
The gladness of Christmas give you hope,
The warmth of Christmas grant you love.
– Author Unknown
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.
– Shirley Temple
Peace on earth will come to stay,
When we live Christmas every day.
– Helen Steiner Rice
Christmas is the season when you buy this year’s gifts with next year’s money.
– Author Unknown
