Famous Quotes

"Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!"

Phyllis McGinley on Christmas

More quotes about Christmas

• "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 on Christmas

• "He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree."

  Roy L. Smith on Christmas

• "The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live."

  George Carlin on Christmas

• "Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store."

  Dr. Seuss on Christmas

• "A good conscience is a continual Christmas."

  Benjamin Franklin on Christmas

More quotes by Phyllis McGinley

• "Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone."

• "Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man."

• "Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful."

• "Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure."

• "In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime."