Famous Quotes

"There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas."

Robert Staughton Lynd 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 Robert Staughton Lynd

• "Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen."

• "Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long."

• "Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with."

• "One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge."

• "Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left."