Just for you, we’ve collected fifty Christmas quotes from the distant corners of the worldwide web. Add a touch of tradition or a fresh new thought to your text, email, or card this Christmas!
Remember this December, that love weighs more than gold.Josephine Daskam Bacon
Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.Peg Bracken
The world has grown weary through the years, but at Christmas, it is young.Phillips Brooks
Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing, but of reflection.Winston Churchill
Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won’t make it ‘white’.Bing Crosby
![Merry Musings: 50 Christmas Quotes 1 A quote by Charles Dickens, "I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year." The quote is written on top of a shaded image with Christmas gifts](https://www.greetingsisland.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/quoye-christmas-2.png)
![Merry Musings: 50 Christmas Quotes 1 A quote by Charles Dickens, "I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year." The quote is written on top of a shaded image with Christmas gifts](https://www.greetingsisland.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/quoye-christmas-2.png)
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.Charles Dickens
Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.Phyllis Diller
The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.“Elf” – Will Ferrell
It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.W.T. Ellis
Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.B.C. Forbes
Freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin – inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night.John Geddes
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![Merry Musings: 50 Christmas Quotes 2 A mug of Christmas tea with a candy cane. The quote "At Christmas, tea is compulsory. Relatives are optional." by Robert Godden is written on top of the shaded image](https://www.greetingsisland.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/quote-2-2.png)
![Merry Musings: 50 Christmas Quotes 2 A mug of Christmas tea with a candy cane. The quote "At Christmas, tea is compulsory. Relatives are optional." by Robert Godden is written on top of the shaded image](https://www.greetingsisland.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/quote-2-2.png)
At Christmas, tea is compulsory. Relatives are optional.Robert Godden
Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your mouth sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever.”Richelle E. Goodrich
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.Burton Hills
At Christmas, all roads lead home.Marjorie Holmes
![Merry Musings: 50 Christmas Quotes 3 A quote by Bob Hope, "My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others." The quote is written in white text on top of an image with a heart ornament.](https://www.greetingsisland.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/quote-3-1.png)
![Merry Musings: 50 Christmas Quotes 3 A quote by Bob Hope, "My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others." The quote is written in white text on top of an image with a heart ornament.](https://www.greetingsisland.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/quote-3-1.png)
My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others.Bob Hope
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.Washington Irving
A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.Garrison Keillor
The smell of pine needles, spruce and the smell of a Christmas tree – those to me, are the scents of the holidays.Blake Lively
For they traveled by night and they slept by day, for their guide was a beautiful wonderful star.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, ‘Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.’Luke 2:13-14
Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive.Robert Lynd
![Merry Musings: 50 Christmas Quotes 4 A quote by Hamilton Wright Mabie, "Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love." The quote is written in white text on top of a blue shaded photo of pine tree branches covered in snow](https://www.greetingsisland.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/quote-4-1.png)
![Merry Musings: 50 Christmas Quotes 4 A quote by Hamilton Wright Mabie, "Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love." The quote is written in white text on top of a blue shaded photo of pine tree branches covered in snow](https://www.greetingsisland.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/quote-4-1.png)
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.Hamilton Wright Mabie
Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.Janice Maeditere
From home to home, and heart to heart, from one place to another. The warmth and joy of Christmas, brings us closer to each other.Emily Matthews
This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven’s eternal King, of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, our great redemption from above did bring.John Milton
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.Mother Teresa
![Merry Musings: 50 Christmas Quotes 5 A quote by Carol Nelson, "Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home." The quote is written in white text on top of an image of a table where someone is making Christmas cookies.](https://www.greetingsisland.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/quote-5-1.png)
![Merry Musings: 50 Christmas Quotes 5 A quote by Carol Nelson, "Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home." The quote is written in white text on top of an image of a table where someone is making Christmas cookies.](https://www.greetingsisland.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/quote-5-1.png)
Christmas is a time when you get homesick – even when you’re home.Carol Nelson
What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.Agnes M. Pahro
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.Norman Vincent Peale
![Merry Musings: 50 Christmas Quotes 6 Christmas Quotes](https://www.greetingsisland.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/quote-6-2.png)
![Merry Musings: 50 Christmas Quotes 6 Christmas Quotes](https://www.greetingsisland.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/quote-6-2.png)
The Christmas spirit is a spirit of giving and forgiving.James Cash Penney
Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.Pindar
It’s the most wonderful time of the year!Edward Pola and George Wyle
At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.Queen Elizabeth II
Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day.Helen Steiner Rice
![Merry Musings: 50 Christmas Quotes 7 Candy canes in the shape of hearts on the background. The candy canes are red and white. The quote "Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas." is written in white text on top of the image.](https://www.greetingsisland.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/quote-7-1.png)
![Merry Musings: 50 Christmas Quotes 7 Candy canes in the shape of hearts on the background. The candy canes are red and white. The quote "Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas." is written in white text on top of the image.](https://www.greetingsisland.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/quote-7-1.png)
Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.Dale Evans Rogers
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
One of the things that Christmas reminds us is that Jesus Christ was once a child.Hark Herald Sarmiento
Let us keep Christmas beautiful without a thought of greed.Ann Garnett Schultz
Heap on the wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.Sir Walter Scott
Christmas doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas… perhaps… means a little bit more.Dr. Seuss
![Merry Musings: 50 Christmas Quotes 8 Quote by Dr. Alexander Smith. The quote reads "Christmas is the day that holds all time together." The quote is written in white text, in the background there ar e pine cones photographed from a top angle](https://www.greetingsisland.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/quote-8-2.png)
![Merry Musings: 50 Christmas Quotes 8 Quote by Dr. Alexander Smith. The quote reads "Christmas is the day that holds all time together." The quote is written in white text, in the background there ar e pine cones photographed from a top angle](https://www.greetingsisland.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/quote-8-2.png)
Christmas is the day that holds all time together.Dr. Alexander Smith
He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.Roy L. Smith
For it is in giving that we receive.St. Francis of Assisi
Christmas isn’t just a day—it’s a frame of mind.Miracle on 34th Street
Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.Margaret Thatcher
![Merry Musings: 50 Christmas Quotes 9 A quote by Rosie Thomas. The quote reads "Christmas is the day that holds all time together." The quote is written in white text.](https://www.greetingsisland.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/quote-9-2.png)
![Merry Musings: 50 Christmas Quotes 9 A quote by Rosie Thomas. The quote reads "Christmas is the day that holds all time together." The quote is written in white text.](https://www.greetingsisland.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/quote-9-2.png)
Christmas works like glue, it keeps us all sticking together.Rosie Thomas
Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.”Unknown
Christmas: the only time of year you can sit in front of a dead tree eating candy out of socks.Unknown
Peace with God, peace with others, and peace in your own heart.Rick Warren
We are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas time.Laura Ingalls Wilder
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