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A selection of humorous and intelligent classic quotes related to Christmas, ideal for posting to Facebook status updates around Christmas time…

“Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given–when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.”
~ Joan Winmill Brown, American author and editor.

“This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.”
~ Taylor Caldwell (1900-1985), English novelist.

“Remember, if Christmas isn’t found in your heart, you won’t find it under a tree.”
~ Charlotte Carpenter.

“There are no strangers on Christmas Eve.”
~ Adele Comandini and Edward Sutherland. Michael O’Brien (Charles Winninger), Beyond Tomorrow, after proposing that the partners invite three strangers to dinner (1940).

“To the American People: Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. If we think on these things, there will be born in us a Savior and over us will shine a star sending its gleam of hope to the world.”
~ Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), American president. Presidential message (December 25, 1927).

“Christmas, in its final essence, is for grown people who have forgotten what children know. Christmas is for whoever is old enough to have denied the unquenchable spirit of man.”
~ Margaret Cousins (1905- ), senior editor Doubleday Publishing Company.

“Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won’t make it ‘white’.”
~ Bing Crosby (1904-1977), American singer and film actor.

“It is the personal thoughtfulness, the warm human awareness, the reaching out of the self to one’s fellow man that makes giving worthy of the Christmas spirit.”
~ Isabel Currier.

“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
~ Charles Dickens (1812-1870), English author. From ‘A Christmas Carol’.

“Something about an old-fashioned Christmas is hard to forget.”
~ Hugh Downs (1921- ), American newscaster.

“They err who thinks Santa Claus comes down through the chimney; he really enters through the heart.”
~ Mrs. Paul M. Ell.

“It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.”
~ W. T. Ellis

“Christmas, my child, is love in action.”
~ Dale Evans (1912-2001), American film actress, singer and songwriter. Wife of Roy Rogers.

“Do give books – religious or otherwise – for Christmas. They’re never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.”
~ Lenore Hershey

“At Christmas, all roads lead home.”
~ Marjorie Holmes, American writer.

“It comes every year and will go on forever. And along with Christmas belong the keepsakes and the customs. Those humble, everyday things a mother clings to, and ponders, like Mary in the secret spaces of her heart.”
~ Marjorie Holmes, American writer.

“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, American film actor and comedian.

“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, American film actor and comedian.

“Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.”
~ Washington Irving (1783-1859), American short-story writer and essayist.

“The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others’ burdens, easing other’s loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.”
~ W. C. Jones

“A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.”
~ Garrison Keillor (1942-), American author. ‘Exiles,’ Leaving Home (1987).

“Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive.”
~ Robert Lynd (1892-1970), American sociologist.

“Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart…filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.”
~ Bess Streeter Aldrich (1881-1954), American author, ‘Song of Years’.

“Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.”
~ Oren Arnold

“I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays–let them overtake me unexpectedly–waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself: ‘Why this is Christmas Day!’”
~ Ray Stannard Baker, pseud. David Grayson (1870-1946), American author, journalist.

“The perfect Christmas tree? All Christmas trees are perfect!”
~ Charles N. Barnard, American author, travel writer.

“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”
~ Hamilton Wright Mabie (1845-1916), American author, essayist and critic.

“I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.”
~ Harlan Miller

“Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence.”
~ Joan Mills

“Christmas is, of course, the time to be home – in heart as well as body.”
~ Garry Moore

“What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.”
~ Agnes M. Pahro

“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.”
~ Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993), American Protestant religious leader, author.

“I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world.”
~ Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993), American Protestant religious leader, author.

“Mankind is a great, an immense family… This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.”
~ Pope John XXIII

“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 (1919-), American writer, producer, humorist.

“The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature.”
~ Andy Rooney (1919-), American writer, producer, humorist.

“Christmas–that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance–a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.”
~ Augusta E. Rundell

“Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.”
~ Charles Schulz (1922-2000), American cartoonist ‘Peanuts’.

“As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is.”
~ Eric Sevareid (1912-1992), American newscaster.

“Maybe Christmas,” he thought, “doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas… perhaps… means a little bit more.”
~ Dr. Seuss (1904-1991), American author of children’s books. From ‘How The Grinch Stole Christmas’.

“Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves.”
~ Eric Sevareid (1912-1992), American newscaster.

“Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.”
~ Ralph Sockman (1889-1970), American religious leader.

“He who has no Christmas in his heart will never find Christmas under a tree.”
~ Sunshine Magazine

“Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.”
~ Margaret Thatcher (1925- ), English political leader.

“At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.”
~ Thomas Tusser (c. 1515-1580), author ‘The Farmer’s Daily Diet’.

“Christmas is for children. But it is for grownups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide-bound hearts.”
~ Lenora Mattingly Weber (1895-1971), American author.
A selection of classic quotes ideal for Facebook status updates…

“Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance – each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.”
~ Deborah Whipp (1964-), web designer.

“Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.”
~ Larry Wilde, author ‘The Merry Book of Christmas’.

“Which Christmas is the most vivid to me? It’s always the next Christmas.”
~ Joanne Woodward (1930- ), American film actress.

 

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50 Classic quotes ideal for Facebook status updates.

1. You can do anything, but not everything.
—David Allen

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2. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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3. The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.
—Unknown Author

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4. You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
—Wayne Gretzky

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5. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
—Ambrose Redmoon

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6. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
—Gandhi

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7. When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.
—Lin-Chi

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8. The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
—A. A. Milne

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9. To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
—Abraham Maslow

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10. We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
—Aristotle

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11. A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
—Baltasar Gracian

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12. Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
—Basho

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13. An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously.
—Charles F. Kettering

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14. Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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15. What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
—John Ruskin

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16. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.
—Marcel Proust

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17. Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching
—Unknown Author

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18. Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.
—Virgil Garnett Thomson

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19. Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
—Will Rogers

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20. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
—Zig Ziglar

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Funny Quotes
21. Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
—John Wilmot

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22. What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.
—Oscar Levant

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23. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
—Oscar Wilde

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24. I’ve gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
—New York City detective

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25. When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.
—Norm Crosby

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26. Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
—Kurt Vonnegut

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27. Just the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
—Carl Sagan

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28. My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
—Jean Rostand

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29. Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
—Lily Tomlin

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30. I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.
—Richard Lewis

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31. We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.
—Robert Wilensky

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32. If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
—Scott Adams

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33. If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.
—Anon

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34. When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I’m beginning to believe it.
—Clarence Darrow

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35. Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.
—Cullen Hightower

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36. There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
—Cyril Connolly

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37. There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
—Dick Cavett

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38. All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
—H. L. Mencken

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39. I don’t mind what Congress does, as long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
—Victor Hugo

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40. I took a speed reading course and read ‘War and Peace’ in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
—Woody Allen

41. The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.
—Albert Einstein

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42. Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
—André Gide

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43. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
—Aristotle

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44. I’d rather live with a good question than a bad answer.
—Aryeh Frimer

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45. We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong.
—Bill Vaughan

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46. I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.
—Blaise Pascal

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47. Don’t ever wrestle with a pig. You’ll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it.
—Cale Yarborough

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48. Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
—Lao-Tze
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49. Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
—Christopher Hampton

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50. Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
—Cyril Connolly