Christmas Quotes for 2Peas

Someone started a thread over at 2Peas about your favorite Christmas quotes. Reading them totally put me in the Christmas mood, so I thought I would list them here. There are lots of really great ones here, and quite a few are funny! Merry Christmas!

Love's the thing. The rest is tinsel.

never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. in the eyes of children they are all 30 ft tall---oscar wilde

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other. ~Burton Hillis

Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen. ~Author unknown

If you don't belive in Santa Claus, you'll get underwear for Christmas.

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

And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more. ~ Dr. Seuss

Bah, Humbug!

I will keep Christmas in my heart and honor it all year long

"It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas." -Charles Dickens

"We elves try to stick to the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corns, and syrup." --from the movie Elf

Christmas day will always be, just as long as we have we.

LOVE is what's in the room at Christmas if you stop opening Presents and Listen

Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in this world are the things we can't see. ~The Conductor (Polar Express)

Dickens: "It is good to be children sometimes and never better than at Christmas when its mighty founder was a child himself."

I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet the words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

May you have the gladness of Christmas which is hope; The spirit of Christmas which is peace; The heart of Christmas which is love. ~Ada V. Hendricks

Jesus is the reason for the CHRISTmas season

"You'll shoot your eyes out!" From a Christmas Story

"Christmas wouldn't be the same if the malls were any hooter, I mean hotter than they are right now." National Lampoon's Christmas

"Can I talk into your necklace" Elf

"Clark are we @ the airport? Don't throw me down Clark" National Lampoons again

Snowmen melt....memories last.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. ~Norman Vincent Peale

Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home. ~Carol Nelson

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. ~Roy L. Smith

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind. ~Mary Ellen Chase

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

Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year - and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority. ~W.J. Cameron

There has been only one Christmas - the rest are anniversaries. ~W.J. Cameron

Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it "white".--Bing Crosby

"Let's all be naughty and save Santa the trip." --Gary Allan

Santa is very jolly because he knows where all the bad girls live. ~ Dennis Miller