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1.“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller (Christmas Quotes)

“Your children need your presence more than your presents.” — Jesse Jackson

3. ‘One can never have enough socks,’ said Dumbledore. ‘Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn’t get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.’” — J. K. Rowling

4. “Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling.” —Edna Ferber (Christmas Quotes)

5. “And so this is Christmas… what have you done?” — John Lennon

6. “Joy to the world, the Lord has come, let earth receive her King.” – “Joy to the World”

7. “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

“A joy that is shared is a joy made double.” — John Roy

9. “Walking in a winter wonderland.” – “Winter Wonderland”

10. “May you never be too grown up to search the skies on Christmas Eve.”

11. “Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.” — Dr. Seuss (Christmas Quotes)

12. “I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” – Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

13. “Christmas works like glue. It keeps us all sticking together.” — Rosie Thomas

14. “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

15. “Love the giver more than the gift.” — Brigham Young

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16. “Some Christmas tree ornaments do a lot more than glitter and glow, they represent a gift of love given a long time ago.” – Tom Baker

17. “If you want to experience the true meaning of Christmas, give something to someone who can offer nothing in return.” ― Toni Sorenson (Christmas Quotes)

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“The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood.” – Richard Paul Evans

19. “Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality.” – Washington Irving (Christmas Quotes)

20. “The thing about Christmas is that it almost doesn’t matter what mood you’re in, or what kind of year you’ve had–it’s a fresh start.” – Kelly Clarkson

21. “I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.” – Fred Rogers

22. “I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence, and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.” – Hillary Scott

23. “T’was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.” – Clement Clarke Moore

24. “I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.” – Shirley Temple

25. “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

26. “Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas time.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder

27. “Aren’t we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa.” — Bart Simpson (Christmas Quotes)

28. “It’s true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you’ll find you’ve created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.” – Caroline Kennedy

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“Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.” — It’s a Wonderful Life

30. “The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much.” – Henry David Thoreau

31. “Christmas can’t be bought from a store. Maybe Christmas means a little bit more.” — Dr.Seuss (Christmas Quotes)

32. “Christmas, to me, is as many people as possible happy.” – Tupac Shakur

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33. “May your days be merry and bright.” — White Christmas

34. “We count down the days just to experience it nearly exactly as we always have. It is so comfortable, familiar, and perfectly nostalgic that, frankly, we have no desire to improve upon it at all.” – Joanna Gaines

35. “My brother, little sister and I decorate the tree together, and every year we fight over who gets to hang our handmade childhood decorations.” — Carly Rae Jepsen

36. ”Christmas and the holidays are the season of giving. It’s a time when people are more kind and open-hearted.” — Gisele Bundchen

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“There’s a certain magic that comes with the very first snow. For when the first snow is also a Christmas snow, well, something wonderful is bound to happen.” — Frosty the Snowman

38. “Even as an adult, I still find it hard to sleep on Christmas eve.” – Carrie Latet

39. “Don’t get your tinsel in a tangle.” — Unknown (Christmas Quotes)

40. “May your hearth be warm, your holidays grand, and your heart held gently in the good Lord’s hand.” — Unknown

41. “As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is.” – Eric Sevareid

42. “Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.” – Charles M. Schulz

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“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!” ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

44. “Christmas to me is as many people as possible happy.” — Tupac Shakur

45. “God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If He gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.” — Pope Francis

46. “Christmas Eve will find me, where the lovelight gleams. I’ll be home for Christmas, if only in my dreams.” – Kim Gannon and Walter Kent, “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” (Christmas Quotes)

47. “Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can’t see.” — The Polar Express

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“Peace on earth will come to stay when we live Christmas every day.”– Helen Steiner Rice

49. “Oh the weather outside is frightful,
But the fire is so delightful,
And since we’ve no place to go,
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.” —“Let it Snow” (Christmas Quotes)

50. “Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.”– Margaret Thatcher

51. “Let us keep Christmas beautiful without a thought of greed.” — Ann Garnett Schultz

52. “The joy of brightening other lives becomes for us the magic of the holidays.” – W. C. Jones

53. “Christmas isn’t just a day—it’s a frame of mind.” — Miracle on 34th Street

54. “Christmas magic is silent. You don’t hear it–you feel it. You know it. You believe it.” – Kevin Alan Milne

55. “Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.” — Winston Churchill

56. “Christmas is a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart.” – Freya Stark

57. “At Christmas, play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.” — Thomas Tusser

58. “City sidewalks, busy sidewalks, dressed in holiday style. In the air, there’s a feeling of Christmas.” – Ray Evans, “Silver Bells”

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

60. “Christmas is a together-y sort of holiday.” Winnie the Pooh (Christmas Quotes)

61. “There’s nothing cozier than a Christmas tree all lit up.”― Jenny Han

62. “Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.” — Dale Evans Rogers

63. “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

64. “It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life.” — Nick Hornby (Christmas Quotes)

65. “Freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin–inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night.”– John J. Geddes

66. “Christmas day is the children’s, but the holidays are youth’s dancing-time.” — Booth Tarkington

67. “During the holiday season, in fact, all year long, wrap yourself around another’s presence, not presents.”– Christine E. Szymanski

68. “How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, His precepts!” ― Benjamin Franklin

69. “The mood is right, the spirit’s up. We’re here tonight, and that’s enough. Simply having a wonderful Christmas time.” – Paul McCartney, “Wonderful Christmas Time”

70. “Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you.” ― Steve Maraboli

71. “I’m dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know. Where the treetops glisten, and children listen to hear sleigh bells in the snow.” – Irving Berlin, “White Christmas” (Christmas Quotes)

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“Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmas time.” — Charles Dickens

73. “It’s Christmas Eve. It’s the one night of the year when we all act a little nicer, we smile a little easier, we cheer a little more. For a couple of hours out of the whole year, we are the people that we always hoped we would be.” – Frank Cross

74. “The reality of loving God is loving him like he’s a Superhero who actually saved you from stuff rather than a Santa Claus who merely gave you some stuff.” ― Criss Jami (Christmas Quotes)

75. “The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.” — Burton Hills

76. “Christmas was definitely the best thing ever, even better than a pizza. But instead of all her favorite toppings, Amitola was surrounded by all her favorite people.” ― Aishabella Sheikh

77. “Christmas is the day that holds all time together.” — Alexander Smith

78. “And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and the stars, and the earth with its forests and mountains and oceans—and all that lives and move upon them.” ― Sigrid Undset

79. “The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.” – Will Ferrell, Elf

80. “The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting.” –Louisa May Alcott

81. “Have yourself a merry little Christmas. Let your heart be light. From now on, your troubles will be out of sight.”– Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” (Christmas Quotes)

82. “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

83. “At Christmas, all roads lead home.” – Marjorie Holmes (Christmas Quotes)

84. “He sees you when you’re sleeping, he knows when you’re awake. He knows when you’ve been bad or good, so be good, for goodness sake!” — “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”

85. “I don’t think Christmas is necessarily about things. It’s about being good to one another.” — Carrie Fisher (Christmas Quotes)

86. “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

87. “It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.” – Mother Theresa

88. “Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles.” — Unknown

89. “The holiday season is a perfect time to reflect on our blessings and seek ways to make life better for those around us.”– Anonymous (Christmas Quotes)

90. “Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.” — Ruth Carter Stapleton

91. “We should learn the true Christmas lesson of gentle, thoughtful kindness to those we love and to all we meet in life’s busy ways.” – J. R. Miller

92. “Christmas is not just a time for festivity and merry-making. It is more than that. It is a time for the contemplation of eternal things. The Christmas spirit is a spirit of giving and forgiving.” — J. C. Penney

93. “Mankind is a great, immense family… This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.” ― Pope John XXIII (Christmas Quotes)

94. “Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.” — Phillips Brooks

95. “Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas…perhaps…means a little bit more!” – Theodor Seuss Geisel, How the Grinch Stole Christmas

96. “Baby it’s cold outside.” — Dean Martin (Christmas Quotes)

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“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.”– Norman Vincent Peale (Christmas Quotes)

98. “I believe… I believe… It’s silly, but I believe.” — Miracle on 34th Street

99. “And so I’m offering this simple phrase To kids from one to 92. Although it’s been said many times, many ways, Merry Christmas to you.” – Robert Wells, “The Christmas Song”

100. “’Tis the season to be jolly!” — “Deck the Halls”

101. “Don’t get caught up in the wrapping paper and forget that the gift of the Christmas season simply loves.” – Toni Sorenson (Christmas Quotes)

102. “A good conscience is a continual Christmas.” — Benjamin Franklin

103. “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 (Christmas Quotes)

104. “A Christmas miracle is when your family doesn’t get into a single argument all day.” — Melanie White

105. “Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance — each beautiful, unique, and gone too soon.” – Deborah Whipp

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“May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through!” — Unknown

107. “Christmas now surrounds us, happiness is everywhere. Our hands are busy with many tasks as carols fill the air.”– Shirley Sallay (Christmas Quotes)

108. “You know you’re getting old when Santa starts looking younger.” — Robert Paul

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

110. “Let’s get lit.” — Unknown (Christmas Quotes)

111. “Christmas is forever, not for just one day. For loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away.” – Norman Wesley Brooks

112. “I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way [they] handle these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.”- Maya Angelou

113. “Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable Gift.” – 2 Corinthians 9:15

114. “This is the Christma spirit, as in spirits, booze.”-Michael Scott, “The Office”

115. “What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.” – Agnes M. Pahro (Christmas Quotes)

116. “To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.”-Aristotle

117. “Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.” ―Peg Bracken (Christmas Quotes)

118. “At this time of year, few fights evoke more feelings of cheer and goodwill than the twinkling lights of a Christmas tree.”-Queen Elizabeth II

119. “Just because I cannot see it doesn’t mean I can’t believe it!”-“The Nightmare Before Christmas” (Christmas Quotes)

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“Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your mouth sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever.” –Richelle E. Goodrich

121. “Nothing says holidays like a cheese log.”-Ellen DeGeneres

122. “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

123. “We’re the house that’s playing Christmas music by November 1.”-Jonathan Scott

124. “The world has grown weary through the years, but at Christmas, it is young.”– Phillips Brooks

125. “Christmas is a baby shower that went totally overboard.”-Andy Borowitz

126. “That’s what Christmas memories are made from, they’re not planned, they’re not scheduled, nobody puts them in their blackberry, they just happen.”– Deck the Halls (2006)

127. “As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December’s bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same.”-Donald E. Westlake

128. “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. Randel

129. “What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.”-Phyllis Diller

130. “It’s the most wonderful time of the year. There’ll be much mistletoe-ing, and hearts will be glowing when loved ones are near.”– George Wyle and Eddie Pola, “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year”

131. “Damn! How low can you get, givin’ Kris Kringle a parking ticket on Christmas Eve? What’s next? Rabies shots for the Easter Bunny?”-Santa Claus in ‘Home Alone’ (Christmas Quotes)

132. “Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.”-George Eliot

133. “He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.”– Roy L. Smith

134. “Merry Christmas! If you are reading this from your hiding place in the bathroom, on the back porch, or in your childhood bedroom, because you cannot spend one more minute with your relatives, this is totally fine. You are doing great. You have built a life that works for you, and tomorrow, you get to go back to it.”- Emily McDowell

135. “Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”– Hamilton Wright Mabie

136. “Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is, in reality, great, if it is given with affection.”– Pindar (Christmas Quotes)

137. “Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.” ~ Washington Irving

138. “I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” – Charles Dickens

139. “At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year” – Thomas Tusser

140. “Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.” — Thomas S. Monson (Christmas Quotes)