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).

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

"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 Lynd

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
- Frank McKinney Hubbard

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

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.
- Larry Wilde, The Merry Book of Christmas

Eat chestnuts. Lots of them. It's Christmas.
- Stuart Brown

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.
- Bernard Manning

Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year. - P.J. O'Rourke

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

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
- Erma Bombeck - (1927-1996), American author and humorist.

Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal."
- Lenore Hershey

"From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it."
- Katharine Whitehorn

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.

Christmas at my house is always at least six or seven times more pleasant than anywhere else. We start drinking early. And while everyone else is seeing only one Santa Claus, we'll be seeing six or seven.
- W.C. Fields

Party on People. Have a mince pie for me. Stuart

Copyright - Stuart Brown