christmas card sayings


There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
- Erma Bombeck (I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression)

And the angel said unto them, “Fear not! For, behold,
I bring you tidings of great joy, Which shall be to all people.

“For unto you is born this day in the city of David A Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.

And this shall be a sign unto you: Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, Lying in a manger.
- St. Luke ii. 10-12

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 a melody that would last forever.
- Bess Streeter Aldrich

Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day.
- Helen Steiner Rice

Christmas is a race to see which gives out first – your money or your feet.
- Unknown

I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all.
And that, of course, is the message of Christmas.
We are never aone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest,
the word seemingly most indifferent.
For this is still the time God chooses.
- Taylor Caldwell

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

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree:
the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
- Burton Hillis (Better Homes and Gardens)

Whatever else be lost among the years, Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing:
Whatever doubts assail us, or what fears, Let us hold close one day,
remembering Its poignant meaning for the hearts of men. Let us get back our childlike faith again.
- Grace Noll Crowell

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

Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest thing in the world -
stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death -
and that the blessed life which began in Bethlehem nineteen hundred years ago
is the image and brightness of the Eternal Love? Then you can keep Christmas.
- Henry Van Dyke

The magi, as you know, were wise men – wonderfuly wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger.
They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.
- O. Henry

I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should.
We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday -
the longer, the better – from the great boarding school where we are forever working
at our arithmetical slates, to take, and give a rest.
- Charles Dickens

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

Why does Scrooge love Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer? Because every buck is dear to him
- Unknown

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. Pharo

Jennifer Bofinger, media spokeswoman for the animal rights group
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said despite the shabby treatment of deer in general,
her organization has not received any complaints about how Santa Claus treats his reindeer.
- Los Angeles (LA) Times

Many banks have a new kind of Christmas club in operation.
The new club helps you save money to pay for last year’s gifts.
- Unknown

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days,
recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler
back to his own fireside and quiet home!
- Charles Dickens

“Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.”
Larry Wilde

“Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.”
Johnny Carson

“Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in the Holiday Season, that very special time of year when we join with our loved ones in sharing centuries-old traditions such as trying to find a parking space at the mall. We traditionally do this in my family by driving around the parking lot until we see a shopper emerge from the mall, then we follow her, in very much the same spirit as the Three Wise Men, who 2,000 years ago followed a star, week after week, until it led them to a parking space.”
Dave Barry

“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

“Many banks have a new kind of Christmas club in operation. The new club helps you save money to pay for last year’s gifts.”
Anonymous

“The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn’t for any religious reasons. They couldn’t find three wise men and a virgin.”
Jay Leno

“Why is Christmas just like a day at the office? You do all the work and the fat guy with the suit gets all the credit.”
Anonymous

“Christmas is a race to see which gives out first – your money or your feet.”
Anonymous

“Did you ever notice that life seems to follow certain patterns? Like I noticed that every year around this time, I hear Christmas music.”
Tom Sims

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

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

8. “Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”
~ Hamilton Wright Mabi

9. “I have always thought of Christmas as a good time; a kind, forgiving, generous, pleasant time; a time when men and women seem to open their hearts freely, and so I say, God bless Christmas!”
~ Charles Dickens

10. “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

11. “Love came down at Christmas; love all lovely, love divine; love was born at Christmas, stars and angels gave the sign.”
~ Christina G. Rossetti

12. “Where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door the dark night wakes – the glory breaks, Christmas comes once more.”
– Phillips Brooks

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

2. “If there is no joyous way to give a festive gift, give love away.”
~ Unknown

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

4. “The magi, as you know, were wise men – wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They
invented the art of giving Christmas presents.”
~ O. Henry

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

I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become… but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.  ~May Sarton

Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty-fifth of this month, that the Divinest Heart that ever walked the earth was born on that day; and then smile and enjoy yourselves for the rest of it; for mirth is also of Heaven’s making.  ~Leigh Hunt

Great little One! whose all-embracing birth
Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.
~Richard Crashaw

I do like Christmas on the whole…. In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill.  But it is clumsier every year.  ~E.M. Forster

At Christmas
A man is at his finest towards the finish of the year;
He is almost what he should be when the Christmas season’s here;
Then he’s thinking more of others than he’s thought the months before,
And the laughter of his children is a joy worth toiling for.
He is less a selfish creature than at any other time;
When the Christmas spirit rules him he comes close to the sublime…
~Edgar Guest


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

A Christmas gambol oft could cheer
The poor man’s heart through half the year.
~Walter Scott

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

May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through!  ~Author Unknown

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.  ~Charles Dickens

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