Christmas Verses, Sayings and Greetings

Christmas is a magical time of year in so many ways. And while many of the traditions have become commercialized, one thing you can do each year to preserve that special, personal touch is to make the holiday cards you send out to friends and family. Here are some sayings that could either go on the inside of your card or maybe as a centerpiece of the front design


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. Rundel

Wouldn't life be worth the living Wouldn't dreams be coming true If we kept the Christmas spirit All the whole year through? ~Author Unknown

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, Modern Manners

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young. ~Phillips Brooks

'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet, Could we bestow the gifts we get, And keep the ones we give away, How happy were our Christmas day! ~Carolyn Wells

The message of Christmas is that the visible material world is bound to the invisible spiritual world. ~Author Unknown

If "ifs" and "buts" were candy and nuts, wouldn't it be a Merry Christmas? ~Don Meredith

The Christmas season has come to mean the period when the public plays Santa Claus to the merchants. ~John Andrew Holmes

Christmas is the season when you buy this year's gifts with next year's money. ~Author Unknown

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

Open your presents at Christmastime but be thankful year round for the gifts you receive. ~Lorinda Ruth Lowen

Christmas is for children. But it is for grown-ups 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

At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year ~Thomas Tusser

Keep your Christmas-heart open all the year round. ~Jessica Archmint

Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles. ~Author Unknown

A Christmas candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise at all, But softly gives itself away. ~Eva Logue

Christmas is forever, not for just one day, for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf. The good you do for others is good you do yourself... ~Norman Wesley Brooks, "Let Every Day Be Christmas," 1976

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love! ~Hamilton Wright Mabie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Isn't it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for - I don't know what exactly, but it's something that you don't mind so much not having at other times. ~Kate L. Bosher

For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home. ~W.J. Ronald Tucker

In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it 'Christmas' and went to church; the Jews called it 'Hanukkah' and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say 'Merry Christmas!' or 'Happy Hanukkah!' or (to the atheists) 'Look out for the wall!' ~Dave Barry, "Christmas Shopping: A Survivor's Guide"

Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts. ~Janice Maeditere


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