Great Christmas Verses For Friends

by allinspiration.com

“Christmas, my child, is love in action.”
– Dale Evans

“The Little Drummer Boy” was playing in the background for what seemed like the third time in a row. I fought off an urge to beat that Little Drummer Boy senseless with his own drumsticks.”
– Dana Reinhardt

“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

“Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures before we turn again to the stern task and the formidable years that lie before us, resolved that, by our sacrifice and daring, these same children shall not be robbed of their inheritance or denied their right to live in a free and decent world.” Winston Churchill Christmas Eve Message, 1941 as printed in “In the Dark Streets Shineth.”
– David McCullough

“On a busy day twenty-two thousand people come to visit Santa, and I was told that it is an elf’s lot to remain merry in the face of torment and adversity. I promised to keep that in mind.”
– David Sedaris

“The only bright spot in the entire evening was the presence of Kevin “Tubby” Matchwell, the eleven-year-old porker who tackled the role of Santa with a beguiling authenticity. The false beard tended to muffle his speech, but they could hear his chafing thighs all the way to the North Pole.”
– David Sedaris

“Christmas doesn’t come from a store, maybe Christmas perhaps means a little bit more….”
– Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas

“He took the Who’s feast, he took the Who pudding, he took the roast beast. He cleaned out that ice box as quick as a flash. Why, the Grinch even took their last can of Who hash.”
– Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch stole Christmas

“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

“If your Birthday is on Christmas day and you’re not Jesus, you should start telling people your birthday is on June 9 or something. Just read up on the traits of a Gemini. Suddenly you’re a multitasker who loves the color yellow. Because not only do you get stuck with them combo gift, you get the combo song. “We wish you a merry Christmas – and happy birthday, Terry – we wish you a merry Christmas – happy birthday, Terry – we wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Ye – Birthday, Terry!”
– Ellen DeGeneres

“From Home to home, and heart to heart, from one place to another. The warmth and joy of Christmas, brings us closer to each other.”
– Emily Matthews

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

“A Christmas candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise at all, But softly gives itself away; While quite unselfish, it grows small.”
– Eva K. Logue

“Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies!”
– Francis Pharcellus Church

“And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths, beyond the stars, just this: that to live without him is the real death, that to die with him the only life?”
– Frederick Buechner, The Magnificent Defeat

“Christmas … is not an eternal event at all, but a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart.”
– Freya Stark

“Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.”
– G.K. Chesterton

“A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.”
– Garrison Keillor, Leaving Home

“The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.”
– George Carlin

“Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable? One symbol, indeed, has obscured all others–the minted round of metal. And one may safely say that, of all the ages since a coin first became the symbol of power, ours is that in which it yields to the majority of its possessors the poorest return in heart’s contentment.”
– George R. Gissing

“Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today’s Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.”
– Gladys Bagg Taber

“Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling.”
– Graham Greene, Travels with My Aunt

“No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That’s the only way to keep the roads clear.”
– Greg Kincaid

“O Christmas Sun! What holy task is thine! To fold a world in the embrace of God!”
– Guy Wetmore Carryl

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

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

“Then she saw a star fall, leaving behind it a bright streak of fire. “Someone is dying,” thought the little girl, for her old grandmother, the only one who had ever loved her, and who was now dead, had told her that when a star falls, a soul was going up to God.”
– Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match Girl

“One of the things that Christmas reminds us is that Jesus Christ was once a child.”
– Hark Herald Sarmiento

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

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