| "christmas The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given--when christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes." »Joan Winmill Brown |
| "I sometimes think we expect too much of christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays--let them overtake me unexpectedly--waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself Why this is christmas Day" »David Grayson |
| "'Out upon merry christmas What's christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer... If I could work my will,' said Scrooge indignantly, 'every idiot who goes about with 'Merry christmas' upon his lips should be boiled with his won pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should'" »Charles Dickens |
| "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 |
| "It is christmas in the heart that puts christmas in the air." »W. T. Ellis |
| "The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "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. Rundell |
| "A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows Love can erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die You hope you've found that special rose, 'Cause you love and care for the one you chose." »Rob Cella |
| "christmas night, stars shine bright, and all the angels are singing. 'The Son of God is Born' Little child, holy child, how I want to be near you, this blessed christmas night." »Garry Gamble |
| "Love came down at christmas Love all lovely, love divine Love was born at christmas, Stars and angels gave the sign." »Christina Georgina Rossetti |
| "He who wants a rose must respect the thorn." »Persian Proverb |
| "What's in a name That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet." »William Shakespeare |
| "The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose." »Heda Bejar |
| "There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns." »Pilpay |
| "I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys. THE BELOVED." »Song of Songs 21 Bible |
| "I will honor christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year." »Charles Dickens |
| "True friendship is like a rose. We can't realize it's beauty until it fades." »Unknown |
| "A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom." »Chinese Proverb |
| "A merry christmas to everybody A happy New Year to all the world" »Charles Dickens |
| "If Pete rose brings the Reds in first, they ought to bronze him and put him in cement." »Jerry Coleman |
| "An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup." »H.L. Mencken |
| "...it was always said of him Scrooge that he knew how to keep christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us" »Charles Dickens |
| "Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo." »Don Marquis |
| "The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot." »Salvador Dali |
| "Do give books - religious or otherwise - for christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal." »Lenore Hershey |
| "Have you ever seen a donkey smelling a beautiful rose? Donkeys aren't interested in roses, they like thorn bushes or watermelon rinds!" »Mehmet Murat ildan |
| "In saffron-colored mantle, from the tides of ocean rose the morning to bring light to gods and men." »Homer |
| "In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be." »Hubert Humphrey |
| "christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart." »Washington Irving |
| "'A merry christmas, uncle God save you' cried a cheerful voice. 'Bah' said Scrooge. 'Humbug'" »Charles Dickens |
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