Merry Christmas Eve!

by Emily


For the Fun:

Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself.
-Francis C. Farley


Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.
-Ken Hubbard

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

-Norman Vincent Peale

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring,--not even a mouse: The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.

-Clement C. Moore

Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money.

-Author Unknown

Christmas is for children. But it is for grown-ups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and a nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chilled hidebound hearts.

-Henry Vaughan

There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them.

-P.J. O'Rourke

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

For What Brings Peace and Hope:

For the spirit of Christmas fulfils the greatest hunger of mankind.

-Loring A. Schuler

The time draws near the birth of Christ: The moon is hid; the night is still; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist.

-Lord Alfred Tennyson

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.

-Luke 2:13-14

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

-Richard Crashaw