Christmas Quotes
Most of the quotes on this page are not about Christmas at all. We built it from the pages on family, love and gratitude, which is what people tend to want for a card or a toast.
That makes it a long list, ordered by quality rather than by how seasonal each entry feels. If you want something that sounds like Christmas, search for it. If you want something that would be true at any family table, start here.
Love's of itself too sweet; the best of all
Is, when love's honey has a dash of gall.
Let moderation on thy passions wait;
Who loves too much, too much the lov'd will hate.
To set the cause above renown,
To love the game above the prize.
To love and be beloved, this is the good,
Which for most sovereign all the world will prove.
But beauty has wings, and too hastily flies,
And love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.
Ah, better to love in the lowliest cot
Than pine in a palace alone.