One has lived long enough if one has had time to win the love of women and the esteem of men.
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.
I love you much less than my God, but much more than myself.
Even the most elevated psychological understanding is not a loving understanding.
If of thy talons, Love, be quit I may,
I deem it scarce can be
But other fangs I may elude for aye.
Spurned pity can turn into cruelty just as spurned love turns into hate.
That more would he serve, if life
Were not so short for love so long.