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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.

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Most quoted on christmas:

I was appalled that the San Francisco ethic didn't mushroom and envelope the whole world into this loving community of acid freaks. I was very naive.

Grace Slick The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations (1987)

Hail Guest! We ask not what thou art:
If Friend, we greet thee, hand and heart;
If Stranger, such no longer be;
If Foe, our love shall conquer thee.

Arthur Guiterman The Mirthful Lyre (1918)

We are not ready to fight because we love fighting. We are ready to fight because we are worth fighting for.

Zoé Samudzi

Come, let us go forth to the mead,
Let us see how the primroses spring;
We'll lodge in some village on Tweed,
And love, where the feathered folks sing.

Vincent Bourne

I am not at all surprised that the passion has been declared an excess. And indeed it is an excess of love of Jesus Christ.

Claude La Colombière

How much do I love that noble man
More than I could tell with words
I fear though he'll remain alone
With a holy halo of his own.

Albert Einstein Poem by Einstein on Spinoza (1920)

I'm going on believing and knowing that God is alive. You see, as long as love is around, God is alive. As long as justice is around, God is alive.

Martin Luther King Jr. Why Jesus Called A Man A Fool (1967)

While loving glory so much how can you persist in a plan which will cause you to lose it?

Voltaire

Though you're a whole world, Rome, still, without Love,
The world isn't the world, and Rome can't be Rome.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Roman Elegies (1789)

I LOVED her! ay, I would have given
A death-bed certainty of heaven
If I had thought it could confer
The least of happiness on her!

Letitia Elizabeth Landon The Troubadour (1825)

And all o'er heaven is that clear blue
The stars so love to wander through.
They're rising from the silent deep,
Like bright eyes opening after sleep.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon The Venetian Bracelet (1829)

Ah! love and song are but a dream,
A flower's faint shade on life's dark stream.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

The prayer is the standard of Islam. Whosoever loves prayers, and observes their limits, timings and methods, is a true believer.

Muhammad

Who has not found the heaven below
Will fail of it above.
God's residence is next to mine,
His furniture is love.

Emily Dickinson

If the man of power were to take a message of absolute honesty and absolute love seriously he would lose his power, or would divest himself of it.

Reinhold Niebuhr Christianity and Power Politics (1936)

God is love, the parson whined.
Yes, and is he also blind?

T. H. White

God is love, the bishops tell.
Yes, I know, But love is hell.

T. H. White

I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon, but I cannot understand the love affair.

Gore Vidal

He who has thought most deeply loves what is most alive.

Friedrich Hölderlin

Girls bored me — they still do. I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.

Walt Disney You Must Remember This (1975)

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