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 keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
It serves for food and raiment.
One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.
It is always a poor way of reading the hearts of others to try to conceal our own.
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
Thus I am not able to exist either with you or without you; and I seem not to know my own wishes.