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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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I think love and sex are separate and only vaguely similar. Like the word bear and the word bare. You can get in trouble mistaking one for the other.

Harlan Ellison Shatterday (1980)

Wear your love like heaven.

Donovan A Gift from a Flower to a Garden (1967)

God loves without limit and this puts a loving person most securely at peace.

John Ruysbroeck The Spiritual Espousals (1340)

I asked Rajiv to be frank. I had no love for office or power. I could walk out any time. I was like a sojourner in an inn.

Zail Singh

The family was based, not upon actual relationship, but upon power, and the husband acquired over his wife the same despotic power which the father had over his children.

Henry James Sumner Maine The early history of the property of married women (1873)

The people who Bitch about life the most are the people who secretly love bitching

Frances Bean Cobain

The role tradition has played in the relationship in the family between men and women has been detrimental to women.

Graça Machel Graca Machel: Traditional practices put women in positions of inferiority (2009)

Love, just like passion, is anticipation, unlimited trust, wonderful madness, a living and disruptive fire.

Paolo Crepet

For a man filled with a great, true and unselfish love, even if it be on one side only, there open horizons and possibilities and paths which are closed and unknown to so many clever, ambitious and selfish men.

Ivo Andrić The Bridge on the Drina (1945)

Without your love
It's a honky-tonk parade
Without your love
It's a melody played in a penny arcade. It's a Barnum and Bailey world
Just as phony as it can be
But it wouldn't be make-believe
If you believed in me.

Yip Harburg It's Only a Paper Moon (1933)

Hi, new people — there's a lot of new people. Welcome to the family. We're a little weird here, but we're all very nice — so you'll fit in here. We're kind of intense — but you'll figure it out.

Ysabella Brave

When I was a lion, panther was my prey;
I caught everything which I hunted.
When I came to embrace tightly love for you,
A lame fox drove me from den.

Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

O the people of faith, when you open inner eyes, you will see beauty of the Beloved, radiant everywhere. In every mirror you see Him. In every color of His manifestation you will notice fire of His love.

Bu Ali Shah Qalandar The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

The meaning of life is beauty and love.

Rudy Rucker The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul (2016)

My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet. As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind. I'm a wretch. But I love, love.

Jack Kerouac Satori in Paris (1966)

I don't feel special … I was just full of energy and loved to learn.

Alicia Witt

I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me "I love you." … There is an African saying which is: "Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt."

Maya Angelou

All hearts confess the saints elect,
Who, twain in faith, in love agree,
And melt not in an acid sect
The Christian pearl of charity!

John Greenleaf Whittier

It surely is far sweeter and more wise
To water love, than toil to leave anon
A name whose glory-gleam will but advise
Invidious minds to quench it with their own.

Thomas Hardy Poems of the Past and the Present (1901)

As all the perfumes of the vanished day
Rise from the earth still moistened with the dew
So from my chastened soul beneath thy ray
Old love is born anew.

Alfred de Musset

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