Quotations On Christmas

The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself.
-- Peter Abelard 1079-1142, French Philosopher, Priest


A woman spent all Christmas Day in a telephone box without ringing anyone. If someone comes to phone, she leaves the box, then resumes her place afterwards. No one calls her either, but from a window in the street, someone watched her all day, no doubt since they had nothing better to do. The Christmas syndrome.
-- Jean Baudrillard French Postmodern Philosopher, Writer


Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through.
-- Angela Carter 1940-1992, British Author


A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
-- Garrison Keillor 1942-, American Humorous Writer, Radio Performer


Call a truce, then, to our labors -- let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if ''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.
-- Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936, British Author of Prose, Verse


There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.
-- Robert Lynd 1892-1970, American Sociology Author


Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!
-- Phyllis Mcginley 1905-1978, American Poet, Author


This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, our great redemption from above did bring.
-- John Milton 1608-1674, British Poet