Holiday Candles

It is fascinating to see how simple quotes can transmit insightful, fun and complex ideas.

Here are some fun quotes for the holiday season. Over 50 fun holiday quotes from people ranging from Phyllis Diller and Andy Rooney to Charles Dickens and John Lennon. humorous and insightful thoughts on Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and atheism to traditions, spirituality and family. For more quotations on topics ranging from love, happiness and wisdom and information on public art project generate dialogue, please see: http://www.DialogueProject.net . Enjoy!

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QUOTES Holiday 2007
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Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered. What I do not like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
(Phyllis Diller)

Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true feelings without feeling embarrassed and perhaps stupid.
(Francis C. Farley)

The three stages of the life of a man:
1. He believes in Santa Claus
2. He does not believe in Santa Claus.
3. He is Santa Claus.
(Unattributed)

I honor Christmas in my heart, and try to take all year.
(Charles Dickens)

Happy, happy Christmas, that can lead us back to the delusions of our childhood, recalling the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler's home and home alone!
(Charles Dickens)

When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow,
We hear sweet voices ringing from lands long ago,
And etched on vacant places
Are half-forgotten faces
Some friends we used to cherish, and love that we knew.
(Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Fantasy Christmas Poems of Power)

What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. He is a strong desire that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that all paths to peace.
(Agnes M. Pharo)

Christmas is not the time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be rich in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
(Calvin Coolidge)

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it is mandatory, like a storm, and we all go through it together.
(Garrison Keillor)

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
(Hamilton Wright Mabie)

May this festival of lights bring blessings upon you and all your loved ones.
May the lights of Hanukkah usher in a better world for all humanity.
May Love & Light fill your home and heart at Hanukkah.
May happiness fill your home as you celebrate the festival of lights.
(Unattributed)

Year's Day is every man's birthday.
(Charles Lamb)

Twas the night before Christmas when the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse:
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicolas soon would be there.
(Clement C. Moore)

If you want to make peace, you do not talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
(Moshe Dayan)

How many families whose members were dispersed and scattered everywhere, in the struggles of the turbulent life, then reunited, and meet again in that happy state of companionship and mutual goodwill, which is a source of pure enjoyment and without these, and so incompatible with the cares and sorrows of the world, that religious belief most of the CIVI.