The holiday season is a time of giving and sharing, but if you're looking to share a funny or inspirational holiday or Christmas quotation, the task can be made difficult with hundreds of quotes out there on bookshelves and on the internet.
There's dozens of books and websites out there with holiday sayings and quotations - so many, in fact, that it can be a downright daunting task to sift through the lame quotations to find those really good holiday quotes or sayings for a Christmas card, note or "just because."
So for anyone who's looking for a great saying, check out this selection of holiday-themed quotations and sayings – they're sure to be fitting for just about any occasion.
Funny Holiday and Christmas Quotes
- "Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it." ~ Richard Lamm
- "Once again, we come to the holiday season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice." ~ Dave Barry
- "Next to a circus, there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit." ~Kin Hubbard
- "There has only been one Christmas – the rest are anniversaries." ~W.J. Cameron
- "Christmas is the season when you buy this year's gifts with next year's money." ~Unknown
- "I do like Christmas on the whole...In its clumsy way, it does approach peace and goodwill. But it is clumsier every year." ~ E.M. Foster
- "Christmas is a race to see which gives out first – your money or your feet." ~ Unknown
- "Marry an orphan. You'll never have to spend boring holidays with the in-laws. At most, an occasional visit to the cemetery." ~ George Carlin
- "The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin." ~ Jay Leno
Inspiring Holiday and Christmas Sayings
- " The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other." ~Burton Hillis
- "Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone." ~ Charles Schulz
- "Christmas is for children. But it is for grown-ups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, a nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide-bound hearts." ~ Lenora Mattingly Weber
- "There is nothing sadder in this world than to awake on Christmas morning and not be a child." ~ Erma Bombeck, in I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression
- "Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect." ~ Oren Arnold
- "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 sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself." ~ Francis C. Farley
- "Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind." ~ Mary Ellen Chase
- "A Christmas candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise at all, But softly gives itself away; While quite unselfish, it grows small." ~ Eva K. Logue
- "Christmas is a time when you get homesick – even when you're home." ~Carol Nelson
- "As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same." ~ Donald E. Westlake
- "Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall." ~ Larry Wilde, in The Merry Book of Christmas
Check out Funny Christmas Quotes and Holiday Sayings for more humorous quotes relating to the holiday season.
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