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Christmas
«Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts is that we don't quite know how to put our love into words»
Author: Harlan Miller
| About:
Christmas
| Keywords:
buying, Christmas gift, haywire, silly, the Endless, unrestrained
«Somehow, not only for Christmas but all the long year through, The joy that you give to others Is the joy that comes back to you. And the more you spend in blessing The poor and lonely and sad, The more of your heart's possessing Returns to you glad.»
Author: John Greenleaf Whittier
(Writer)
| About:
Christmas,
Kindness
| Keywords:
possessing, returns
«The earth has grown old with its burden of care but at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.»
«There are some people who want to throw their arms round you just because it's Christmas, there are other people who want to strangle you just because its Christmas»
Author: Robert Lynd
(Essayist, Journalist)
| About:
Christmas,
Mankind,
People,
Society
| Keywords:
strangle
«There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed-the four-poster-I'll be needing that to die in.»
Author: Helen Hayes
(Actress)
| About:
Christmas,
Vanity
| Keywords:
four-poster, needing, parting, poster
«On Christmas day you can't get sore, Your fellow man you must adore, There's time to cheat him all the more The other three hundred and sixty-four»
Author: Tom Lehrer
(Mathematician, Singer, Song Writer)
| About:
Cheating,
Christmas
| Keywords:
adore, Christmas Day, sixty-four, sore, three hundred, Three hundred and sixty
«There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of former times. They recall the pictures my fancy used to draw in the May morning of life, when as yet I only knew the world through books, and believed it to be all that poets had painted it; and they bring with them the flavour of those honest days of yore, in which, perhaps with equal fallacy, I am apt to think the world was more home-bred, social, and joyous than at present.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| About:
Books,
Christmas,
Literature
| Keywords:
as yet, at present, bred, customs, delightful, draw in, exercises, fallacies, fallacy, flavour, holiday, joyous, painted, picture book, recall, rural, yore