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Top Five Christmas books

Top Five Christmas story book ever written.

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Letters from Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg

How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson

Top 10 Reasons to Celebrate Christmas

Top 10 Reasons to Celebrate Christmas
Lists, lists, and more lists,
And here's one more--
As you drag and drop
At the Christmas door!

Lists, lists, and more lists,
And here's one more--
As you drag and drop
At the Christmas door!
10.
The economy needs my money!
Top 10 Reasons to Celebrate Christmas

9.
I love Santa Claus!

Free Letter from Santa
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Personalize with up to seven details specific to your child!

8.
My in-laws are going to Maui for the holidays--and not MY house!

It's NOT Maui? Then where in the world IS it?

7.
I'm not politically correct!

"A Case for Christmas" - A Pastor speaks out on Political correctness!

6.
I like to shop.

Apple City Mall
Christmas Guide - All About Christmas
Faith2Go.com--a Christian Christmas shop
Mall of America
The Gift Certificate Store

Alternative: I HATE to shop...let SANTA do it!!

5.
I like to eat!

And so does my friend Barb! Tell her I sent you!
Tis The Christmas Season--a wonderful Christian family page!

AND so does Mrs. Claus! Mrs. Claus' Cookbook!!

Puddings.net - Christmas recipes
Christmas Cookies
Free Christmas Recipes

On a diet? Try some Virtual Dessert!

4.
Think I'm gettin' an iMac under my tree --don't tell Bill Gates!

The 12 Microsoft Days of Christmas
A fun spoof on Microsoft by a MAC lover, I'm sure! Enjoy!

If you don't like Macs, how about a Big Mac!

3.
The kids don't have enough toys!

Feature: W.A.T.C.H. - World against Toys Causing Harm (Toy Safety)

Family Fun: Award-Winning Toys of the Year
Perfectly Puzzled--a Treasure Hunt

Toys R Us

Toys.com -- The Most Convenient Toy Store in the World!

2.
I like angels!
Earth-angels included-- my two kids don't qualify! Do yours?

Always an Angel - Handcrafted Angels
Patricia's Angel Babies

1.
I love Jesus!

It is HIS Birthday, remember?

The Nativity Story - awesome!

"God's Christmas Present" - Remembering the Reason for the Season
from Wanda's Country Home.

"If Christmas Is Only for Children"
Annie's Wisemen Page

Free Unique Christmas gifts tips

Free Unique Christmas gifts tips. There are some new gadgets that are becoming the like life supporting system for the busy executives and professionals. Not only the technological advancements help them in their field of work but also in their relaxation. So these new gadgets can be nice Christmas gifts.

The gadget that comes to my mind first is the Slingbox. It is becoming popular fast among the people who are always traveling on business. This device lets people to catch up the local television programes from their hotel rooms. The slingbox has to be attached to the television at home, catches the local TV signals, convert it into digital signal and sends it through the Internet. The price of the boxes usually starts around $120 and prices vary according to various other features. In Amazon, slingboxes, both used and new models are available at lower price as there are some offers of discounts, while in Circuitcity there are different models.
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While the executives might not feel necessary to wear the watch just for seeing the time, the watch maker Suunto has made them think twice. Suunto, a subsidiary of the Amer Sports has brought out a line of watch that shows not only the time but also let business traveller keep a track of their appointments, their locations and their speed and heart rate while exercising. You can check out Amazon.

For those busy executives Digital Pen recorder can be useful gift. It records voices upto 64 hours. Spygadgets are offering free gifts along with a Digital Pen recorder. The offer will close soon and so hurry!

Scottevest has brought out a new jacket for keeping the gadgets and letting the people hide the wires. However, magnets are used in some of the designs to keep the pockets shut. So the manufacturer has warned those with pacemakers not to wear such jackets.

If you need to watch your budget then buy some useful gadgets like Logitech Clearchat Pro USB Headset or a cordless headphone for ipod Shuffle or a flashdrive for cellphones. After all, it's the thought that matters and not the money, right?

But before you go for buying a electronic gadget as a Christmas gift, keep some facts in mind:
Always shop from reputable companies and if you are buying online don't forget to check the reseller ratings and product reviews.
Do some research about the latest technology or seek guidance of any knowledgeable person to ensure that the gift is not going to be outdated soon or will be compatible with the other electronic items.
Always know every details about the warranty period and be careful about the insurance and keeping the receipts .
So, just keep in mind these precautions and gear up for the coming holiday season. Happy shopping!

Christmas tree safety tips

Christmas celebrations are incomplete without having a Christmas tree at your home or at least decorating a Christmas tree before your house.Though most of us nowadays go for artificial Christmas trees which can stay fresh forever, there is nothing like a real Christmas tree being decorated at your home.
If you have any plan to buy a Christmas tree then this is the perfect time. You can get useful tips on purchasing Christmas tree on a friendship blog that I have just visited. Don't miss it.

While decorating an original Christmas tree, certain precautions needs to be taken to keep the tree fresh and avoid any unwanted situations.
Always buy a fresh tree. The needles pulled from a fresh fir tree would snap when bent, but the needles of pine and spruces are not easy to pull off from branches and should not break easily.
Protect the tree from sun and wind and keep the bottom of the tree under water. Before you put the tree in water, cut an inch from the bottom to make the tree soak water well.
On Christmas, one should place the tree away from the fireplaces, radiators and other sources of fire and electricity. The tree should not block any exit.
The outdoor lights should be used only outdoors and indoors lights for indoors and are correct voltages. Also make sure that the lights are certified after laboratory test and do not put the cords in the middle of the room.
Before leaving the house or going for sleep, put off the lights of the Christmas tree.
Keep a fire extinguisher ready for any emergency.
So just be a little careful and have a safe holidays!

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7 Funny Christmas Quotes from Movies and TV Shows

Seeing as Christmas is around the corner, we’ve compiled a list of memorable Christmas quotes from ten different movies and TV shows. Now, these quotes aren’t exactly in sync with the Christmas spirit but hey, if they make you smile or help bring back fond memories, we’d have done our part in spreading the joy.

7 Funny Christmas Quotes from Movies and TV Shows

1. Simpsons (1989)

Bart Simpson: “Aren’t we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa.”

2. Seinfeld (1990)

Frank Costanza: “Many Christmases ago, I went to buy a doll for my son. I reached for the last one they had, but so did another man. As I rained blows upon him, I realized there had to be another way.”

Cosmo Kramer: “What happened to the doll?”

Frank Costanza: “It was destroyed. But out of that a new holiday was born: a Festivus for the rest of us!”

3. This Christmas (2007)

Melanie Whitfield: “So, technically, you slept with Santa?”
Kelli Whitfield: “Well…yes.”
Melanie Whitfield: “Well, ho, ho, ho!”

4. We’re No Angels (1955)

Joseph: “I’m going to buy them their Christmas turkey.”
Albert: “Buy? Do you really mean buy?”
Joseph: “Yes, buy! In the Spirit of Christmas. The hard part’s going to be stealing the money to pay for it.”

5. The Office (2005)

Michael Scott: “Christmas is awesome. First of all you get to spend time with people you love. Secondly, you can get drunk and no one can say anything. Third, you give presents. What’s better than giving presents? And fourth, getting presents. So, four things. Not bad for one day. It’s really the greatest day of all time.”

6. Home Alone (1990)

Kevin McCallister: “Okay, this is extremely important. Will you please tell Santa that instead of presents this year, I just want my family back?”

7. Married with Children (1987)

Married With Children

Al Bundy: “I hate Christmas. The mall is full of nothing but women and children. All you hear is, ‘I want this,’ ‘Get me this,’ ‘I have to have this’ . . . and then there’s the children. And they’re all by my store ’cause they stuck the mall Santa right outside ringing his stupid bell. As if you need a bell to notice a 300-pound alcoholic in a red suit. ‘Ho, ho, ho,’ all day long. So, nice as can be, I go outside, ask him to shut the hell up. He takes a swing at me. So I lay a hook into his fat belly and he goes down. Beard comes off, all the kids start crying and I’m the bad guy.”

Merry Christmas to all language

Merry Christmas to all of you! I know, I know- today is Christmas Eve. We are going to have a Christmas party in the evening and tomorrow will be really hectic one. Nevertheless, it is a fun to have all your near ones together and have fun. I just found how to say "Merry Christmas" in different languages

Antarctica: - Merry Christmas, Felices Pasquas, Hristos Razdajetsja
Argentina: - Feliz Navidad!
Australia: - Happy Christmas
Austria: - Frohe Weihnachten

Bangladesh: - Shuvo Baro Din
Barbados: - Merry Christmas
Belarus: - Winshuyu sa Svyatkami
Belgium: - Zalig Kerstfeest
Brazil: - Feliz Natal
Chile: - Feliz Navidad China Sheng Tan Kuai Loh

Colombia: - Feliz Navidad para todos

Chile: - Feliz Navidad China Sheng Tan Kuai Loh
Croatia: - Sretan Bozic
Cuba: - Feliz Navidad
Cyprus: - Eftihismena Christougenna, Noeliniz kutlu olsun ve yeni yili
Czech Republic: - Vesele Vanoce

Democratic People's Republic of Korea: - Sung Tan Chuk Ha
Denmark: - Glaedelig Jul

Egypt: - Mboni Chrismen
El Salvador: - Feliz Navidad

Fiji: - Merry Christmas
Finland: - Hauskaa Joulua
France: - Joyeux Noel

Guatemala: - Feliz Navidad
Guinea: - Joyeux Noel
Guinea-bissau: - Boas Festas
Guyana: - Merry Christmas

Ireland: - Nollaig Shona dhuit
Israel: - Mo'adim Lesimkha
Italy: - Buon Natale

Mexico: - Feliz Navidad
Monaco: - Joyeux Noel
Montserrat: - Merry Christmas
Morocco: - Mboni Chrismen
Mozambique: - Boas Festas

Netherlands: - Prettige Kerstdagen
Norway: - Gledelig Jul

Oman: - Mboni Chrismen

Pakistan: - Bara Din Mubarrak Ho
Palau: - Merry Christmas
Panama: - Feliz Navidad

Polish WESOŁYCH ŚWIĄT

Tunisia: - Mboni Chrismen
Turkey: - Mutlu Noeller
Turks and Caicos Islands: - Happy Christmas

Tamil(Indian) Christmas vazhthukkal

Zambia: - Happy Christmas
Zimbabwe: - Happy Christmas

Well, well, there are lots more. But I can collect only these many. Merry Christmas.

Funny Christmas Quotes

Even God cannot change the past.

Agathon 447?-401 B.C.Quoted in Aristotle’s Nicomachaean Ethics, 6

Education is not filling a pail, but lighting a fire.

William Butler Yeats

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Charles Dickens

I asked for riches, that I may be happy; I was given poverty, that I might
be wise.

Lazlo’s Chinese Relativity Axiom

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who
have not got it.

George Bernard Shaw

This month’s “What I learned …” is up and the topic is

What I Learned From… The World of Sports

I played soccer (that other kind of football) in High School and College and I learned many things about teamwork and fair play and following the rules but the most important thing I learned was learned too late and was much more physical than mental.

Protect your knees and ankles. You only get one natural pair. Keep them strong and don’t do stupid things that can hurt them badly.

I have nearly constant knee and ankle pain to this day due to things I did back then.

About every five years I go into see my Doctor (General Practicioner) and he does x-rays, and things to look at how the knees are holding up. Then he says “Well, it looks like they will last you about five more years before we have to replace them.” He has been saying that for about thirty years.

Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.

Translation:

Knowledge is power.

Francis Bacon (1561-1626) Meditationes Sacrae, De Haeresibus

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

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

Tom Clancy

Correct morals arise from knowing what man is - not what do-gooders and
well-meaning old Aunt Nellies would like him to be.

Robert A Heinlein - Starship Troopers

God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Seth Godin Quotes

“Along the way, we bought the story that giving someone a hundred dollar bill as a gift (”go buy what you want”) is callous, insensitive, a crass shortcut. Buying them a $100 Best Buy card, on the other hand, is thoughtful. Even if they spend $92 and have to waste the rest.”
-Seth Godin

Gift cards are for chumps.
- Seth Godin

A wakeup call about the Gift Card Industry and how much money goes to waste each year.

Seth provides a brilliant idea for non-profits to market alternative gift cards for when you give cash.

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to
govern but impossible to enslave.

Baron Henry Peter Brougham

Seth Godin posted this morning about The end of misogyny? and had this to say:

“It’s sort of astonishing… in my lifetime, we’ve seen the end of public (but certainly not private) attacks on people because of race or mainstream religion (fringe beliefs and sexual orientation are still fair game, apparently)… but trying to humiliate half the population because of their gender seems just fine.”
- Seth Godin

It looks kind of like pimping for Robert Greenwald and a website called “Fox News Porn” which is selling a video of racy, sexy videos from segments shown on the Fox News channel.

More on Seth Godin

Oh, blank confusion! true epitome
Of what the mighty city is herself,
To thousands upon thousands of her sons,
Living amid the same perpetual whirl
Of trivial objects, melted and reduced
To one identity, by differences
That have no law, no meaning, and no end
William Wordsworth (1770–1850), British poet. The Prelude; VII. Residence in London (l. 722–728).

the shadow of a difference
falling between
note and note,
a hair’s breadth
defining them.

Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo–U.S. poet. ‘Claritas.’

Jeremiah Owyang - Web Strategist posted a really concise explanation of The Social Graph and why it matters, including how the implementation can be improved.

Executive Summary
The Social Graph is the representation of our relationships. Today, these graphs define our personal, family, or business communities on social websites. Unfortunately, we’re duplicating our same Social Graph on multiple websites, resulting in inaccurate data and time spent managing it. Despite many challenges, our Social Graphs should be self-managed from a single trusted source, replicated to websites of our choosing, thus resulting in accurate, efficient, relationship management.
- Jeremiah Owyang

Read More Details at Explaining what the “Social Graph” is to your Executives

Definition: The Social Graph is the representation of our relationships. In present day context, these graphs define our personal, family, or business communities on social networking websites
- - Jeremiah Owyang

I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), French essayist. “On Some Verses of Virgil,” The Essays (Les Essais), bk. III, ch. 5, Abel Langelier, Paris (1588)

Josh: Maybe it’s better not to be the best. Then you can lose and it’s OK.

Fred Waitzkin and Steven Zaillian Searching For Bobby Fischer, 1993

There are fools everywhere, even in asylums.

George Bernard Shaw

Americans always try to do the right thing — after they’ve tried everything
else.

Winston Churchill

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a
mystery inside an enigma.

Winston Churchill radio speech, Oct. 1, 1939

Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

David Fasold

Voting is now open for the 2007 weblog Awards.

The only blogs that we nominated that are in the finals are those in the Best Food Blog Category.

Out friend PJ over at DUmmie FUnnies is a finalist and is currently winning in the Funniest Blog category.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other
bastard die for his.

No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making
other bastards die for their country.

General George Smith Patton 1885-1945

Best Inspirational Christmas messages

Christmas is the time to spread the message of love, harmony and peace. Of course it is a time to get showered with gifts and wishes, but in the midst of all the commercialism, we should not forget the real spirit of the Christmas. Here are some of the best message from known and unknown men that reminds us that Christmas is not only about fun and gifts, but of love and generosity.
Best Inspirational Christmas messages

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
Roy L. Smith

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.
Peg Bracken

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

I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world.
Norman Vincent Peale

Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.
Eric Sevareid

The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has no Christmas in his heart.
Helen Keller

Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
Washington Irving

There is no name so sweet on earth, no name so sweet in Heaven,
The name, before His wondrous birth, to Christ the Savior given.
George W. Bethune

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
Burton Hillis

Best of all, Christmas means a spirit of love, a time when the love of God and the love of our fellow men should prevail over all hatred and bitterness, a time when our thoughts and deeds and the spirit of our lives manifest the presence of God.
George F. McDougall

Christmas is not in tinsel and lights and outward show. The secret lies in an inner glow. It's lighting a fire inside the heart. Good will and joy a vital part. It's higher thought and a greater plan. It's glorious dream in the soul of man.
Peterson, The Art of Living

"My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?"
Bob Hope

"What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace."
Agnes M. Pharo

Meanwhile, one of my buddies birthday is on Christmas eve and I have to find some nice birthday gift for him. I got some useful tips from a birthday and you can check it out too.

Royal Navy – All I want For Christmas Is You

Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want For Christmas’ is always popular during the holiday season. Just last week the Miracle On 42nd Street Dance went viral lip singing and dancing to the song. Now it’s the British Navy’s HMS Ocean’s shot and after a 7 month deployment, they nail it.

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Christmas, the second-greatest feast day in the Christian calendar (after Easter Sunday), celebrates the nativity, or birth, of Jesus Christ.

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What is the date of Christmas 2010? Answer: Christmas Day falls on Saturday, December 25, 2011.

Here is a collection of Happy Christmas 2011 SMS

Christmas may be many things
or it may be a few.
For you, the joy
is each new toy;
for me;
it’s watching U.
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Two things upon this changing earth can neither change nor end; the splendor of Christ's humble birth, the love of friend for friend.
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Ur friendship is a glowing ember through the yr n each december frm its warm n livin spark v kindle flame against da dark n with its shining radiance light our tree of faith on Christmas night.
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May all the sweet magic
Of Christmas conspire
To gladden your hearts
And fill every desire.
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Roses 4 u...
MERRY CHRISTMAS to
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Lets welcome the year which is fresh
Lets welcome the year which is fresh and new,Lets cherish each moment it beholds, Lets celebrate this blissful New year. Merry X-mas
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Can I have your picture, so Santa Claus knows exactly what to give me. Happy Christmas.
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If one night a big fat man jumps in at your window, grabs you and puts you in a sack don't worry I told Santa I wanted you for CHRISTMAS.HAPPY CHRISTMAS
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Have an ideal Christmas;
an occasion that is celebrated as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.
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Heap on the wood!-the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.
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Christmas Quotes

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. ~Norman Vincent Peale

Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home. ~Carol Nelson

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. ~Roy L. Smith

I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. ~Charles Dickens

Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year - and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority. ~W.J. Cameron

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other. ~Burton Hillis

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly. ~Andy Rooney

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home! ~Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, 1836

There has been only one Christmas - the rest are anniversaries. ~W.J. Cameron

'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale;

'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale;

A Christmas gambol oft could cheer

The poor man's heart through half the year.

~Walter Scott

Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves. ~Eric Sevareid

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time. ~Laura Ingalls Wilder

May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through! ~Author Unknown

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. ~Charles Dickens

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Self-made cards with goodwill verses have been sent by hand or by post, for centuries. The first that's recognizable as what we now think of as a Christmas card, i.e. a printed card sent by post, was sent at Christmas 1843.

Sir Henry Cole, the founder of the London's Victoria and Albert Museum, had sent many handwritten cards previously but that year he commissioned John Calcott Horsley to paint a card showing the feeding and clothing of the poor.

"A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to You" was printed on the first Christmas card.

Since then the billions of cards that have been sent almost all contain a printed verse. Many of these are culled from religious or sentimental texts, notably from Victorian authors such as Charles Dickens.

Here's a selection of the numerous verses and rhymes that have been used as source material by Christmas card writers - from the touching and profound to the comic and cynical:

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

A Christmas gambol oft could cheer
The poor man's heart through half the year. - Walter Scott

A Christmas shopper's complaint is one of long-standing.

And the angel said unto them, "Fear not! For, behold, I bring you tidings of great joy, Which shall be to all people. "For unto you is born this day in the city of David A Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you: Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, Lying in a manger. - St. Luke 10-12

And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more. - Dr. Seuss

Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest thing in the world - stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death - and that the blessed life which began in Bethlehem nineteen hundred years ago is the image and brightness of the Eternal Love? Then you can keep Christmas. - Henry Van Dyke

As the Holiday Season is upon us, we find ourselves reflecting on the past year and on those who have helped to shape our business in a most significant way. We value our relationship with you and look forward to working with you in the year to come. We wish you a very happy Holiday Season and a New Year filled with peace and prosperity.

At Christmas play and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year - Thomas Tusser

Best wishes for a happy and prosperous New Year.

Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind;
Teach us to be patient and always to be kind. - Helen Steiner Rice

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love! - Hamilton Wright Mabie

Christmas - that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance - a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved. - Augusta E. Rundel

Christmas ... is not an eternal event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart. - Freya Stark

Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year. - P.J. O'Rourke

Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart... filled it, too, with a melody that would last forever. - Bess Streeter Aldrich

Christmas is a race to see which gives out first - your money or your feet.

Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered. What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day. - Phyllis Diller

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

Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home. - Carol Nelson

Christmas is for children. But it is for grown-ups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide-bound hearts. - Lenora Mattingly Weber

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

Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year - and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority. -W.J. Cameron

Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. - Washington Irving

Christmas is the season when you buy this year's gifts with next year's money.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. - Norman Vincent Peale

Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given--when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes. -Joan Winmill Brown

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind. -Mary Ellen Chase

Christmas--that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance - a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved. - Augusta E. Rundel

Don't expect too much of Christmas Day. You can't crowd into it any arrears of unselfishness and kindliness that may have accrued during the past twelve months. -Oren Arnold

Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty-fifth of this month, that the Divinest Heart that ever walked the earth was born on that day; and then smile and enjoy yourselves for the rest of it; for mirth is also of Heaven's making. -Leigh Hunt

For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home. -W.J. Ronald Tucker

For the spirit of Christmas fulfils the greatest hunger of mankind. -Loring A. Schuler

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it. - Katharine Whitehorn

From Home to home, and heart to heart, from one place to another. The warmth and joy of Christmas, brings us closer to each other. - Emily Matthews

Great little One!
whose all-embracing birth
Lifts Earth to Heaven,
stoops Heaven to Earth. - Richard Crashaw

Greetings of the Season and Best Wishes for the New Year

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home! - Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, 1836

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. - Roy L. Smith

Heap on the wood!-the wind is chill;
But let it whistle as it will,
We'll keep our Christmas merry still. - Sir Walter Scott

Holiday Greetings and Best Wishes for a New Year of Happiness in a world of peace.

Holiday Greetings!. . . celebrate each day.

I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress. - May Sarton

I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday - the longer, the better - from the great boarding school where we are forever working at our arithmetical slates, to take, and give a rest. -Charles Dickens

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. Forster

I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. - Charles Dickens

I hear that in many places something has happened to Christmas; that it is changing from a time of merriment and carefree gaiety to a holiday which is filled with tedium; that many people dread the day and the obligation to give Christmas presents is a nightmare to weary, bored souls; that the children of enlightened parents no longer believe in Santa Claus; that all in all, the effort to be happy and have pleasure makes many honest hearts grow dark with despair instead of beaming with good will and cheerfulness. - Julia Peterkin, A Plantation Christmas, 1934

I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play,And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men! - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I love the Christmas-tide, and yet,
I notice this, each year I live;
I always like the gifts I get,
But how I love the gifts I give! - Carolyn Wells

I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays - let them overtake me unexpectedly - waking up some find morning and suddenly saying to myself: "Why, this is Christmas Day!" - David Grayson

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. - Charles Dickens

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month. - Harlan Miller

If "ifs" and "buts" were candy and nuts, wouldn't it be a Merry Christmas? - Don Meredith

If there is no joyous way to give a festive gift, give love away.

In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it 'Christmas' and went to church; the Jews called it 'Hanukkah' and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say 'Merry Christmas!' or 'Happy Hanukkah!' or (to the atheists) 'Look out for the wall!' - Dave Barry, "Christmas Shopping: A Survivor's Guide"

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

Isn't it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for - I don't know what exactly, but it's something that you don't mind so much not having at other times. - Kate L. Bosher

It comes every year and will go on forever. And along with Christmas belong the keepsakes and the customs. Those humble, everyday things a mother clings to, and ponders, like Mary in the secret spaces of her heart. - Marjorie Holmes

It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air. - W.T. Ellis

It is the one season of the year when we can lay aside all gnawing worry, indulge in sentiment without censure, assume the carefree faith of childhood, and just plain "have fun." Whether they call it Yuletide, Noel, Weinachten, or Christmas, people around the earth thirst for its refreshment as the desert traveller for the oasis. - D.D. Monroe

It was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, "God Bless Us, Every One! -Charles Dickens

Let the spirit of love gently fill our hearts and homes. In this loveliest of seasons may you find many reasons for happiness.

Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first. The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world of the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years... Underneath all the bulging bundles is this beating Christmas heart.

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