Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy Holiday season!
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautifulNorman Vincent Peale
![Beneath The Snow Encumbered Branches by Joseph Farquharson, 1903](https://farm1.staticflickr.com/739/23748607252_34b3f5cf96_o.jpg)
Be merry all, be merry all,
With holly dress the festive hall;
Prepare the song, the feast, the ball,
To welcome merry Christmas.
William Robert Spencer
With holly dress the festive hall;
Prepare the song, the feast, the ball,
To welcome merry Christmas.
William Robert Spencer
![Christmas Market by Heinrich Maniser (Russian, 1847 - 1925)](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53386334086_5f706ab5d6_o.jpg)
Christmas is coming; it is almost here! With Santa and presents, good will and cheer!Gertrude Tooley Buckingham, 'Christmas' (1940s)
![Christmas market in Berlin by Franz Skarbina - 1892](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53385420367_33a532b7c8_o.jpg)
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.Charles Dickens
![Christmas On Fifth Avenue by Alice Barber Stephens (American, 1858 - 1932)](https://farm1.staticflickr.com/598/23212218374_decef797cb_o.jpg)
Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas; Star and angels gave the sign.Christina Rossetti
![Porte St Martin At Christmas Time In Paris by Luigi Loir - circa 1890](https://farm1.staticflickr.com/647/23213563903_ccd822ba92_o.jpg)
For the spirit of Christmas fulfils the greatest hunger of mankind.Loring A. Schuler
![Christmas Time by Nikolai Pimonenko (Ukrainian, 1862 - 1912)](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53386632649_0332843057_o.jpg)
 Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.Winston Churchill
![Christmas market by Franz Skarbina - circa 1900](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53386743245_cebfbb925b_o.jpg)
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
![Twas the Night Before Christmas by Henry John Yeend King (English, 1855 - 1924)](https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5736/23731955762_1f2a45a9c9_o.jpg)
 At Christmas, all roads lead home.Marjorie Holmes
![A Christmas Party by George Henry Durrie - 1852](https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5683/23212219774_1c78cebc98_o.jpg)
At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.Thomas Tusser
![Christmas Celebrations in Ukraine by Konstantin Trutovsky, (Russian, 1826 - 1893)](https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5665/23212219244_a791085969_o.jpg)
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.Washington Irving
![Christmas Morning, Hotel de Cluny by Edwin Deakin (American, 1838 - 1923)](https://farm1.staticflickr.com/676/23212218594_1bf96a1b66_o.jpg)
Sprinkled with brandy in flames, and decorated with a sprig of holly stuck in the centre. Oh! The marvelous pudding!A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
![A Christmas Dole by Joseph Clark, (United Kingdom, 1834 - 1926)](https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5700/23757867781_364fff140e_o.jpg)
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
![Christmas Day by George Goodwin Kilburne, (English, 1839 - 1924)](https://farm1.staticflickr.com/663/23814259216_a1d980dfe7_o.jpg)
It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.Charles Dickens
![Christmas Morning by Henry Mosler - circa 1916](https://farm1.staticflickr.com/654/23544649100_428fae694b_o.jpg)
The smell of pine needles, spruce and the smell of a Christmas tree – those to me, are the scents of the holidays.Blake Lively
![Silent Night by Viggo Johansen, 1891](https://farm1.staticflickr.com/594/23544648180_49fce15819_o.jpg)
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.Burton Hillis
![The Christmas Tree by Albert Chevallier Tayler - 1911](https://farm1.staticflickr.com/662/23212217774_f7b01f58b7_o.jpg)
Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.J.L.W. Brooks
![Christmas presents by Hugo Oehmichen - 1882](https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5687/23212218274_23ae5c188f_o.jpg)
I was lucky enough to grow up in a home where I woke up Christmas morning and had toys. I know that’s not the case with all people and I don’t think kids should go without experiencing that sort of joy.Lucy Hale
![Christmas by Felix Ehrlich, (German, 1866 - 1931)](https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5706/23840352585_5572e7d230_o.jpg)
Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive.Robert Lynd
![Christmas Time by Eastman Johnson - 1864](https://farm1.staticflickr.com/676/23544648470_27e56c26fa_o.jpg)
A Christmas candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise at all, But softly gives itself away.Eva Logue
![The Christmas Tree by Julian Alden Weir - 1890](https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5749/23840353735_c63a9a5927_o.jpg)