"Well-behaved women rarely make history."
— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

"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

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever."
— Alfred Lord Tennyson

"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?"
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— Bob Hope

"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