Christmas/Winter Quotes & Poems

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."
~ Charles Dickens (1812-1870) From 'A Christmas Carol'.

Something about an old-fashioned Christmas is hard to forget."
~ Hugh Downs (1921- ), American newscaster

Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone."
~ Charles Schulz (1922-2000), American cartoonist 'Peanuts'.

Maybe Christmas," he thought, "doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas... perhaps... means a little bit more."
~ Dr. Seuss (1904-1991) From 'How The Grinch Stole Christmas'.

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors,
and let each new year find you a better man.
~Benjamin Franklin

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
~Oprah Winfrey

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.
~John Burroughs

A happy New Year! Grant that I
May bring no tear to any eye
When this New Year in time shall end
Let it be said I've played the friend,
Have lived and loved and labored here,
And made of it a happy year.
~Edgar Guest