Christmas is a festival that is celebrated with equal level of fun and seriousness. The fun element of the festival is reflected in its merrymaking - people celebrate it by feasting, singing Christmas carols and songs and decorating their tree, beautifully. The serious part of the festival confines to the rituals and traditions, followed since ages. Certain things associated with Christmas, such as quotations, songs, stories and legends carry the real essence of the festival. Christmas stories and legends tell us the religious aspects of the festival, while the quotations, songs and carols capture different emotions of the people, during the festive season. Check out the article to get some of the best quotations of the festival.

Best Christmas Quotes

"Open your presents at Christmas time, but be thankful year round for the gifts you receive." - Lorinda Ruth Lowen

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

"Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money." - Author Unknown

"A Christmas candle is a lovely thing;
It makes no noise at all,
But softly gives itself away."
- Eva Logue

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

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

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

"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 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

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

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

"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

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

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

"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

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

"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

"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

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

"Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts." - Janice Maeditere

"Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas."
- Dale Evans Rogers