Christmas Quotes Poems and Sayings

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


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 a time of magic, Where many dreams come true under the warmth and light's of the tree ~ Unknown


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 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

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


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



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


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


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


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


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


Even as an adult I find it difficult to sleep on Christmas Eve. Yuletide excitement is a potent caffeine, no matter your age. ~Carrie Latet


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


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


Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen. ~Author unknown, attributed to a 7-year-old named Bobby


Christmas is forever, not for just one day,
for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away
like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.
The good you do for others is good you do yourself...
~Norman Wesley Brooks, "Let Every Day Be Christmas," 1976


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


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"


Remember
This December,
That love weighs more than gold!
~Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon


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


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


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


Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles. ~Author Unknown


Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer.... Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously? ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes


Only in souls the Christ is brought to birth,
And there He lives and dies.
~Alfred Noyes


When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? ~G.K. Chesterton


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


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


Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in the Holiday Season, that very special time of year when we join with our loved ones in sharing centuries-old traditions such as trying to find a parking space at the mall. We traditionally do this in my family by driving around the parking lot until we see a shopper emerge from the mall, then we follow her, in very much the same spirit as the Three Wise Men, who 2,000 years ago followed a star, week after week, until it led them to a parking space. ~Dave Barry


Keep your Christmas-heart open all the year round. ~Jessica Archmint


Sing hey! Sing hey!
For Christmas Day;
Twine mistletoe and holly.
For a friendship glows
In winter snows,
And so let's all be jolly!
~Author Unknown


To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year. ~E.B. White, "The Distant Music of the Hounds," The Second Tree from the Corner, 1954


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


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


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


There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them. ~P.J. O'Rourke


Roses are reddish
Violets are bluish
If it weren't for Christmas
We'd all be Jewish.
~Benny Hill


Open your presents at Christmastime but be thankful year round for the gifts you receive. ~Lorinda Ruth Lowen


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


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


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


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


At Christmas
A man is at his finest towards the finish of the year;
He is almost what he should be when the Christmas season's here;
Then he's thinking more of others than he's thought the months before,
And the laughter of his children is a joy worth toiling for.
He is less a selfish creature than at any other time;
When the Christmas spirit rules him he comes close to the sublime...
~Edgar Guest


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


The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected. ~Samuel Johnson


The Christmas season has come to mean the period when the public plays Santa Claus to the merchants. ~John Andrew Holmes


[I]t 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


May the spirit of Christmas bring you peace,
The gladness of Christmas give you hope,
The warmth of Christmas grant you love.
~Author Unknown


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


Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice. ~Author Unknown


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

Let Christmas not become a thing
Merely of merchant's trafficking,
Of tinsel, bell and holly wreath
And surface pleasure, but beneath
The childish glamor, let us find
Nourishment for soul and mind.
Let us follow kinder ways
Through our teeming human maze,
And help the age of peace to come
From a Dreamer's martyrdom.
~Madeline Morse

The message of Christmas is that the visible material world is bound to the invisible spiritual world. ~Author Unknown


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


'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet,
Could we bestow the gifts we get,
And keep the ones we give away,
How happy were our Christmas day!
~Carolyn Wells


Except the Christ be born again tonight
In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame,
The world will never see his kingdom bright.
~Vachel Lindsay


There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ~Erma Bombeck, I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression


The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin. ~Jay Leno


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


The earth has grown old with its burden of care,
But at Christmas it always is young.
~Phillips Brooks



Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas. ~Kin Hubbard


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, Modern Manners


Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit. ~Kin Hubbard


Wouldn't life be worth the living
Wouldn't dreams be coming true
If we kept the Christmas spirit
All the whole year through?
~Author Unknown

We hear the beating of wings over Bethlehem and a light that is not of the sun or of the stars shines in the midnight sky. Let the beauty of the story take away all narrowness, all thought of formal creeds. Let it be remembered as a story that has happened again and again, to men of many different races, that has been expressed through many religions, that has been called by many different names. Time and space and language lay no limitations upon human brotherhood. ~New York Times, 25 December 1937, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren, 1938, published by The H.W. Wilson Company, New York

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


O Christmas Sun! What holy task is thine!
To fold a world in the embrace of God!
~Guy Wetmore Carryl


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


Santa is very jolly because he knows where all the bad girls live. ~Dennis Miller


People can't concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the twenty-fifth of December. ~Ogden Nash


Oh! lovely voices of the sky
Which hymned the Saviour's birth,
Are ye not singing still on high,
Ye that sang, "Peace on earth"?
~Felicia Hemans



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


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


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


Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall. ~Larry Wilde, The Merry Book of Christmas

With this all said I wish all of you a wonderful Christmas!
Robert

A All Hour Locksmith RipOff

These Delray Beach Locksmiths are a total rip off. First off they quote a service call rate of $45.00 to come out then when they get there . They say the service call is $65.00 They quote whats called a senior rate to everyone.

I needed 3 Locks re keyed and in most cases as well all know its normally $10.00 to $20.00 to get a re key per lock. I asked him how much it would be on arrival and he said he did not know and would have to look at the locks. I had my hands full while he was looking at the locks and when he came back said All Done and it was $260.00. Thats 65.00 a Lock x3 plus the $60.00 service fee.. Minus the 20% discount coupon. I would say I got Hosed

He did the work without any type of estimate. A All Hour Locksmith Is truly one Delray Beach Locksmith you never want to use. I called the main office to complain about it and never got a return call. I called a week later and they sid thats what they charge.. Why would anyone want to pay that 3x the amount to change a lock when you can just get a whole new lock for that amount..

Warning! Do not USE this Locksmith Service in delray beach Florida!

One Thing Lyrics - Hellyeah

Broken heart, broken dreams, broken promise
Broken wings, broken spirit, break everything.
It breaks a body down.
Broken back, broken seams, broken life
Broken me, broken hope, broken sleep
Broken bottle drinks me down.

Give me, one
Give me, one
Just give me one thing, just give me.

Just give me one thing, one hope, one tear.
Just give me one thing, one wish, one fear.

I've lost it all, lost everything, lost the wish.
Lost the key, lost the trust, lost the need.
Lost the war inside.
Lost the slate, wiped it clean, lost the will.
Lost the means, lost the gift, left the scene,
And burned the body down...

Give me, one.
Give me, one.
Just give me one thing, just give me.

Just give me one thing, one hope, one tear.
Just give me one thing, one wish, one fear.
Just give me one thing, one wish, to let me love again.
Just give me one thing, one hope, The crust of happiness.

Falling out again.
Chasing my life down.
Endless searching for the one thing,
That will turn it all around.

Just give me one thing, one hope, one tear.
Just give me one thing, one wish, one fear.
Just give me one thing, one hope, the crust or happiness.

One fucking thing

Been A Long Time

Hello,

Its been such a long time since I have written here and so much has happened and changed. I really have no idea where to begin. Life has taken some expected twists for the Sweet along with the sour. I guess I will start writing here again very soon

Hurricane Wilma The Big Storm

I stood outside during the second half of hurricane Wilma under a deck sheltered from the gusts that were over 100 miles per hour. I watched as fences broke free and debris and tree limbs flew overhead and small wild animals looked to my spot for shelter with terror in their eyes to afraid of me to come in. I would have done them no harm.

Day after hurricane Wilma.. Relief efforts yeah, really? There was not enough ICE to go round we sat on many different lines four days in a row waiting for ice so our food would not rot just to be turned away when Ice ran out. Why was their not better communication? Why did someone in charge not call for more ice when the first truck was half empty? We wasted gas just sitting there waiting. We never did get ice from one of those trucks. Day 5 after hurricane Wilma we finely got ice at Albertsons who price gouged us. $21.50 for 12 small bags of ice. No power for over 13 days and finely got gas on day 11 after hurricane Wilma.

Gov. Bush,

There had be a better plan in the future for wide spread devastation. If the state cant handle helping people in a major hurricane such as hurricane Wilma and give the assistance that we so dearly pay for with our much needed tax dollars. What are you going to do for us if we get two of these in a year? There needs to be better planning for AID to the citizens of the state in the future for hurricanes like Wilma and not just forcing gas stations to carry generators. You need to make sure that everyone gets the necessities needed to survive and not just a handful! I love the news showing relief efforts and saying how everyone was being helped.. What a crock you could not even get ice for all who needed it and just made a lot of people waste precious gas waiting in line just to be turned away!!!!!!!

Killing Ifrit

Killing Ifrit

When you really need to do it!
You just gotta take it by the horns and rip away..
Kinda like this dull grating day!

Can you tell I'm kind of board?

Final Fantasy video game Rocks when you kill Ifrit

402-572-7581 Stalker!

It all started one evening when I kept getting these creepy hang up calls to my answering machine from 402-572-7581 they continued for about a week or so, calling at all different hours. I figured whoever it was would get the hint and leave a message.. No such luck the strange, Erie and persistent calls continued.. Every time I tried to call the 402-572-7581 number back it was busy. Who is it and what did they want from me I kept asking myself.

After being a victim of a stalker for well over a year and that ended last year I was thinking could this be my stalker coming back yet again? Did she not learn her lesson from when she got caught? I decided to call my private investigator and put them on the job of who was behind the freaky calls from 402-572-7581.

As it turns out its a company that does appointment confirmation calls for many different companies to confirm anything from Furniture deliveries to your cable guy coming to your house. So if your getting strange calls from 402-572-7581 it really is nothing to worry about. I would think they should at least tweak their system to leave a message about what they are calling about instead of leaving no message at all.. This company is clearly creating a nuisance from all the people asking about 402-572-7581 on the Internet. Cant anyone put a regulation in place so the owners are required to leave a message from 402-572-7581 so people don't freak out.

Morpheus and Softwrap

Follow up to my dealings with Morpheus and Softwrap.. As Sad as they are.

I know in my last post I was upset that the new upgrade of Morpheus did not go well when I tried to install the new upgrade and went to run the program I just get a "softwrap Critical error" that says "inconsistent file size" and the program will no longer run. Softwrap finally responded to me telling me to get the latest version of their software and reinstall and if that did not work go to the Morpheus FAQ site and if nothing there worked to ask for a refund. Duh,, I already told them I got the latest version and was trying to upgrade and had already been to the FAQ site regarding the problem.

Well I took the time to write them back and explained I was told this is a softwrap install issue as everyone over at Morpheus explained. So I wrote them back about their error and how to fix it over a week later I still have had no response about this error or how to correct it..

To Explain why softwrap is involved apparently softwrap packages the install program and anti-hack security of the software that Morpheus makes.

Its really a sad affair when someone sells you something and just does not want to support it! Its not Morpheus fault but their distribution center Softwrap. I could not recommend them for distribution of my software or anyone else's for that matter.

I am in a bind.. If anyone has had this problem or has a fix for it please leave a comment on how to correct it. I was really enjoying the service until this happened..

I was really enjoying myself when!

Heck, now they really went and pissed me off!
I recently Bought the full blown registered version of Morpheus. I was really enjoying myself downloading and sharing file's after a week I was told there was a new version of the software 5.0 and to download it from Softwrap the people that sell and distribute the Morpheus program.

I thought Hmm, a new version and got excited about what new features would be available. I ran the install the program when to run and then errored out saying "inconsistent File's" nice now the program I paid for does not work. I looked all over the Morpheus site for a solution after all someone else must have had this problem! No such luck, no answer to be found!

I read my email from when I purchased the program from softwrap and it told me to contact them directly and not to contact the author of the program directly for installation issues. So I emailed them with my problem return receipt. My emails are being read apparently but to date almost one week now I have not had a response from them and I have not been able to use the program I paid for. Do you think this is grounds for a charge back?

Burger King Chicken Fries BK

Burger King Chicken Fries BK..

I would never buy this crap.. Simply being the commercial is totally annoying, brainless and unfit for adult television slots. it disturbs my day every time it plays with the obnoxious music made for a 16 year old audience.. BK your marketing director should be shot for this ad. Why did you not target better during children shows.. Instead of during adult themes and times.. The Strategy is more than stupid! This commercial makes me want to puke anytime I hear it..