- "The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other." - Burton Hillis, columnist and author
- 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, former Governor of Colorado
- "Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money." - Author unknown
- "A Christmas shopper's complaint is one of long-standing." - Author unknown
- "Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping." - Jon Anderson, musician
- "Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts is that we don't quite know how to put our love into words." - Harlan Miller, writer
- “Three phrases that sum up Christmas are: Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men, and Batteries not included.” – English Proverb
- "I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph." - Shirley Temple, child actor, and former U.S. ambassador
- Christmas gift suggestions:
To your enemy, forgiveness
To an opponent, tolerance
To a friend, your heart
To a customer, service
To all, charity
To every child, a good example
To yourself, respect
Oren Arnold, author
- "One of the nice things about Christmas is that you can make people forget the past with a present." - Author Unknown
