“I have always thought of Christmastime, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant 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, A Christmas Carol

 “Later in the winter I'd tire of the snow, but Christmas snow was different.” 

― Marie Landry, The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

 “He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of homes, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed of any walk, that anything, could give him so much happiness. ” 

― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

 “Its easier to feel a little more spiritual with a couple of bucks in your pocket.” 

― Craig Ferguson