It’s the perfect time of year to write something special to your family and friends. They’ve been such a wonderful part of your life, but it can be hard to know where to start when you pick up the pen. That’s why we’ve pulled together 100 holiday sayings that will inspire you to spread the holiday cheer. From funny sayings to heartwarming holiday messages, we’ve got you covered.
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Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.
— Dale Evans
The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear
— Elf
It's all fun and games 'til santa checks the naughty list
— Author Unknown
The best of all gifts around the Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
— Burton Hillis
Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.
— Janice Maeditere
Thanks for agreeing not to buy each other anything for Christmas and then making me feel guilty by buying something anyway.
— Author Unknown
Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.
— Larry Wilde
Ho! Ho! Ho!
— Author Unknown
For the spirit of Christmas fulfils the greatest hunger of mankind
— Loring A. Schuler
My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?
— Bob Hope
At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.
— Thomas Tusser
Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
— Alexander Smith
Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
— Victor Borge
Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection
— Winston Churchill
You know you're getting older, when Santa starts looking younger.
— Robert Paul
Wishing you a joyous Christmas and a happy New Year.
— Author Unknown
Christmas is the festival of love and spirit. So let us drink the spirit to feel love. Merry Christmas to You.
— Author Unknown
May the spirit of Christmas be with you throughout the New Year
— Author Unknown
Christmas calories don't count!
— Author Unknown
I know you don't like listening to me, but please take my advice. Have a merry Christmas!
— Author Unknown
You should be proud of me. I found time to write and send Christmas cards this year.
— Author Unknown
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
— Author Unknown
If you mistakenly wrap a Christmas present in paper that says “Happy Birthday”... You can always write “to Jesus” on it.
— Author Unknown
Don't get your tinsel in a tangle
— Author Unknown
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
Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.
— Ruth E. Renkel
There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
— Edith Wharton
May love and light fill your home and heart at Hanukkah
— Author Unknown
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
— Anthony D'Angelo
Hanukkah is about the spark of the divine in all of us made in God's image.
— Suzanne Fields
If you can't say something nice, say it in yiddish
— Author Unknown
May the Spirit of Hanukkah be with you throughout the New Year
— Author Unknown
May the lights of Hanukkah usher in a better world for all humankind
— Author Unknown
Colorful candles burning bright, each lit on eight very special nights
— Author Unknown
The most wonderful part of Hanukkah is family and friends. May your season be full of wonder!
— Author Unknown
Let us celebrate spirituality over materialism. Lord's love over sadness, and light over darkness. Happy Hanukkah!
— Author Unknown
On Hanukkah we are reminded of the importance of faith, which is the light that guides us through tough times.
— Author Unknown
It's not just the Festival of Lights. May it also be a festival of hope, happiness, love, and health.
— Author Unknown
A candle is a small thing. But one candle can light another and see how its own light increases, as a candle gives its flame to the other. You are such a light.
— Moshe Davis
The darkness of the whole world cannot swallow the glowing of a candle
— Robert Altinger
I wish you immense warmth and happiness at Hanukkah. May the light of the Menorah glow in everlasting blessings for you and your family.
— Author Unknown
My Hanukkah wish is to be in a relationship that lasts longer than eight days.
— Author Unknown
Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame. Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart.
— Hannah Senesh
On Hanukkah, the first dark night, Light yourself a candle bright. I'll you, if you will me invite to dance within that gentle light.
— Nicholas Gordan
Have a warm and cozy holiday
— Author Unknown
Celebrate the spirit of the season
— Author Unknown
Remember that the important thing is not what you give, or how you wrap it. The important thing, during this very special time of year, is that you save the receipt.
— Dave Barry
Best wishes to you in this season of merriment
— Author Unknown
May the true spirit of the season find you and fill your heart with joy
— Author Unknown
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. Wishing you happiness.
— Helen Keller
May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility
— Mary Anne
Love the giver more than the gift
— Brigham Young
Some people are worth melting for
— Frozen
Season's Greetings
— Author Unknown
May the magic and the wonder of the holiday season stay with you throughout the coming year
— Author Unknown
The most wonderful time of the year
— Author Unknown
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Hoping you are surrounded by love and warmth this holiday season
— Author Unknown
Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log.
— Ellen DeGeneres
Peace on Earth and Joy to all
— Author Unknown
I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.
— Fred Rogers
The amount of time and energy we spend putting up and taking down holiday decorations tells me our 'top of the food chain' claim is invalid.
— Linda in Disguise
Hope the holidays bring you many reasons to smile
— Author Unknown
May your holidays be merry and bright!
— Author Unknown
Wintry Wishes. May this season bring you the gifts of peace, hope and joy.
— Author Unknown
May songs of joy fill your home with warmth and your heart with happiness this holiday
— Author Unknown
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
— John Donne
In union there is strength
— Aesop
Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable
— Kenyan Proverb
We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.
— Maya Angelou
Kwanzaa is a special time to remember the ancestors, the bridge builders and the leaders
— Dorothy Winbush Riley
May you rejoice in the tradition of Kwanzaa
— Author Unknown
Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future
— Robert Collyer
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
— Alexander the Great
The seven principles of Kwanzaa — unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith — teach us that when we come together to strengthen our families and communities and honor the lesson of the past, we can face the future with joy and optimism.
— President Bill Clinton
The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
— James Baldwin
Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.
— Virginia Burden
I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.
— Ralph Abernathy
Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.
— Henry Ford
Many hands make light work.
— John Heywood
The purpose of life is life purpose.
— Robert Byrne
The time is always right to do what is right.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
— Oprah Winfrey
Glad tidings for the holidays and a Happy New Year
— Author Unknown
Wishing you a festive holiday season and New Year!
— Author Unknown
Wishing you good times, good cheer and a Happy New Year!
— Author Unknown
Warmest Greetings and Best Wishes for the New Year
— Author Unknown
Here's to a healthy, happy and peaceful New Year
— Author Unknown
Good times, good cheer, and a happy new year!
— Author Unknown
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
— Bill Vaughan
New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time
— James Agate
A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one Year and out the other
— Author Unknown
My new year’s wish for you is that your life is full of love and prosperity. I hope this year is the best year ever.
— Author Unknown
Here's to sending out the old and ringing in the new! Happy New Year!
— Author Unknown
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.
— Edith Lovejoy Pierce
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
— Henry Ward Beecher
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes.
— G.K. Chesterton
Best wishes for a happy new year filled with health, happiness, and success
— Author Unknown
Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.
— Brad Paisley
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