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For many years I enjoyed the pleasure of cruising on my yacht all summer long and these were my best holidays. In mid-May, we'd start in St Tropez. I'd collect my bikinis from my home there and then we'd go up to Cannes for the Film Festival, on to Monte Carlo for the Grand Prix and then to Italy.
Sep 17, 2025
I have never gone on a real trip, never taken a holiday. The best holiday for me is spent in my workshops when nearly everybody else is on vacation.
The best holiday I ever had was the first one I went on without my parents, when I was 17.
To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.
Good news from heaven the angels bring, Glad tidings to the earth they sing: To us this day a child is given, To crown us with the joy of heaven.
Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.
May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility.
No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.
The secret anniversaries of the heart.
Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.
Christmas is for children. But it is for grownups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide bound hearts.
The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others' burdens, easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.
I have always thought of Christmas time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.
Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.
Love the giver more than the gift.
Remember This December, That love weighs more than gold!
At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.
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!
Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind.
But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, 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.
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.
Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive.
Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.
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.
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind; Teach us to be patient and always to be kind.
Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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?
Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.
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." ~ (1919-), American writer, producer, humorist.
Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family.
After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.
Molly: You don't like New Years Eve? Are you insane? It's literally the best holiday ever. You just party all night and it doesn't matter what stupid stuff you do because the year's over and you get a brand new start in the morning.
England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. 'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.
Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Things must be felt with the heart.
As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same.
For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance.
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.
To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To you, respect.
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.