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Ingratitude is monstrous.
Sep 10, 2025
A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people.
A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them.
Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.
I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses.
One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.
One can never have enough socks
Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.
I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.
Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.
The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says: “Merry Christmas”-not “Weep and Repent.” And the good will is expressed in a material, earthly form-by giving presents to one's friends, or by sending them cards in token of remembrance . . . .
And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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.
the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you
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.
The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
Christmas has been a season of mixed interests and meanings, but the very foundation, of course, is its religious significance. No matter what other personal desires or crises we have faced, I've never forgotten that this is the time to celebrate the birth of the Baby Jesus, and the impact of this event on the history of the world.
Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first. The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world of the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years... Underneath all the bulging bundles is this beating Christmas heart.
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.
Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment.
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.
Unless it's out of the goodness of someone's heart, I don't like having things given to me for free. I like working hard for what I earn. It gives me a sense of gratitude, and that's the only way I can truly appreciate it.
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.
I send my thoughts afar, and let them paint your Christmas Day at home.
The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.
Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.
Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts.
Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young.
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.
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.
Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.
Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.