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Christmas itself may be called into question,
If carried so far it creates indigestion.
— Ralph Bergengren
Roses are reddish
Violets are bluish
If it weren’t for Christmas
We’d all be Jewish.
— Benny Hill
Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you’re home.
— Carol Nelson
Bagram Santa
A US soldier dressed up as Santa Claus distributes gifts to other soldiers during Christmas celebrations at Bagram air base, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Dec 25, 2010 (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.
— Bernard Manning

“I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah….”
—William Tecumseh Sherman, in a telegraph to Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, telling him of the capture of Savannah, Georgia.

There’s been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.
— Jerry Falwell
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
In this Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010 picture, Josiah Waikiki, 2, cries as he sits with a man dressed as Santa Claus in Las Cruces, N.M. (AP Photo/Las Cruces Sun-News, Norm Dettlaff)