Favourite Christmas Quotes & Sayings

Global warming is not a threat. But environmentalism's response to it is ... Even if global warming is a fact, the free citizens of an industrial civilization will have no great difficulty in coping with it-that is, of course, if their ability to use energy and to produce is not crippled by the environmental movement and by government controls otherwise inspired. — George Reisman

What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

I stopped going to Kingdom Hall, the church, when I was 11 years old, so I was very young. They don't celebrate birthdays, you get no Christmas, so it's a very difficult religion for children to get into. And they do a lot of finger-pointing among the Jehovah's Witnesses. — Ja Rule

Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost. — Aesop

I belong to the opposition party, which is called life. — Honore De Balzac

John was at his most relaxed with Ringo, who had him in stitches with his jokes. — Cynthia Lennon

We really believe that Walt Disney is a very able company with great depth and a great set of franchises. — Bob Iger

For the core of religion is the twinned principle of arrogance and fear. Fear of oblivion. Fear of an unfair life and an arbitrary universe. Fear of there simply being nothing, no great and grand scheme to existence. The fear, ultimately, of being powerless. — Aaron Dembski-Bowden

Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents, Touch'd by the Midas finger of the state, Bleed gold for ministers to sport away. Drink, and be mad then; 'tis your country bids! — William Cowper

The most prolific and accomplished hunters were not the most bloodthirsty and indefatigable. They were the most cool and empathetic. They were the ones who were able to assimilate their quarry's mind-set
to see through the eyes of their prey and thus reliably predict its deft, innate trajectories of evasion. — Kevin Dutton

Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it's usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is 'fairy lights,' which we boringly refer to as 'Christmas lights.' — Sloane Crosley

Farmers' markets are one of my favourite sources for Christmas goodies. — Sheherazade Goldsmith