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Christmas is a baby shower that went totally overboard.

Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year.

My husband’s idea of getting the Christmas spirit is to become Scrooge.

Three phrases that sum up Christmas are: Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men, and Batteries not Included. – Author Unknown

Christmas shopping. Never an easy or a pleasant task. -Harry in Love Actually

Dear Santa, I’m writing to let you know that I’ve been naughty and it was worth it!

Dear Santa, This year, please give me a fat bank account and a slim body. And please don’t mix those two up like you did last year. Thanks.

Mentally I am ready for Christmas, financially I am not ready for Christmas. – Author Unknown

Christmas is a magical time of year… I just watched all my money magically disappear. – Author Unknown

Nothing says holiday like a cheese log. – Ellen DeGeneres

Christmas is a baby shower that went totally overboard.– Andy Borowitz

Christmas is the season when you buy this year’s gifts with next year’s money. – Author Unknown

Be careful with drinking this Christmas. I got so drunk last night I found myself dancing in a cheesy bar… or, as you like to call it, delicatessen.

Erma Bombeck quote "There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child"

There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. – Erma Bombeck

Christmas, here again. Let us raise a loving cup; Peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.

Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.

Christmas is the season when you buy this year’s gifts with next year’s money.

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.

Andy Borowitz funny Christmas quote "Christmas sweaters are only acceptable as a cry for help"

Christmas sweaters are only acceptable as a cry for help. – Andy Borowitz

The one thing women don’t want to find in their stockings on Christmas morning is their husband.

Johnny Carson quote "Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas"

Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas. – Johnny Carson

Many banks have a new kind of Christmas club in operation. The new club helps you save money to pay for last year’s gifts.

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"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." -Andy Rooney

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. – Andy Rooney

The magi, as you know, were wise men — wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.

Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.

Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts is that we don’t quite know how to put our love into words.

"One good thing about Christmas shopping is it toughens you for the January sales." -Grace Kriley

One good thing about Christmas shopping is it toughens you for the January sales. – Grace Kriley

Three phrases that sum up Christmas are: Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men, and Batteries not Included.

Conan O'Brien Christmas quote "There are 17 more shopping days until Christmas. So, guys, that means 16 more days till we start shopping, right?"

There are 17 more shopping days until Christmas. So, guys, that means 16 more days till we start shopping, right? – Conan O’Brien

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.

Keep your friends close, your enemies closer, and receipts for all major purchases.

I haven’t taken my Christmas lights down. They look so nice on the pumpkin.

Robert Godden funny Christmas quote "At Christmas, tea is compulsory. Relatives are optional"

At Christmas, tea is compulsory. Relatives are optional. – Robert Godden

This holiday season, no matter what your religion is, please take a moment to reflect on why it’s better than all the other ones.

The principal advantage of the non-parental lifestyle is that on Christmas Eve you need not be struck dumb by the three most terrifying words that the government allows to be printed on any product: ‘Some assembly required.'

Nothing’s as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.

Bernard Manning Christmas quote "I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, 'toys not included.'"

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, ‘toys not included.' – Bernard Manning

What I like about Christmas is that you can make people forget the past with the present.

I hate the radio this time of year because they play All I Want For Christmas Is You like, every other song. And that’s just not enough.

Adults can take a simple holiday for Children and screw it up. What began as a presentation of simple gifts to delight and surprise children around the Christmas tree has culminated in a woman unwrapping six shrimp forks from her dog, who drew her name.

Funny Christmas quote "The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other"

The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other. – Johnny Carson

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

I love Christmas. I receive a lot of wonderful presents I can’t wait to exchange.

That’s the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.

Do give books – religious or otherwise – for Christmas. They’re never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.

Larry Wilde Christmas Tree quote "Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall"

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall. – Larry Wilde

For Christmas this year, try giving less. Start with less attitude. There’s more than enough of that in the world as it is – and people will usually just give it back anyway!

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.

Aren’t we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas. You know, the birth of Santa?

Carol Nelson funny Christmas quote "Christmas is a time when you get homesick, even when you’re home"

Christmas is a time when you get homesick, even when you’re home. – Carol Nelson

Let me see if I’ve got this Santa business straight. You say he wears a beard, has no discernible source of income and flies to cities all over the world under cover of darkness? You sure this guy isn’t laundering illegal drug money?

Who’s the bane of Santa’s life? The elf and safety officer.

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Santa Claus wears a Red Suit, he must be a communist. And a beard and long hair, must be a pacifist. What’s in that pipe that he’s smoking?

Ellen Degeneres quote "Nothing says holiday like a cheese log"

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.

Did you ever notice that life seems to follow certain patterns? Like I noticed that every year around this time, I hear Christmas music.

I bought my brother some gift wrap for Christmas. I took it to the gift wrap department and told them to wrap it, but in a different print so he would know when to stop unwrapping.

People can’t concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces properly if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the twenty-fifth of December.

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

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.

Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period. – Fanny Wright

Elf has become this big holiday movie, and I remember running around the streets of New York in tights saying, ‘This could be the last movie I ever make,’ and I could never have predicted that it’d become such a popular film.

Next to a circus there ain’t nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

Louis C.K. quote "One thing I learned from drinking is that if you ever go Christmas caroling, you should go with a group of people. And also go in mid-December"

One thing I learned from drinking is that if you ever go Christmas caroling, you should go with a group of people. And also go in mid-December. – Louis C.K.

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.

Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money.

A Christmas shopper’s complaint is one of long-standing.

Christmas and the New Year are actually two holidays. So there is a plural, which in the English language, necessitates the use of ‘s.’ I suppose you could say ‘Merry Christmas’ and ‘Happy New Year,’ but you probably have sh*t to do.

I left Santa gluten-free cookies and organic soy milk and he put a solar panel in my stocking.

P.J. O'Rourke quote "There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them"

There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them. – P.J. O’Rourke

Ever wonder what people got Jesus for Christmas? It’s like, ‘Oh great, socks. You know I’m dying for your sins right? Yeah, but thanks for the socks! They’ll go great with my sandals. What am I, German?'

Every year, Christmas gets longer and longer, and you don’t care, do you? Every year, you just take more of the calendar for yourself. How long does it take you people to shop? It’s beyond belief! It’s insane! When I was a kid, Halloween was Halloween, and Santa wasn’t poking his ass into it!

This past Christmas, I told my girlfriend for months in advance that all I wanted was an Xbox. That’s it. Beginning and end of list, Xbox. You know what she got me? A homemade frame with a picture of us from our first date together. Which was fine. Because I got her an Xbox.

Ogden Nash quote "Merry Christmas, nearly everybody!"

Merry Christmas, nearly everybody! – Ogden Nash

I’ve had this look for about a year. I usually grow this beard out around Christmas. I like to go to malls dressed as Jesus, and I like to then walk around the mall and go, ‘No! No! This wasn’t what it was supposed to be about, people!’ Then if there’s a Santa at the mall, I walk up to him and say, ‘Listen, fat man, you’re just a clown at my birthday party.'

I set a personal record on Christmas. I got my shopping done three weeks ahead of time. I had all the presents back at my apartment, I was halfway through wrapping them, and I realized, ‘Damn, I used the wrong wrapping paper.’ The paper I used said, ‘Happy Birthday.’ I didn’t want to waste it, so I just wrote ‘Jesus’ on it.

If you can’t wrap Christmas presents well, at least make it look like they put up a good fight.

Christmas: it’s the only religious holiday that’s also a federal holiday. That way, Christians can go to their services, and everyone else can sit at home and reflect on the true meaning of the separation of church and state.

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Phyllis Diller Christmas party quote "What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day"

What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day. – Phyllis Diller

People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas.

Mentally I am ready for Christmas, financially I am not ready for Christmas.

Christmas is a magical time of year… I just watched all my money magically disappear.

Even before Christmas has said Hello, it’s saying ‘Buy Buy’.

Sending Christmas cards is a good way to let your friends and family know that you think they’re worth the price of a stamp.

Christmas Shopping: Wouldn’t it be wonderful to find one gift that you didn’t have to dust, that had to be used right away, that was practical, fit everyone, was personal and would be remembered for a long time? I penciled in Gift certificate for a flu shot.

Anyone who believes that men are the equal of women has never seen a man trying to wrap a Christmas present.

The outdoor Christmas lights, green and red and gold and blue and twinkling, remind me that most people are that way all year round — kind, generous, friendly and with an occasional moment of ecstasy. But Christmas is the only time they dare reveal themselves.

There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.

I get a little behind during Lent, but it comes out even at Christmas.

My mother-in-law has come round to our house at Christmas seven years running. This year we’re having a change. We’re going to let her in.

Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.

Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails, or cars slamming into each other or burning buildings. It’s a general clean-out.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

It may be a cliche, but it’s true – the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.

The best Christmas present I got from my husband was a week to do whatever I wanted.

Funny Christmas Quotes from Books, Films, and Television

Bart Simpson Santa Clause quote "You know you’re getting old, when Santa starts looking younger."

You know you’re getting old, when Santa starts looking younger. – Bart Simpson in The Simpsons: Miracle on Evergreen Terrace

Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer… Who’d have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?

Charlie, stay away from those things. They’re reindeer, you don’t know where they’ve been. They all look like they’ve got key lime disease.

Charlie Brown Christmas quote "Rats. Nobody sent me a Christmas card today. I almost wish there weren't a holiday season. I know nobody likes me. Why do we have to have a holiday season to emphasize it?"

Rats. Nobody sent me a Christmas card today. I almost wish there weren’t a holiday season. I know nobody likes me. Why do we have to have a holiday season to emphasize it? – Charlie Brown in A Charlie Brown Christmas Movie

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.

How can you give Kris Kringle a parking ticket on Christmas Eve? What’s next, rabies shots for the Easter Bunny?

Love Actually quote "Christmas shopping. Never an easy or a pleasant task."

Christmas shopping. Never an easy or a pleasant task. – Harry in Love Actually

One can never have enough socks. Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn’t get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.

If you see a sign that says ‘Peep Show’, that doesn’t mean they’re letting you look at presents before Christmas.

At Christmas, play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year. – Thomas Tusser

Christmas sweaters are only acceptable as a cry for help. -Andy Borowitz

Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money. – Author Unknown

Sending Christmas cards is a good way to let your friends and family know that you think they’re worth the price of a stamp. – Melanie White

My husband’s idea of getting the Christmas spirit is to become Scrooge.– Melanie White

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. – Dave Barry

Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered. What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day. ~ Phyllis Diller

Why is Christmas just like a day at the office? You do all the work and the fat guy with the suit gets all the credit. ~ Anonymous

Last year, I asked Santa for the sexiest person ever for Christmas. I woke up in a box.

Keep your friends close, your enemies closer, and receipts for all major purchases. – Bridger Winegar

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included. ~ Bernard Manning

I haven’t taken my Christmas lights down. They look so nice on the pumpkin. – Winston Spear

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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

One thing I learned from drinking is that if you ever go Christmas caroling, you should go with a group of people. And also go in mid-December. -Louis C.K.

There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas. – Robert Staughton Lynd

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included. – Bernard Manning

What I like about Christmas is that you can make people forget the past with the present. – Don Marquis

I love Christmas. I receive a lot of wonderful presents I can’t wait to exchange. – Henny Youngman

There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ~ Erma Bombeck

The one thing women don’t want to find in their stockings on Christmas morning is their husband. – Joan Rivers

Anyone who believes that men are the equal of women has never seen a man trying to wrap a Christmas present. ~ Anonymous

Do give books – religious or otherwise – for Christmas. They’re never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal. – Lenore Hershey

For Christmas this year, try giving less. Start with less attitude. There’s more than enough of that in the world as it is – and people will usually just give it back anyway! – Anne Bristow

What do you call people who are afraid of Santa Claus? Claustrophobic. ~ Anonymous

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. ~ Jay Leno

Christmas is a race to see which gives out first – your money or your feet. ~ Anonymous

Did you ever notice that life seems to follow certain patterns? Like I noticed that every year around this time, I hear Christmas music. ~ Tom Sims

I left Santa gluten-free cookies and organic soy milk and he put a solar panel in my stocking. – Author Unknown

This holiday season, no matter what your religion is, please take a moment to reflect on why it’s better than all the other ones. – Guy Endore Kaiser

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together. – Garrison Keillor

The one thing women don’t want to find in their stockings on Christmas morning is their husband. ~ Joan Rivers

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white man would be coming into my neighborhood after dark. ~ Dick Gregory

Be careful with drinking this Christmas. I got so drunk last night I found myself dancing in a cheesy bar… or, as you like to call it, delicatessen. – Sean Hughes

Christmas, here again. Let us raise a loving cup; Peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up. – Wendy Cope

The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other. -Johnny Carson

Aren’t we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas. You know, the birth of Santa? – Matt Groening

Who’s the bane of Santa’s life? The elf and safety officer. – Catherine Tate

Nothing’s as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas. – Kin Hubbard

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That’s the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me. – Jerry Seinfeld

If you can’t wrap Christmas presents well, at least make it look like they put up a good fight. – Author Unknown

Even before Christmas has said Hello, it’s saying ‘Buy Buy’. – Robert Paul

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month. ~ Harlan Miller

The magi, as you know, were wise men — wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents. – O. Henry

Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts is that we don’t quite know how to put our love into words. – Harlan Miller

People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas. – Anonymous

Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people once a year. – Victor Borge

Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day. ~ Helen Steiner Rice

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours. – John B. Priestly

Next to a circus there ain’t nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit. – Frank McKinney Hubbard

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive. – Stephen John Fry

It may be a cliche, but it’s true – the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself. – Julie Burchill

I get a little behind during Lent, but it comes out even at Christmas. – Frank Butler

Christmas is a state of mind and that special feeling that only comes with an empty bank account. – Melanie White