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Humorous Thoughts on Christmas

The day after Thanksgiving is the biggest shopping day of the year, the veritable starting gun for the Christmas shopping season. If you go to the mall on that day, you are more or less agreeing to participate in various forms of arm to arm combat.

From shopping to cooking to social obligations, Christmas can really wear you out. Don't let it. Take a step back from the madness and have a good laugh. The following quotes should make you giggle. If not, rent a movie like Knocked Up to de-stress.

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph. - Shirley Temple

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

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.

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

Christmas is the Disneyfication of Christianity - Don Cupitt

Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year - and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority. - W.J. Cameron

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

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind. - Mary Ellen Chase

There has been only one Christmas - the rest are anniversaries. - W. J. Cameron

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

Whatever your views on the holiday season, it does present one undeniable benefit to all of us. What is it? It is some time off to contemplate where we are in life. Little work is done in the last week of the year, so enjoy it!