#christmas

The truth is Christmas evolved from the Roman holiday Saturnalia, a winter festival where men gave gifts to each other. They also would get drunk, have sex with each other and beat their wives ↗

— Huey Freeman The Boondocks

#huey-freeman #jesus #the-boondocks #men

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts! ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#christmas #religion #religion

In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it 'Christmas' and went to church; the Jews called it 'Hanukkah' and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say 'Merry Christmas!' or 'Happy Hanukkah!' or (to the atheists) 'Look out for the wall! ↗

— Dave Barry

#hanukkah #holidays #christianity

Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more! ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#thought

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. ↗

— Shirley Temple

#asked #autograph #believing #claus #department

Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. ↗

— Washington Irving

#charity

So many people release albums before Christmas and they get lost in the Christmas rush. ↗

— Bonnie Tyler

#before #christmas #get #lost #many

Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#cheese #holidays #like #log #nothing

Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas. ↗

— Pope John XXIII

#family

It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#snowman #snowmen #food