Thought for the day or Something to think about.

[SmokeyBob]

"When my hair has all turned gray, will you kiss me then and say that you love me in December as you do in May?” ~ James Walker

“People can't concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces properly if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the 25th of December” ~ Ogden Nash

"The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

[SmokeyBob]

"Put all your eggs in one basket, then watch that basket." ~ Andrew Carnegie

"In cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow." ~ Alexander Pope

"The gardening season officially begins on January 1st, and ends on December 31." ~ Marie Huston

[SmokeyBob]

"I heard a bird sing In the dark of December. A magical thing and sweet to remember." ~ Oliver Herford

"You moon the wrong person at an office party and suddenly you're not 'professional' any more." ~ Jeff Foxworthy

"The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie." ~ Ann Landers

[SmokeyBob]

"Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas." ~ Peg Bracken

"Midwinter sprig is its own season. Sempternal through sodden towards sundown. Suspended in time between pole and tropic." ~ T.S. Elliot.

"The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung." ~ Phillips Brooks

[SmokeyBob]

"Remember, if Christmas isn't found in your heart, you won't find it under a tree." -- Charlotte Carpenter

"Who shall describe the inexpressable tenderness and immortal life of the grim forest, where Nature, though it be midwinter, is ever in her spring, where the moss-grown and decaying trees are not old, but seem to enjoy a perpetual youth." ~ Henry David Thoreau

"Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Claus. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will?" ~ Jon Bon Jovi

[SmokeyBob]

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”
~ Edith Sitwell

"Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'." ~ Bing Crosby

“A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.” ~ Carl Reiner

[SmokeyBob]

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

"Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it." ~ Richard Lamm

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” ~ Charles Dickens

[SmokeyBob]

"Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence." -- Joan Mills

"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

"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

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[SmokeyBob]

"Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year." ~ Victor Borge

"Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.” ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

"Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love." ~ Hamilton Wright Mabi

[SmokeyBob]

"Christmas ... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart." ~ Freya Stark

“Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give." ~ Ben Carson


"At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year." ~ Thomas Tusser

[SmokeyBob]

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

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” ~ Charles Dickens

When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things – not the great occasions – give off the greatest glow of happiness.”
~ Bob Hope

[SmokeyBob]

“There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus.” ~ Bob Phillips


“It’s not what you eat between Christmas and New Year you should worry about, it’s what you eat between New Year and Christmas.” ~ Unknown


“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.” ~ Markus Zusak

[SmokeyBob]

“Snow falling soundlessly in the middle of the night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity” ~ Novala Takemoto

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” ~ George Burns

“The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career. ”
~ C.S. Lewis

[SmokeyBob]

For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice. - T.S. Eliot Happy New Year Everyone!

[SmokeyBob]

Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...”
~ Alfred Tennyson

"New Year's Day... now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual." ~ Mark Twain

"Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us." ~ Hal Borland

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