Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Thursday 25 Dec 2014
- 1. 'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS…
- 2. CHRISTMAS TIME! THAT MAN MUST…
- 3. CHRISTMAS TO A CHILD IS…
- 4. CHRISTMAS AT MY HOUSE IS…
- 5. MY IDEA OF CHRISTMAS…
- 6. THAT'S THE TRUE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS…
- 7. SANTA CLAUS HAS THE RIGHT IDEA…
- 8. THE ONE THING WOMEN…
- 9. AND GIRLS IN SLACKS REMEMBER DAD…
- 10. HOW MANY OBSERVE CHRIST'S BIRTHDAY!
1. 'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS…
…when all through the house / Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.' – Clement Clarke Moore
2. CHRISTMAS TIME! THAT MAN MUST…
…be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas. – Charles Dickens
3. CHRISTMAS TO A CHILD IS…
…the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive. – Stephen Fry
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4. CHRISTMAS AT MY HOUSE IS…
…always at least six or seven times more pleasant than anywhere else. We start drinking early. And while everyone else is seeing only one Santa Claus, we'll be seeing six or seven. – WC Fields
5. MY IDEA OF CHRISTMAS…
…whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that? – Bob Hope
6. THAT'S THE TRUE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS…
…people being helped by people other than me. – Jerry Seinfeld
7. SANTA CLAUS HAS THE RIGHT IDEA…
…Visit people only once a year. – Victor Borge
8. THE ONE THING WOMEN…
…don’t want to find in their stockings on Christmas morning is their husband. – Joan Rivers
9. AND GIRLS IN SLACKS REMEMBER DAD…
…And oafish louts remember Mum / And sleepless children’s hearts are glad / And Christmas-morning bells say ‘Come!’ – John Betjeman
10. HOW MANY OBSERVE CHRIST'S BIRTHDAY!
...How few, His precepts! – Benjamin Franklin
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