Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Monday 25 Dec 2017

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. How many observe Christ's birthday!

How few, His precepts! – Benjamin Franklin

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4. Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof...

...that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive. – Stephen Fry

5. 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

6. 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

7. That's the true spirit of Christmas...

...people being helped by people other than me. – Jerry Seinfeld

8. Santa Claus has the right idea...

...Visit people only once a year. – Victor Borge

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

...is their husband. – Joan Rivers