These are our 10 favorite quotes throughout the many years of Christmas tradition. Did your favorite make the list? Let us know any we missed in the comments below.

  • 10

    Helen Keller

    "The only blind person at Christmastime is he who has not Christmas in his heart."

  • 9

    Johnny Carson

    "The price of Christmas toys is outrageous -- a hundred dollars, two hundred dollars for video games for the youngsters. I remember a Christmas years ago when my son was a kid. I bought him a tank. It was about a hundred dollars, a lot of money in those days. It was the kind of tank you could actually get inside and ride in. He played in the box it came in. It taught me a very valuable lesson. Next year he got a box. And I got a hundred dollars' worth of scotch."

  • 8

    Bart Simpson

    "If TV has taught me anything, it's that miracles always happen to poor kids at Christmas. It happened to Tiny Tim, it happened to Charlie Brown, it happened to the Smurfs, and it's going to happen to us."

  • 7

    Charles Dickens

    "Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christmas fire, and make the little picture shining in our bright young eyes, complete."

  • 6

    Norman Vincent Peale

    "Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful."

  • 5

    Larry Wilde

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

  • 4

    Dave Barry

    "Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in the Holiday Season, that very special time of year when we join with our loved ones in sharing centuries-old traditions such as trying to find a parking space at the mall. We traditionally do this in my family by driving around the parking lot until we see a shopper emerge from the mall, then we follow her, in very much the same spirit as the Three Wise Men, who 2,000 years ago followed a star, week after week, until it led them to a parking space."

  • 3

    Washington Irving

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

  • 2

    Francis P. Church (From the New York Sun, September 21, 1897.)

    "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no child-like faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished. Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies!"

  • 1

    Charles Dickens

    "Bah Hum Bug"

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