Christmas Time

Famous quotes containing the words christmas time, christmas and/or time:

    Please to put a nickel,
    Please to put a dime.
    How petitions trickle
    In at Christmas time!
    Phyllis McGinley (1905–1978)

    I saw three ships come sailing by,
    Come sailing by, come sailing by,
    I saw three ships come sailing by,
    On Christmas Day in the morning.
    —Unknown. As I Sat on a Sunny Bank. . .

    Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938)

    It is always a sign of an unproductive time when it concerns itself with petty and technical aspects [in philology], and likewise it is a sign of an unproductive person to pursue such trifles.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)