Al Smith Quotes

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

For me, I think everybody with half a heart tries to do their best to do their part of good during the holiday season.

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.

I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year.

Christmas, my child, is love in action." ~ Dale Evans (1912-2001), American film actress, singer and songwriter. Wife of Roy Rogers.

On Christmas day you can't get sore, your fellow man you must adore. There's time to cheat him all the more the other three hundred and sixty-four

That's the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.

Christmas and the holidays are the season of giving. It's a time when people are more kind and open-hearted.

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

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

I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.

Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.

Its Christmas Eve! Its the one night of the year when we all act a little nicer, we smile a little easier, we cheer a little more. For a couple of hours out of the whole year, we are the people that we always hoped we would be.

God bless us every one! said Tiny Tim, the last of all.

I have always thought of Christmas time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.

Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.

And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!

The greatest thing is not to believe in Santa Claus; it is to be Santa Claus.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

I'm going to North Pole to help out Santa this year.

Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.

I'm a sucker for giving people money on the street. I don't know if it's a good or a bad thing, but I can't help myself.

Charity is willingly given from the heart.

Giving is a really big thing around Christmas, as well it should be. Christmas is about giving, and it all stems from the greatest gift the world has ever received - the gift of Jesus Christ.