Christmas
Merry Christmas
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
Charles Dickens
Unto you this day is born a Saviour.
God Bless Us, Every One
We the People
Noel
Believe
O Holy Night
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. ~Norman Vincent Peale
May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessings all year through!
Remember
This December,
That love weighs more than gold!
~Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon
Roses are reddish
Violets are bluish
If it weren't for Christmas
We'd all be Jewish.
~Benny Hill
I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Winter
Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours." ~Robert Byrne
Winter dies into the spring, to be born again in the autumn. ~Marche Blumenberg
Every winter,
When the great sun has turned his face away,
The earth goes down into a vale of grief,
And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables,
Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay -
Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.
~Charles Kingsley
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. ~William Blake
Valentine's Day
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee with the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
XOXO
Be Mine
All because two people fell in love.
Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine! ~Thomas Hood
Many are the stars I see, but in my eye no star like thee.
For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
~Rosemonde Gerard
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. ~Author Unknown
Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. ~Author Unknown
Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. ~Author Unknown
Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. ~Author Unknown
A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you.
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. ~William Shakespeare
Kisses are a better fate
than wisdom.
~e.e. cummings
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? ~Author Unknown
Who, being loved, is poor? ~Oscar Wilde
In melody divine,
My heart it beats to rapturous love,
I long to call you mine.
~Author Unknown
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. ~Robert Browning
We loved with a love that was more than love. ~Edgar Allan Poe
A bell is no bell 'til you ring it,
A song is no song 'til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay -
Love isn’t love
'Til you give it away.
~Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music, "You Are Sixteen (Reprise)"
I've fallen in love many times... always with you. ~Author Unknown
Love is the greatest refreshment in life. ~Pablo Picasso
The most beautiful view is the one I share with you. ~Author Unknown
Spring
Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!" ~Robin Williams
It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! ~Mark Twain
Awake, thou wintry earth -
Fling off thy sadness!
Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth
Your ancient gladness!
~Thomas Blackburn, "An Easter Hymn"
No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb
The year's at the spring
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hillside's dew-pearled;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn;
God's in His heaven -
All's right with the world!
~Robert Browning
April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. ~William Shakespeare
The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring. ~Bern Williams
St. Patrick's Day
Kiss Me, I'm Irish
If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? ~Stanislaw J. Lec
For each petal on the shamrock
This brings a wish your way -
Good health, good luck, and happiness
For today and every day.
~Author Unknown
May your blessings outnumber
The shamrocks that grow,
And may trouble avoid you
Wherever you go.
~Irish Blessing
May the Irish hills caress you.
May her lakes and rivers bless you.
May the luck of the Irish enfold you.
May the blessings of Saint Patrick behold you.
~Irish Blessing
When Irish eyes are smiling,
'Tis like a morn in spring.
With a lilt of Irish laughter
You can hear the angels sing.
~Author Unknown
May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light,
May good luck pursue you each morning and night.
~Irish Blessing
Easter
He is Risen!
But from this earth, this grave, this dust,
My God shall raise me up, I trust. ~Walter Raleigh
For I remember it is Easter morn,
And life and love and peace are all new born. ~Alice Freeman Palmer
There is not room for Death,
Nor atom that his might could render void:
Thou - Thou art Being and Breath,
And what Thou art may never be destroyed. ~Emily Bronte
And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departed, and behold, He is here. ~St Augustine
Angels, roll the rock away;
Death, yield up thy mighty prey:
See, He rises from the tomb,
Glowing with immortal bloom. ~Thomas Scott, "Easter Angels"
Summer
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. ~Russel Baker
A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ~James Dent
Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare,
And left the flushed print in a poppy there.
~Francis Thompson
To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie -
True Poems flee.
~Emily Dickinson
There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart. ~Celia Thaxter
The summer night is like a perfection of thought. ~Wallace Stevens
In summer, the song sings itself. ~William Carlos Williams
Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. ~Sam Keen
Do what we can, summer will have its flies. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Patriotic
Land of the free, because of the brave
God Bless America
You're the emblem of
The land I love.
The home of the free and the brave.
~George M. Cohan
When Freedom from her mountain height
Unfurled her standard to the air,
She tore the azure robe of night,
And set the stars of glory there.
~Joseph Rodman Drake, The American Flag
Cheers for the sailors that fought on the wave for it,
Cheers for the soldiers that always were brave for it,
Tears for the men that went down to the grave for it,
Here comes the flag!
~Arthur Macy, The Flag
You're a grand old flag,
You're a high flying flag
And forever in peace may you wave.
~George M. Cohan
Thanksgiving/Fall
Happy Fall, Ya'll
Give Thanks
So once in every year we throng
Upon a day apart,
To praise the Lord with feast and song
In thankfulness of heart.
~Arthur Guiterman, The First Thanksgiving
He who thanks but with the lips
Thanks but in part;
The full, the true Thanksgiving
Comes from the heart.
~J.A. Shedd
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. ~Erma Bombeck
For flowers that bloom about our feet;
For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet;
For song of bird, and hum of bee;
For all things fair we hear or see,
Father in heaven, we thank Thee!
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thou hast given so much to me,
Give one thing more, - a grateful heart;
Not thankful when it pleaseth me,
As if Thy blessings had spare days,
But such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
~George Herbert
Forever on Thanksgiving Day
The heart will find the pathway home.
~Wilbur D. Nesbit
O Lord that lends me life,
Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness.
~William Shakespeare
Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel. ~Author Unknown
May your stuffing be tasty
May your turkey plump,
May your potatoes and gravy
Have nary a lump.
May your yams be delicious
And your pies take the prize,
And may your Thanksgiving dinner
Stay off your thighs!
~Author Unknown
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