We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand ~Randy Pausch
Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind; Teach us to be patient and always to be kind. — Helen Steiner Rice
To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To you, respect. — Oren Arnold
Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time. — Laura Ingalls Wilder
Home is where someone runs to greet you.
I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards. — Berkeley Breathed
O Christmas Sun! What holy task is thine!
To fold a world in the embrace of God! — Guy Wetmore Carryl
The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other. — Johnny Carson
Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas. — Kin Hubbard
Christmas Greeting Card Quotes
It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air. — William Thomas Ellis
Great little One! whose all-embracing birth
Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth. — Richard Crashaw
For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home. — William Jewett Tucker
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air. — William Thomas Ellis
Roses are reddish
Violets are bluish
If it weren't for Christmas
We'd all be Jewish. — Benny Hill
Christmas is for children. But it is for grownups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide bound hearts. — Lenora Mattingly Weber
That's the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me. — Jerry Seinfeld
Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year. — E. M. Forster
Christmas Card Greetings Quotes
And the more you spend in blessing
The poor and lonely and sad,
The more of your heart's possessing
Returns to you glad. — John Greenleaf Whittier
Oh! lovely voices of the sky
Which hymned the Saviour's birth,
Are ye not singing still on high,
Ye that sang, "Peace on earth"? — Felicia Hemans
I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress. — May Sarton
Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed. — P. J. O'Rourke
Christmas Card Quotes
Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day. — Helen Steiner Rice
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white. — Irving Berlin
Thou shalt call his name Jesus. He shall save his people from their sins. — Leonard Ravenhill
A little smile, a word of cheer, A bit of love from someone near, A little gift from one held dear, Best wishes for the coming year. These make a merry christmas! — John Greenleaf Whittier
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. — Norman MacEwen
My first job as a kid was going from door to door selling Christmas cards, to raise money for my grandmother's hip replacement. Because, you know... You break it, you buy it. — Emo Philips
Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered. — Phyllis Diller
Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. — Walter Scott
Christmas is more than a time of music, merriment and mirth; it is a season of meditation, mangers and miracles. Christmas is more than a time of carols, cards and candy; it is a season of dedication and decision. — William Arthur Ward
Holiday Card Quotes
It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it. — Alistair Cooke
Family planning experts are now recommending giving men vasectomy gift cards for the holidays. Talk about taking the jingle out of the bells. — Jay Leno
Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone. — Charles M. Schulz
The magi, as you know, were wise men wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents. — O. Henry
Documenting trips makes them that much richer. I stick in train tickets and business cards from restaurants. It makes the whole experience poetic, describing the sights, smells and sounds around me. It means I can relive the holiday years later. — Hayley Atwell
Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both. — Phillips Brooks
The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear! — Will Ferrell
My mother never liked Mother's Day. She thought it was a fake holiday dreamed up by Hallmark to commodify deep sentiments that couldn't be expressed with a card. — Meghan O'Rourke
Valentines Day Cards Quotes
The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead. — Ann Landers
Valentine's day has gotten blown way out of proportion. Valentine's Day just used to be for your girlfriend or your wife but now everyone's like 'Oh, happy valentine's day!' I even got a Valentine's Day card from my grandmother. How ridiculous is that? We stopped having sex years ago! — Greg Giraldo
My wife sent me a Valentine card that said, "Take my heart, take my lips, take my soul." That's just like her. She kept the good parts for herself. — Milton Berle
Valentine's Day is a sham created by card companies to reinforce gender stereotypes. [..] I'll buy some cookies, but NOT for Valentine's Day. These cookies celebrate the February 14th birthday of Anna Howard Shaw, famed American suffragette. — Anna Howard Shaw
All my wife wanted for Valentine's Day was a little card - American Express. — Milton Berle
Today is February 14th - St. Valentine's day. Women call it Love day, while men name it as Extortion day. — Jay Leno
On Valentine's Day, millions of men give millions of women flowers, cards and candy as a heartfelt expression of the emotion that also motivates men to observe anniversaries and birthdays-fear. — Dave Barry
The bravest thing that men do is love women. — Mort Sahl
To know the pain of too much tenderness — Kahlil Gibran
A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world! — Charles Dickens
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year. — Walter Scott
One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books. — J. K. Rowling
Anyone who believes that men are the equal of women has never seen a man trying to wrap a Christmas present. — Publilius Syrus
She mailed me a Merry Christmas-I'm-Breaking-Up-with-You card. I'll read it to you," he said. He cleared his throat. "Dear Marcus. Merry Christmas. I'm breaking up with you. Mia. — Megan McCafferty
Hallmark Card Quotes
I'm not greedy. I have love, blue skies, rainbows and Hallmark cards and that has to be enough. It has to be enough, but it's everything in the world and everything in the world is plenty for me. It seems just rude to beg the invisible for more. — Penn Jillette
Watching 'The Sound of Music' is like being beaten to death by a Hallmark card. — Doug McClure
I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people. — Maya Angelou
I want to explore marriage without the usual Hallmark Card platitudes. Life is difficult, and I like movies that acknowledge that. — Harold Ramis
i found religion in the greeting card aisle now i know hallmark was right — Ani Difranco
It was moving, but so absurd that I nearly laughed out loud. I imagined a new line of Hallmark cards: "Thank you for not killing my boyfriend, even if it risks killing you. — Hilary Duff
It had been so good to see his enemy again. Positively heartwarming. Hallmark really needed to start up a line of revenge cards, the kind that let you reach out to those you were going to come after with a vengeance. - Lash — J.R. Ward
Birthday Card Quotes
Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. — Dorothy Parker
Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come. — Lucy Larcom
It’s the moment I’ve been waiting for, fighting on the big cards like UFC 200. — Amanda Nunes
Valentine cards and birthday wishes?
Please...be on another level of planning, of understanding
The bond between man and woman and child.
The highest elevation, cause we above
All that romance crap, just show your love. — Method Man
Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. — C. E. M. Joad
They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much. — Malcolm Cowley
I saw a birthday card the other day, and it said, "If you didn't know how old you were, how old would you think you were?" I started changing it in my mind right away to, "If you didn't know how sick you were, how sick would you think you were?" — Michael J. Fox
There's nothing funnier than getting a death threat via MySpace. Why don't you just write it in a children's birthday card. — Doug Stanhope
Thank you Dad...
for listening and caring,
for giving and sharing,
but, especially, for just being you!
Happy Birthday to you — John Walter Bratton
I occasionally get birthday cards from fans. But it's often the same message: They hope it's my last. — Al Forman
More Greeting Card Quotes
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. — Hamilton Wright Mabie
Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas. — Peg Bracken
Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind; Teach us to be patient and always to be kind. — Helen Steiner Rice
To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To you, respect. — Oren Arnold
Love is a word that has been hijacked by greeting card companies, cult leaders, sentimentalists, pop singers, false prophets, romcoms, McDonald’s, and a million other unsavory types, who transform the most incredible thing that humans can experience into an inflatable, gaudy imitation of itself that they use for their selfish desires and nefarious marketing campaigns. These b*stards have made the highest and most intense experience accessible to humans almost impossible to talk about without feeling embarrassed. — Duncan Trussell
Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time. — Laura Ingalls Wilder
I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards. — Berkeley Breathed
I squirrel away sealed greeting cards that people give me so I can open them later when I'm having a bad day. — Emily Procter
O Christmas Sun! What holy task is thine!
To fold a world in the embrace of God! — Guy Wetmore Carryl
The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other. — Johnny Carson
Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas. — Kin Hubbard
It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air. — William Thomas Ellis
the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you — John Greenleaf Whittier
If women were in charge of all the world's nations, there would be sincerely believe this - no military conflicts, and when there WAS a military conflict, everybody involved would feel just awful and there would soon be a high-level exchange of notes written on greeting cards with flowers on the front, followed by a Peace Luncheon — Dave Barry
Great little One! whose all-embracing birth
Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth. — Richard Crashaw
For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home. — William Jewett Tucker
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air. — William Thomas Ellis
Some days I do appreciate things more, eggs, flowers, but then I decide I'm only having an attack of sentimentality, my brain going pastel Technicolor, like a beautiful-sunset greeting cards they used to make so many of in California. High-gloss hearts. The danger is grayout. — Margaret Atwood
We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there might be something more worthy of love than us, more worthy of worship. Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time. — Zadie Smith
Roses are reddish
Violets are bluish
If it weren't for Christmas
We'd all be Jewish. — Benny Hill
Christmas is for children. But it is for grownups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide bound hearts. — Lenora Mattingly Weber
Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time. — Zadie Smith
That's the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me. — Jerry Seinfeld
Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Each time you toss out a 'singing' greeting card, you are disposing of more computing power than existed in the entire world before 1950. — Paul Saffo
I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year. — E. M. Forster
Don't poets know it
Better than others?
God can't be always everywhere: and, so,
Invented Mothers — Edwin Arnold
Valentine's Day was created by the greeting card industry to get pussy. — Anthony Jeselnik
And the more you spend in blessing
The poor and lonely and sad,
The more of your heart's possessing
Returns to you glad. — John Greenleaf Whittier
We can talk about courage and love and compassion until we sound like a greeting card store, but unless we're willing to have an honest conversation about what gets in the way of putting these into practice in our daily lives, we will never change. Never, ever. — Brené Brown
To say that George Lucas cannot write a love scene is an understatement; greeting cards have expressed more passion. — Roger Ebert
Oh! lovely voices of the sky
Which hymned the Saviour's birth,
Are ye not singing still on high,
Ye that sang, "Peace on earth"? — Felicia Hemans
Let me say something about that word: miracle. For too long it's been used to characterize things or events that, though pleasant, are entirely normal. Peeping chicks at Easter time, spring generally, a clear sunrise after an overcast week--a miracle, people say, as if they've been educated from greeting cards. — Leif Enger
Romance isn't about proving to someone you love them with flowers and greeting cards and chocolate. Or even a lock on a fence. It's a daily reminder. It's saying, I choose you. Today and every day. — Kristen Proby
I'm not sure I knew what an entrepreneur was when I was ten, but I knew that starting little businesses and trying to sell greeting cards or newspapers door-to-door or just vending machine kind of thing is.. there's just something very intriguing to me about that. — Steve Case
I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress. — May Sarton
Whether it's watching a $4,000 laptop fall off the conveyor belt at airport security, contending with a software conflict that corrupted your file management system, or begging your family to stop opening those virus-carrying 'greeting cards' attached to emails, all computer owners are highly leveraged and highly vulnerable technology investors. — Douglas Rushkoff
I'm interested in humor, and greeting cards just happen to be a perfect medium for my message. They're accessible to everyone, and thanks to all the advances that have been made by environmentally conscientious printers, I can get my message across while keeping my carbon footprint relatively small. — Anne Taintor
Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed. — P. J. O'Rourke
The love of Christ is not a pretend love. It is not a greeting-card love. It is not the kind of love that is praised in popular music and movies. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
For Dad, the perfect Father's Day would be one in which he didn't even realize that it was Father's Day, because nobody was making him appreciate gifts he didn't want, or read greeting cards filled with lame Father's Day poetry. — Dave Barry
i found religion in the greeting card aisle now i know hallmark was right — Ani Difranco
I wrote home to say how lovely everything was, and I used flourishing words and phrases, as if I were living life in a greeting card - the kind that has a satin ribbon on it, and quilted hearts and roses, and is expected to be so precious to the person receiving it that the manufacturer has placed a leaf of plastic on the front to protect it. — Jamaica Kincaid
My skin may have wrinkles but it's because I'm smiling so much. That might sound like some terrible American greetings card, but I feel it's immoral for me to castigate my body for getting older, when it does everything I ask of it. — Olivia Williams
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