Tight Christmas

What is bought is cheaper than a gift. - Portuguese Proverb

Conceit is God's gift to little men. - Bruce Barton

Gladly accept the gifts of the present hour. - Horace

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. - Richard Bach

A book is a gift you can open again and again. - Garrison Keillor

I get really grinchy right up until Christmas morning. - Dan Aykroyd

The gods bestowed on him the gift of perpetual old age. - Oscar Wilde

Mankind's greatest gift is that we have free choice. - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Halloween starts earlier and earlier, just like Christmas. - Robert Englund

Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing. - Betty Smith

To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. - Steve Prefontaine

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. - Virginia Woolf

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. - Bruce Barton

For business, our Internet love affair was a gift from the gods. - Gary Vaynerchuk

I'm tired of people not treating me like the gift that I am. - Paula Abdul

A gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself. - Mae West

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola

Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas. - Kin Hubbard

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value. - Charles Dudley Warner

If my Valentine you won't be,
I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree. - Ernest Hemingway

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. - Desmond Tutu

I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale. - Robert H. Schuller

True and solemn meaning of Christmas, which is a time for peace and quiet contemptation. - Archie Bunker

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. - Albert Einstein

If 'ifs and buts' were 'candy and nuts', we'd have Christmas every day. - Unknown

I still have my Christmas Tree. I looked at it today. Sure enough, I couldn't see any forests. - Steven Wright

When asked what gift he wanted for his birthday, the yogi replied: I wish no gifts, only presence. - Unknown

No matter how carefully you stored the lights last year, they will be snarled again this Christmas. - Robert Kirby

The Christmas season has come to mean the period when the public plays Santa Claus to the merchants. - John Andrew Holmes

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a family all wrapped up in each other. - Bill Vaughan

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present. - Bil Keane

Might make a real good Christmas present for the uninformed. The book is called 'Taking America Back.' - Paul Harvey

We are each given a limitless capacity to love and attain wisdom. The extent we use these gifts is our choice. - Anthony Douglas

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is God's Gift. That's why we call it the 'Present.' - Bill Keane

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

We are all born with a grab bag on gifts and gaps. Identify your true talents, then find out how to use them to make money. - Bill O'Reilly

Did you read about Starbucks? No more "Merry Christmas" at Starbucks. No more. Maybe we should boycott Starbucks. - Donald Trump

The older one gets, the more one feels that the present must be enjoyed; it is a precious gift, comparable to a state of grace. - Marie Curie

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer. - Barbara de Angelis