Famous Quotes & Sayings

Milton Berle

My wife can't figure out what to buy me. What do you give a man who's had everything up to here?

Milton Berle

My wife and I were shopping for the whole family. In the music department my wife said, "Let's get your nephew a set of drums. That's what your brother did to us last year."

Milton Berle

At Christmas you can get real bargains. I saw one item marked down ten dollars. It was a yacht.

Milton Berle

The Post Office is very careful nowadays. When they get a package marked "Fragile," they throw it underhand.

Milton Berle

Do you want to feel insecure? Count the number of Christmas cards you sent out, and then count those you received.

Milton Berle

Talk about cheap - on Christmas Eve, my neighbour shoots off three blanks and tells his kids Santa Claus just committed suicide.

Milton Berle

I gave my wife a twenty-five-dollar gift certificate. She used it as a down payment on a mink coat.

Milton Berle

They've got plastic Christmas trees now. They're hard to tell from the real aluminum ones.

Milton Berle

This man's wife told him, "For Christmas, surprise me." On Christmas Eve he leaned over where she was sleeping and said, "Boo!"

Milton Berle

It's always consoling to know that today's Christmas gifts are tomorrow's garage sales.

Milton Berle

I bought a Christmas tree for twenty dollars. When I came home the next day, my wife was wearing it in her hair.

Milton Berle

Santa is having a tough time this year. Last year he deducted eight billion for gifts, and the IRS wants an itemized list

Mike Shinoda

My parents still treat Christmas like I'm thirteen years old.

Ivan Lendl

I just travel all the time. And I was just looking at the schedules now and starting the first week of October I will be every weekend with somebody at tournaments through Christmas. So it gets very difficult to just go away and not do that.

Gloria Gaither

God must have said, "I know what I'll do, I'll send my Love right down there where they are. And I'll send it as a tiny baby, so they'll have to touch it, and they'll have to hold it close."

Koren Robinson

I can't describe how it feels. There was a minute there when I wasn't sure I was going to get to play in the NFL again. I feel like a kid on Christmas Day now.

Felix Silla

I do Christmas parties, and I've been a leprechaun.

Howard Thurman

Christmas is a mood, a quality, a symbol. It is never merely a fact.

Howard Thurman

When the song of the angels is stilled, When the star in the sky is gone, When the kings and princes are home, When the shepherds are back with their flock, The work of Christmas begins: ...To find the lost, To heal the broken, To feed the hungry, To release the prisoner, To rebuild the nations, To bring peace among brothers, To make music in the heart.

Ice Cube

I remember wishing there was snow in L.A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow.

Ice Cube

There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.

Heap on more wood! the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.

If he could have any wish, it would be to have Christmas everyday. It fits his personality.

John Collins

If he is, it's not to meet us. Maybe he's doing some Christmas shopping.

I can't think of a better Christmas present than this. To win this in my senior season is just fantastic.

I don't think the day is the kind of day that retailers thought it would be. Christmas Eve is seldom the big day because of the fact that so many consumers ... want to be home.

I don't think these companies results have merited getting hit this hard, but investors are getting concerned with consumer spending as we move into the all-important Christmas season.

He's miserable. He wants to come back. Christmas was the hardest.

Hillary Scott

I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.

Herbert Hoover

A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.

Evelyn Underhill

I do hope your Christmas has had a little touch of Eternity in among the rush and pitter patter and all. It always seems such a mixing of this world and the next - but that after all is the idea!

Evan Davis

Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday, seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season.

Eugene Field

I'd like a stocking made for a giant, And a meeting house full of toys, Then I'd go out in a happy hunt For the poor little girls and boys; Up the street and down the street, And across and over the town, I'd search and find them everyone, Before the sun went down.