Christmas Quotes 2016: 22 Festive, Funny Sayings To Share For The Holidays

Christmas tree? Check. Wrapping paper? Check. Fun quotes to share around the fire? Read on.

Christmas is a popular holiday in literature and public discourse, which means it has generated thousands of plot lines and passages over the past few decades. If you're finding it hard to come up with the words to tell your loved ones how much you appreciate them, borrow someone else's — with credit, of course.

Here are 22 inspirational and humorous quotes for you to share this holiday season, collected from Goodreads, BrainyQuote, BuzzFeed and Quote Garden:

"One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly." — Andy Rooney

“My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?” — Bob Hope

"Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection." — Winston Churchill

“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” — Charles Dickens

“Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart ... filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.” — Bess Streeter Aldrich

"I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included." — Bernard Manning

“Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.” — Dr. Seuss

“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 Christmastime.” — Laura Ingalls Wilder

"Once again, we come to the holiday season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice." — Dave Barry

"Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone." — Charles M. Schulz

"Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful." — Norman Vincent Peale

“I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.” — Harlan Miller

"Christmas is the day that holds all time together." — Alexander Smith

“Christmas, my child, is love in action.” — Dale Evans Rogers

“Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today’s Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.” — Gladys Taber

"Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness." — Mo Rocca

"Mankind is a great, an immense family. This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas." — Pope John XXIII

"What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day." — Phyllis Diller

“It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.” ― Dylan Thomas

"Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart." — Washington Irving

“Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive.” — Robert Lynd

"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