"Merry Christmas!" said Scrooge. "What right have you to be merry? What reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough."
Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it.
For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.
Isn't it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for - I don't know what exactly, but it's something that you don't mind so much not having at other times.
Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.