The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time! Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>