FAMILY

Mother's out of jail, Dad!
Let us ask her in!
Make her Christmas merry
With food and fire and gin!
Mother's out of jail, Dad,
Let us ask her in!

Mother's Home Again!
Don Marquis


"It was late November, I think. And I was thinking about the whole
Christmas thing: The birth of Christ, The Wizard of Oz, family
murders. And quite frankly, I was depressed."

Joe
A MidWinter's Tale


"Christmas means many things to many people. Love. Togetherness.
Redemption. Psychosis."

Bob Bankard
You Need Many Years of Therapy
PhillyBurbs


"One Christmas my grandfather gave me a box of broken glass. He
gave my brother a box of bandaids. Then he said to us, "Now, you two
share." "

Stephen Wright


"The one thing women don't want to find in their stockings on Christmas morning is their husband."

Joan Rivers


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

Bernard Manning


"There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas."

Robert Lynd


"A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together."

Garrison Keillor