100 Short Merry Christmas Quotes for Cards

The festive season is approaching and if you’re looking for the perfect quotes to include in your Christmas cards, we have you covered. We have put together a list of all the best short Merry Christmas quotes for cards for you to choose from. And if you’re looking for short Christmas messages, we also have you covered.

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Short Merry Christmas Quotes for Cards

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“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. ” -John Steinbeck

“White lips, pale face, breathing in snowflakes.” – Ed Sheeran

“The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can’t charge it.” — Bill Vaughan

“Nothing says holidays like a cheese log.” — Ellen Degeneres

“Christmas day is a day of joy and charity.” — Phillips Brooks

“There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves.” — Eric Sevareid

“Your children need your presence more than your presents.” — Jesse Jackson

“Kindness is like snow. It beautifies everything it covers.” —Kahlil Gibran

“Even as an adult, I still find it hard to sleep on Christmas Eve.” – Carrie Latet

“As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is.” – Eric Sevareid

“Christmas Eve will find me, where the lovelight gleams. I’ll be home for Christmas, if only in my dreams.” – “I’ll be Home for Christmas”

“Walking in a winter wonderland.” – “Winter Wonderland”

“Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.” — Peg Bracken

“I don’t want Christmas season to end, because it’s the only time I can legitimately indulge in on particular addiction: glitter.” — Eloisa James

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

“Christmas sweaters are only acceptable as a cry for help.” — Andy Borowitz

“It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.” — W.T. Ellis

“Christmas magic is silent. You don’t hear it—you feel it. You know it. You believe it.” — Kevin Alan Milne

“And so this is Christmas… what have you done?” — John Lennon

“Winter forms our character and brings out our best.” -Tom Allen

“We elves try to stick to the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corns and syrup.” — Elf

“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.” — Benjamin Franklin

”Let’s be naughty and save Santa the trip.” — Gary Allan

“Christmas can’t be bought from a store. Maybe Christmas means a little bit more.” — Dr.Seuss

“The first snow is like the first love.” — Lara Biyuts

“The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.” — Elf

“I never thought it was such a bad little tree. It’s not bad at all, really. Maybe it just needs a little love.”

“A joy that is shared is a joy made double.” — John Roy

“You can’t fool me—there ain’t no Sanity Clause!” — Chico Marx

“I’m dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know.”  — Irving Berlin

“Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can’t see.” — The Polar Express

“Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.” — Sara Raasch

“Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive.” –Robert Lynd

“At Christmas, play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.” — Thomas Tusser

“I love Christmas. I receive a lot of wonderful presents I can’t wait to exchange.” — Henny Youngman

“‘White Christmas’ is the ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ of Christmas songs.” ― Stewart Stafford

“You know you’re getting old when Santa starts looking younger.” — Robert Paul

“Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year.” — Victor Borge

“Next to a circus there ain’t nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.” — Frank McKinney Hubbard

“Have yourself a merry little Christmas. Let your heart be light.” – “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”

“To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.” – Aristotle

“Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling.” — Edna Ferber

“Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing, but of reflection.”  — Winston Churchill

“Nothing’s as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.” — Kin Hubbard

“Christmas is a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart.” — Freya Stark

“It’s not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving.” — Mother Theresa

“Love the giver more than the gift.” — Brigham Young

“May your days be merry and bright.” — White Christmas

“Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime.” — Charles Dickens

“I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story.” – Fred Rogers

“If winter helps you curl up and more that makes it one of the best of the seasons.” -Murray Pura

“Do you want to build a snowman?” — Anna, Frozen

“That’s the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.” — Jerry Seinfeld

“Christmas is a box of tree ornaments that have become part of the family.”— Charles M. Schulz

”Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.” — Stephen Fry

”Even before Christmas has said Hello, it’s saying ‘Buy Buy.’” — Robert Paul

“’Tis the season to be jolly!” — “Deck the Halls”

”One good thing about Christmas shopping is it toughens you for the January sales.” — Grace Kriley

“I don’t know what to say, but it’s Christmas, and we’re all in misery.” — National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

“Christmas is forever, not for just one day. For loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away.” — Norman Wesley Brooks

“Christmas is a baby shower that went totally overboard.” — Andy Borowitz

“Christmas day is the children’s, but the holidays are youth’s dancing-time.” — Booth Tarkington

“Christmas isn’t just a day—it’s a frame of mind.” — Miracle on 34th Street

“Winter is not a season, it’s a celebration.” -Anamika Mishra

“Today I’m icy, but I’m prayin’ for some more snow.” — Nicki Minaj, “Feeling Myself”

“Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.” — Pindar

“Christmas was definitely the best thing ever, even better than pizza. But instead of all her favorite toppings, Amitola was surrounded by all her favorite people.” ― Aishabella Sheikh

“Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.” — Margaret Thatcher

“I’m dreaming of a white Christmas.” – White Christmas

“Christmas is a together-y sort of holiday.” Winnie the Pooh

“The Christmas spirit is a spirit of giving and forgiving.” — J. C. Penney

“Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.” — Ruth Carter Stapleton

“Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.” — Johnny Carson

“He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.” — Roy L. Smith

“The winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting.” –Louisa May Alcott

“Christmas to me is as many people as possible happy.” — Tupac Shakur

“Let us keep Christmas beautiful without a thought of greed.” — Ann Garnett Schultz

”Christmas and the holidays is the season of giving. It’s a time when people are more kind and open-hearted.” — Gisele Bundchen

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

“One kind word can warm three winter months. ” -Japanese Proverb

“Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.” — Stephen Jones

“He sees you when you’re sleeping, he knows when you’re awake. He knows when you’ve been bad or good, so be good, for goodness sake!” — “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”

“I smell snow.” — Gilmore Girls

“Baby it’s cold outside.” — Dean Martin

“I heard the bells on Christmas Day.” ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“I believe… I believe… It’s silly, but I believe.” — Miracle on 34th Street

“T’was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.” — Clement Clarke Moore

“If you want to experience the true meaning of Christmas, give something to someone who can offer nothing in return.” ― Toni Sorenson

“All Christmas trees are perfect.” – Charles N. Barnard

“Christmas works like glue. It keeps us all sticking together.” — Rosie Thomas

“Thank you, Stockings, for being a long flammable piece of fabric people like to hang over a roaring fireplace.” — Jimmy Fallon

“Christmas is a time when you get homesick, even if you’re home.” — Carol Nelson

“Nothing ever seems too bad, too hard, or too sad when you’ve got a Christmas tree in the living room.” —Nora Roberts

“I haven’t taken my Christmas lights down. They look so nice on the pumpkin. — Winston Spear

“Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind.” — Helen Steiner Rice

“T’was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.” – Clement Clarke Moore

“Aren’t we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa.” — Bart Simpson

“One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas Day.” — Andy Rooney

“There’s something about a Christmas sweater that will always make me laugh.” — Kristen Wiig

“What I like about Christmas is that you can make people forget the past with the present.” — Don Marquis

“Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.” -Pietro Aretino

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

“For when the first snow is also a Christmas snow, well, something wonderful is bound to happen.” — Frosty the Snowman

“A Christmas miracle is when your family doesn’t get into a single argument all day.” — Melanie White

“Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.” — It’s a Wonderful Life

“Rockin’ around the Christmas tree.” — Brenda Lee

“My husband’s idea of getting the Christmas spirit is to become Scrooge.” — Melanie White

“Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your mouth sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever.” — Richelle E. Goodrich

“At Christmas, all roads lead home.” — Marjorie Holmes

“Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality.” – Washington Irving

-Charlie Brown

“My brother, little sister and I decorate the tree together, and every year we fight over who gets to hang our handmade childhood decorations.” — Carly Rae Jepsen

“Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves.” – B. C. Forbes

”The main reason Santa is so jolly because he knows where all the bad girls live.” — George Carlin

“Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.” —“’Let it Snow”

“There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus.” — Bob Phillips

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller

“O Christmas tree.” — Aretha Franklin, “O Christmas Tree”

“We are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder

“What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.” – Agnes M. Pahro

“It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life.” — Nick Hornby

“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.” — Hamilton Wright Mabie

“To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring. ” -W.J. Vogel

“The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much.” — Henry David Thoreau

“It’s the most wonderful time of the year!”  — Edward Pola & George Wyle

“The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood.” ― Richard Paul Evans

“Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.” — Dale Evans Rogers

“I grew up with a Christmas tree, I’m going to stay with a Christmas tree.” – Thomas Menino

“Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day.” — Helen Steiner Rice

“When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things – not the great occasions – give off the greatest glow of happiness.” – Bob Hope

“With candy canes and silver lanes aglow.” — Johnny Mathis

“The joy of brightening other lives becomes for us the magic of the holidays.” — W.C. Jones

“The world has grown weary through the years, but at Christmas, it is young.” — Phillips Brooks

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

If you like these, you might also want to check out our other lists of Short Christmas Letter Board Quotes, Christmas Wishes for Friends, Funny Christmas Letter Board Quotes and Short Christmas Sayings.

Short Christmas Messages for Cards

Every Christmas is merrier because you’re a part of it.

Winter landscape

I’m dreaming of a white Christmas. But if the white runs out, I’ll drink the red.

My favorite smell is Christmas tree

Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles.

Ho-ho-home for Christmas!

May all your long-cherished dreams come true this Christmas. With love and warmth of heart, wishing you a Merry Christmas!

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow… somewhere else

Merry Christmas! May you be showered with unlimited blessings on this day.

Merry Christmas! I hope you receive one blessing after another this coming year.

Home is where the Christmas cookies and presents are!

I’m up to snow good

Wishing you a fun filled and merry Christmas

Christmas is in the air, and I’m living for it!

Merry Christmas, and may your Christmas be white!

The snuggle is real

May you never be too grown up to search the skies on Christmas Eve.

Adorable snowmen make me melt

Good tidings of cheer and glee

Wishing you a season that’s merry and bright!

Sugar and spice make the holidays nice

It’s snow joke – it’s freezing out there

Thinking of you this season and wishing you a joyful holiday.

Another Christmas already? Seriously, what the Elf?

Christmas break to-do list: Eat, drink, nap

Relaxing by the tree on Christmas Eve

I can’t feel my toes!

Have your selfie a merry little Christmas

Christmas is coming

Holding hands in the snow underneath the stars

For you at Christmas time: A wish for happiness, warmth, and love.

Winter is warmer when we are laughing

Snowflakes are winter roses

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place

Our merry little Christmas tree

May every little thing from your wish list come true this season. Merry Christmas!

You can’t get too much winter in the winter

Here’s to a season of blessings and beyond this Christmas!

I’m the ultimate snow angel

I hope Santa is good to you this year!

May this Christmas be the brightest, most beautiful Christmas of your life.

Dashing through the snow

May the true spirit of Christmas shine in your heart and light your path.

Cue the snowflakes, please

May your hearth be warm and your holidays grand.

I wish we could put some of our Christmas spirit in jars and open one up every month.

The tree isn’t the only thing to get lit

Forget the mistletoe—you can kiss me any time you like!

Have a magical holiday season!

Turning snowflakes into snow cones

What happens under the mistletoe stays under the mistletoe

Wishing you a Merry Christmas with all my heart!

All about that winter white

Today, I will sleigh Christmas!

Baby it’s cold outside, but you fill my heart with warmth.

‘Tis the season to be freezin’

Catching snowflakes

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that make snow angels

Winter nights silver sledges

Cheers to eggnog by the fire, warm holiday memories, and you.

Like hiking in a snow globe

We wish you a merry Christmas, we wish you a merry Christmas, we wish you a merry Christmas and you’re welcome – that song’s now stuck in your head all day.

‘Tis the season to be jolly, and I hope you have the opportunity every day!

The reason for the season: Cookies.

Wishing you a relaxing and stress-free holiday.

Don’t get your tinsel in a tangle.

You are the greatest gift I could wish for this Christmas.

Here’s my resting Grinch face

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect way to start winter

A mistle-toast to the holiday season

Christmas is the season when you buy this year’s gifts with next year’s money.

Like a scene from a snow globe

You’re my favorite Christmas present this year.

Going where snowman has gone before

I hope you have a cozy Christmas that chases the chill of winter away.

I’m only a morning person on December 25th.

Santa, stop here. We have cookies.

Dear Santa, before I explain, how much do you know already?

May the holiday season fill your home with joy, your heart with love, and your life with laughter.

My favorite color is Christmas lights

You know what I got for Christmas? Fat.

Cold hands, warm heart

Setting out the milk and cookies

May this season be full of light and laughter for you and your family.

Hiking in a winter wonderland

All I want for Christmas is…food!

Fairy lights on Christmas night

I’ve never met a snow flake I didn’t like!

May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through!

Winter hibernation mode on

Keep calm and wait for snow

It’s your Christmas! March to the beat of your own little drummer boy.

Once you stop believing in Santa, you get underwear for Christmas.

Wishing you peace, joy, and unconditional love at Christmas and always.

Keep Calm and jingle all the way.

A winter night to remember

I might not believe in Santa, but I still believe in a good Christmas card!

Christmas is a race to see which gives out first—your money or your feet.

Making spirits bright

Brrrrring on the snow

Ice to see you!

So that is it for our list of Short Christmas Quotes and Captions. We hope you found the perfect one for you!