It's the season of lights and love, for calling family and oldfriends, for reconnecting with business contacts.

If you're one of those people who loves to buy blank holidaycards to write your own messages, or if you're looking to send outsome magical holiday quotes or funny jokes on your emailmarketing or social media, we hope that you can pick fromthese that we rounded up from the Internet, or use them as aninspiration to come up with new quotable quotes of your own.

Some of the quotes are humorous, some meaningful. First, let'sstart with...

The magical…

"As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compoundedby December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there arepeople in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people towhom we are worth the same." — Donald E.Westlake, American writer of crime fiction and comiccapers

“To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatlyin the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart thatyour love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness –these are the gifts which money cannotbuy." — Robert Louis Stevenson,Scottish novelist, poet, author of Treasure Island and the StrangeCase of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“Three phrases that sum up Christmas are: Peace on Earth,goodwill toward men, and batteries notincluded.” – English Proverb

“Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is inreality great, if it is given withaffection.” — Pindar, Ancient Greeklyric poet from Thebes

“One of the most glorious messes in the world is the messcreated in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up tooquickly.” - Andy Rooney, American radio andtelevision writer

“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in aconspiracy of love.” - Hamilton Wright Mabie,American essayist, critic

“Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if youstop opening presents and listen.” – Authorunknown, attributed to a 7-year-old boy answering the question“What is love?”

“Every gift from a friend is a wish foryour happiness.” — RichardBach, American writer and author of Jonathan LivingstonSeagull

"What you keep for yourself, you lose. What you give away, youkeep forever." — Axel Munthe,Swedish physician and psychiatrist

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what wegive." — Winston Churchill, former BritishPrime Minister

"For it is in giving that wereceive…" — Saint Francis of Assisi, ItalianCatholic friar and preacher

“One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with whatgrace to share it.” — Maya Angelou,American author and actress

"A gift opens the way for the giver and ushers him into thepresence of the great" — Proverbs18:16

"Christmas gift suggestions:

To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To afriend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. Toevery child, a good example. To yourself, respect."

— Oren Arnold, Americannovelist

The funny…

“Remember that the important thing is not what you give, or howyou wrap it. The important thing, during this very special time ofyear, is that you save the receipt.” — DaveBarry, Pulitzer Prize winner American author andhumorist

"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother tookme to see him in a department store and he asked for myautograph." — Shirley Temple,American actress and singer

"Christmas is the season when you buy this year's gifts withnext year's money." — Authorunknown

"Let me see if I’ve got this Santa business straight. You say hewears a beard, has no discernible source of income and flies tocities all over the world under cover of darkness? You sure thisguy isn’t laundering illegal drugmoney?" — Tom Armstrong, Americancartoonist

“Christmas begins about the first of December with an officeparty and ends when you finally realize what you spent, aroundApril fifteenth of the next year.” – P.J.O’Rourke, American writer and humorist

“Scientists have now discovered the reason for post-holidaydepression: No more presents until yourbirthday.” — Melanie White

From literature and the movies…

“And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow,stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came withoutribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes orbags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Thenthe Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What ifChristmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store? What ifChristmas, perhaps, means a little bit more?”

- Dr. Seuss, American writer andcartoonist

(Photo: This Nov. 2012 photo provided by Universal OrlandoResort shows actors from the theme park’s live holiday show,“Grinchmas Wholiday Spectacular,” inspired by the classic story,“How the Grinch Stole Christmas.” AP Photo/Universal)

"There are many things from which I might have derived good, bywhich I have not profited, I dare say, Christmas among the rest." …"And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold orsilver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and willdo me good; and I say, God bless it!"

— Ebenezer Scrooge’s nephew Fred in "A ChristmasCarol" by Charles Dickens, Englishwriter

(Photo: Barry Howard as Jacob Marley, leans over TommySteele as Ebenezer Scrooge, below, as they perform a scene on stageas he joins the cast of Scrooge at the London Palladium. Photo byJoel Ryan/Invision/AP)

"All right, you go back and tell them that the New York StateSupreme Court rules there’s no Santa Claus. It’s all over thepapers. The kids read it and they don’t hang up their stockings.Now what happens to all the toys that are supposed to be in thosestockings? Nobody buys them. The toy manufacturers are going tolike that; so they have to lay off a lot of their employees, unionemployees. Now you got the CIO and the AF of L against you andthey’re going to adore you for it and they’re going to say it withvotes. Oh, and the department stores are going to love you too andthe Christmas card makers and the candy companies. Ho ho. Henry,you’re going to be an awful popularfella.” — Campaign Manager CharlesHalloran to Judge Harper in ‘Miracle on 34th Street’ courtroomscene (1947)

Santa Claus: [ToRalphie] How about a nice er...football?

Ralphie: [Asnarrator] Football? What is a football? Without a will myvoice squeaked out "Football"

Santa Claus: ...okay, get him out of here.

Ralphie: [As narrator] AFootball!? Oh no! What was I doing!!? Wake up stupid! Wake up!

Ralphie: [Aschild] NO! [climbs back up exitslide] No. No. I want an official Red Ryder carbineaction 200-range-shot model air rifle! [smiles hopefullyat Santa]

Santa Claus: [toRalphie] You'll shoot your eye out kid. Merry Christmas!HO! HO! HO!

Ralphie: [smile fades to shockness bywhat Santa said. Santa pushes Ralphie down the exitslide] NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!*****

- From 'A Christmas Story' (1983)