Don't you dare treat me the way I treat you. You silly bitch. Don't you know who I think I am? Steve Davis

"Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the in Alaska won't make it 'white'." -- Bing Crosby

"Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone." -- Charles Schulz

"Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love." -- Hamilton Wright Mabi

"They err who thinks Santa Claus comes down through the chimney; he really enters through the heart." -- Mrs. Paul M. Ell

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
Washington Irving

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
James Madison

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.  ~Raymond Hull


God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.  ~William Shakespeare


The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.  ~James Matthew Barrie


Most people are other people.  Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.  ~Oscar Wilde, De Profundis, 1905


Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.  ~Judy Garland


We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.  ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld


A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.  ~Paul Valéry, Mauvaises pensées et autres, 1942


I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity.  Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune.  ~Boris Pasternak


It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.  ~e.e. cummings


Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.  ~Homer


How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.  ~Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel


"Be yourself" is about the worst advice you can give some people.  ~Tom Masson