Thanksgiving Quotes
This page is not a collection of Thanksgiving writing. It is made from three others, gratitude, family and happiness, and sorted by quality. A handful of entries mention the holiday itself, from writers as different as Harriet Beecher Stowe, the poet John Keble, Will Carleton, Patton Oswalt and Ted Nugent.
Most of what you will see is general, and it makes good table talk, with more sentiment than usual and less irony. Glance at the flag and the source before you print one on a place card.
Most quoted on thanksgiving:
Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased — thus do we refute entropy.
Tolerant people are the happiest, so why not get rid of prejudices that hold you back?
Doubtless the pleasure is as great
Of being cheated as to cheat.
The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure and pleasure my business.
Every joy that some experience is paid for by the sorrow of others.