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:
Let us enjoy pleasure while we can; pleasure is never long enough.
We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.
Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it;
We are happy now because God wills it.
Joy to the world
All the boys and girls, now,
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me
Gratitude is more of a compliment to yourself than someone else.
Men may scoff, and men may pray,
But they pay
Every pleasure with a pain.
Those who do not observe the movements of their own minds must of necessity be unhappy.
* * * all who joy would win
Must share it,—Happiness was born a twin.