Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
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:
Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and of grief!
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
There 's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.
Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
Happiness is not an end — it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence.
The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.
Happiness lies only in a divine unrest; and if you are lapped in comfort you stagnate and miss it.