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:
Hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune.
It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.
True art is to create a magnificent city and fill the hearts of its people with happiness.
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
To live among friends is the primary essential of happiness.
The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
Technology has deprived the family of almost all its functions.