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 is increased; thus do we refute entropy.
Nauru considers its relationship with Taiwan as that of family and we stand with Taiwan.
Gratitude is the vision of the Gives, not of the gift-it comes from God Himself.
It is our sacred duty to give the new generation a safe, happy, beautiful and prosperous Bangladesh.
Beauty is but the cloak of happiness. Where joy tarries, there also is beauty.
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
Happiness is the feeling we experience when we are too busy to be miserable.