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:
I should say that happiness is being where one is and not wanting to be anywhere else.
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.
Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another?
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child!
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.