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:
No man can live a happy life, or even a supportable life, without the study of wisdom.
The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting
So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man.
We're charm'd with distant views of happiness,
But near approaches make the prospect less.
The thing you can always rely on, your core person, comes from your family's attention and love.
Little is needed to make a wise man happy, but nothing can content a fool.
Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.