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:
Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.
Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.
Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.
The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.
Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
And often, glad no more,
We wear a face of joy because
We have been glad of yore.