There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.
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:
Your bounty is beyond my speaking;
But though my mouth be dumb, my heart shall thank you.
L'ingratitude attire les reproches comme la reconnaissance attire de nouveaux bienfaits.
When harmony, mutual consideration and trust pass out of the home, hell enters in.
Whoever does not express his gratitude to people will never be grateful to God.
Would I were with him, wheresome'er he is, either in heaven or in hell.
Happiness is neither within us nor without us, it is the union of ourselves with God.
Beware what earth calls happiness; beware
All joys, but joys that never can expire.