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:
Joys too exquisite to last,
And yet more exquisite when past.
For happiness, she also required work to do in this world and bread on the table.
When I'm not thank'd at all, I'm thank'd enough,
I've done my duty, and I've done no more.
Boys who, being mature in knowledge,
Pawn their experience to their present pleasure.
A grateful mind
By owing owes not, but still pays, at once
Indebted and discharg'd.
Let never day nor night unhallow'd pass,
But still remember what the Lord hath done.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Still to ourselves in every place consign'd,
Our own felicity to make or find.
True happiness ne'er entered at an eye;
True happiness resides in things unseen.
And, e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy,
The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy.
Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true.
What is lawful is undesirable; what is unlawful is very attractive.