Quotes and Sayings

We give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
- Ritual Chant

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
- Irv Kupcinet

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
- William Faulkner

Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude.
- E.P. Powell

Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
- P. J. O’Rourke

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
- Erma Bombeck

Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.
- W.J. Cameron

Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day.
- Robert Caspar Lintner

If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.
- George Bernard Shaw

The pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.
- H.W. Westermayer

Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.
- Konrad von Gesner

God gave us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends.
- Ethel Watts Mumford

On Thanksgiving Day, all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - halftime.
- Anonymous

On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
- William Jennings Bryan

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
- Aesop

Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
- William Shakespeare

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say “thank you?
- William A. Ward

We give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
- Ritual Chant

Thank God every day when you get up that you have something to do that day which must be done whether you like it or not. Being forced to work and forced to do your best will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues, which the idle will never know.
- Basil Carpenter

Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor and praise for His goodness.
- Robert Casper Lintner

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