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Famous Quotes Related To Thanksgiving
We have presented a collection of some of the
quotations of famous literary men around the world related to
thanksgiving. This collection also includes witty comments, sayings,
quotes and proverbs that are worth reading on this Thanksgiving Day and
putting them on your desk and walls would certainly attract the
attention of the intellectuals and add to the overall mood of the
holiday feast.
- Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
- William Shakespeare
- Heap high the board with plenteous cheer and gather to the feast,
And toast the sturdy Pilgrim band whose courage never ceased.
- Alice W. Brotherton
- We give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
- Ritual Chant
- What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on
the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else
would they call it Thanksgiving?
- Erma Bombeck
- Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.
- Estonian proverb
- Got no checkbooks, got no banks.
Still I'd like to express my thanks -
I got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night.
- Irving Berlin
- The unthankful heart. discovers no mercies;
But let the thankful heart sweep through the day
And as the magnet finds the iron,
So it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
- Henry Ward Beecher
- Do not get tired of doing what is good.
Don't get discouraged and give up,
For we will reap a harvest of blessing at the appropriate time.
- Galatians 6:9
- 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
- An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving
Day.
- Irv Kupcinet
- Once, when my feet were bare,
And I had not the means of obtaining shoes
I came to the chief of Kufah
In a state of much dejection,
And saw there a man who had no feet.
I returned thanks to God
And acknowledged his mercies,
And endured my want of shoes with patience.
- Sadi, The Gulistan
- The pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts
nevertheless,
set aside a day of thanksgiving.
- H.W. Westermayer
- On Thanksgiving Day, we acknowledge our dependence.
- William Jennings Bryan
- Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the
true measure of our thanksgiving.
- W T Purkiser
- 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
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