“Thanksgiving Day originated in New England when the Puritans realized they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, instead of getting exterminated by their neighbors, the Indians.” Mark Twain
“Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.” Samuel Johnson
“Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks.” Shakespeare, Hamlet
“Gratitude is characteristic only of the humble. The egotistic are so impressed by their own importance that they take everything given them as if it were their due. They have no room in their hearts for recollection of the undeserved favors they received.” Fulton Sheen
“Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” G.K. Chesterton
“Giving thank is not weakness but strength, for it involves self-repression.” Fulton Sheen
“How wonderful it would be if we could help our children and grandchildren to learn thanksgiving at an early age. Thanksgiving opens the doors. It changes a child's personality. A child is resentful, negative–or thankful. Thankful children want to give, they radiate happiness, they draw people.” Sir John Templeton
“Gratitude is a species of justice.” Samuel Johnson
“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice.” Meister Eckhart
“When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.” St. Jerome
