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You can tell you ate too much for Thanksgiving when you have to let your bathrobe out.
Sep 17, 2025
So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart, to praise the Lord with feast and song in thankfulness of heart.
God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
May your stuffing be tasty May your turkey plump, May your potatoes and gravy Have nary a lump. May your yams be delicious And your pies take the prize, And may your Thanksgiving dinner Stay off your thighs!
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
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?
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.
It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.
I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.
There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place. There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in.
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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!
For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!
O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving," and the words of John Fitzgerald Kennedy tell us that, "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
He who thanks but with the lips. Thanks but in part; the full, the true Thanksgiving. Comes from the heart.
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.
Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.
We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
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