Thankful Thursday

 I decided to give some thanksgiving quotes for today. Some are funny and some are serious, I hope you enjoy.

 

The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of Thanksgiving. ~H.U. Westermayer

 

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 was never ment to be shut up in one single day. ~Robert Caspar Lintner

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

 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

Let us remember that, as much as has been given to us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds. ~Theodore Roosevelt

Thanksgiving is America’s national chow-down feast, the one occation each year when gluttony becomes a patriotic duty. ~Michael Dresser

Coexistence: What the farmer does with the turkey… until Thanksgiving. ~Mike Connoly

 God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. ~Izaac Walton

Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now. ~A.W. Tozer

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. ~Aesop

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

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ~Mark Twain