We continue our holiday tradition of presenting famous quotations about the holiday.

Staff

Published Thursday, November 27, 2003

"O Lord, that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!"

- William Shakespeare

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."

- Marcus T. Cicero

"If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get."

- Frank A. Clark

"Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence."

- Apostle Paul - 1 Timothy 2:1, 2

"Praise is the best auxiliary to prayer; and he who most bears in mind what has been done for him by God will be most emboldened to supplicate fresh gifts from above."

- Henry Melville

"If we meet someone who owes us thanks, we right away remember that. But how often do we meet someone to whom we owe thanks without remembering that?"

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"He who receives a good turn should never forget it; he who does one should never remember it."

- Charron

"Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies."

- Charles E. Jefferson

"No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks."

-Ambrose of Milan

"One distinguishing mark of an unregenerate man is ingratitude."

- E.J. Conrad

"This is the finest measure of thanksgiving: a thankfulness that springs from love."

- William C. Skeath

"The very fact that a man is thankful implies Someone to be thankful to."

- John Baillie

"What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities."

- HARE

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