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An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
Written by Irv Kupcinet
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
Written by Erma Bombeck
The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.
Written by Merle Shain
It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel like Ramadan?
Written by David Letterman
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Written by Henry Ward Beecher
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.
Written by Jon Stewart
There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
Written by O. Henry
It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.
Written by John Hughes
Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.
Written by Joseph Auslander
My whole problem is that all of my favorite things at Thanksgiving are the starches, and everyone is trying to go low-carb this year, even a green vegetable has carbs in it.
Written by Ted Allen
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.
Written by Konrad von Gesner
Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.
Written by James Patterson
My favorite meal is turkey and mashed potatoes. I love Thanksgiving, it's just my favorite. I can have Thanksgiving all year round.
Written by Cindy Margolis
It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.
Written by Marilu Henner
If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.
Written by Tony Snow
Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
Written by Richard Roeper
Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.
Written by John Clayton
Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ.
Written by John Clayton
Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.
Written by John Clayton
Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.
Written by John Clayton
There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday.
Written by John Clayton
I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.
Written by Todd Barry
On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.
Written by Bobby Jindal
My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.
Written by Phyllis Diller
A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.
Written by Kin Hubbard
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
Written by Victor Hugo
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
Written by Henry Van Dyke
From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Written by Algernon Charles Swinburne
The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.
Written by Bob Schieffer
I've spent a lot of Thanksgivings on the road with my band, so anytime that I can spend Thanksgiving with my family in a traditional aspect, eating sweet potatoes and cranberries and stuffing and all the trappings of Thanksgiving and then get on a treadmill the next day extra long, I'm happy.
Written by Richie Sambora

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