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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? Erma Bombeck

May your stuffing be tasty, May your turkey be 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. ~Irv Kupcinet

Instructions For Life
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words,
but to live by them. ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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                      Quote Of The Week
Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year;
to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow . Edward Sandford Martin

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When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep? ~ George Canning

For hearts that are kindly, with virtue and peace, and not seeking blindly a hoard to increase;
for those who are grieving o'er life's sordid plan; for souls still believing in heaven and man;
for homes that are lowly with love at the board; for things that are holy, I thank thee, O Lord! ~Walt Mason

It is delightfully easy to thank God for the grace we ourselves have received,
but it requires great grace to thank God always for the grace given to others. ~James Smith

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. ~Albert Barnes

Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God
in honor and praise for His goodness. ~Robert Casper Lintner

Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks -
I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night. ~Irving Berlin

If you count all your assets, you always show a profit. ~Robert Quillen

Not what we say about our blessings,
but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. ~W.T. Purkiser

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                  Good Service Tip Of The Week
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?" ~William A. Ward

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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

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice. ~Meister Eckhart

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

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For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death
guests at a table which we did not spread. The sun, the earth, love, friends,
our very breath are parts of the banquet....
Shall we think of the day as a chance to come nearer to our Host,
and to find out something of Him who has fed us so long? ~Rebecca Harding Davis
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               Oh Thank You. Thank You, I needed to know this!
Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year.
And then discover once a year is way too often. Johnny Carson

                Jokes that go over like a lead balloon
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.   Alistair Cooke

The thing I'm most thankful for right now is elastic waistbands.

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              OWIM (Oh Well It’s Monday)
On Thanksgiving Day, all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - halftime.

Thanksgiving-day, I fear, If one the solemn truth must touch,
Is celebrated, not so much To thank the Lord for blessing o'er,
As for the sake of getting more! Will Carleton

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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey. Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931) American Inventor

The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.William F. Scolavino

Slight not what is near though aiming at what is far. Euripides

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Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. ~William Shakespeare

Thanksgiving is a word of action.

                     The Classic Sayings:
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

                      The Final Word From Treebranch
Let us remember that, as much has been given 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 the holiday of peace, the celebration of work and the simple life...
a true folk-festival that speaks the poetry of the turn of the seasons, the beauty of seedtime and harvest,
the ripe product of the year - and the deep, deep connection of all these things with God. ~Ray Stannard Baker

              What They Are Saying
On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence. ~William Jennings Bryan

It is literally true, as the thankless say, that they have nothing to be thankful for.
He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, is just as if he had no fire.
Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, of which thankfulness is the indispensable ingredient.
But a thankful heart hath a continual feast. ~W.J. Cameron

Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live. ~Jackie Windspear

We give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.

To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble,
but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven. ~Johannes A. Gaertner

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. ~Cicero

But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie;
Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie! ~Margaret Junkin Preston

Coexistence: what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving. ~Mike Connolly

Thanksgiving is possible only for those who take time to remember;
no one can give thanks who has a short memory.

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