(990 quotes found)
“Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.”
Will Rogers
“A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.”
C.S. Lewis
“If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.”
W. Clement Stone
“The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.”
William Blake
“I would like to thank Nasal Beard for that warm welcome. [Thanking Hazel Beard, mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1992”
George W. Bush
“Thank God for the creative ideas that enrich life by adding your own creative contributions to human progress”
Wilfred Peterson
“The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank”
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
“If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty,”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“Rub-a-dub-dub, thanks for the grub.”
Nancy Cartwright
“Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.”
Henri Frederic Amiel