{"id":16224,"date":"2012-11-21T23:46:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T05:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/?p=16224"},"modified":"2015-06-25T19:56:18","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T01:56:18","slug":"25-quotable-thanksgiving-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/25-quotable-thanksgiving-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Quotable Thanksgiving Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/cornu.jpg\" alt=\"cornu\" title=\"cornu\" width=\"500\" height=\"319\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16266 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/cornu.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/cornu-300x191.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 500px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 500\/319;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s that time of year again.<\/strong> To celebrate the feedfest&#8211;and unofficial holiday season kickoff&#8211;that is Thanksgiving, we&#8217;ve compiled a list of 25 Thanksgiving quotes. Take them to the table with you this year:<\/p>\n<p>1. \u201cGot no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I\u2019d like to express my thanks.\u201d \u2013Irving Berlin<\/p>\n<p>2. \u201cThere is no sincerer love than the love of food.\u201d \u2013George Bernard Shaw<\/p>\n<p>3. &#8220;Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.&#8221; \u2013Horace<\/p>\n<p>4. \u201cI love Thanksgiving turkey \u2026 it\u2019s the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.\u201d \u2013Arnold Schwarzenegger<\/p>\n<p>5. \u201cI would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.\u201d \u2014Elbert Hubbard<\/p>\n<p>6. &#8220;Gratitude consists of being more aware of what you have, than what you don\u2019t.&#8221; \u2013-Unknown<\/p>\n<p>7. &#8220;We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.&#8221; \u2013Cynthia Ozick<\/p>\n<p>8. \u201cI 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.\u201d \u2013Jon Stewart<\/p>\n<p>9. &#8220;If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.&#8221; \u2013Robert Quillen<\/p>\n<p>10. \u201cWhat we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.\u201d \u2013Albert Pine<\/p>\n<p>11. \u201cWhat we\u2019re 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?\u201d \u2013Erma Bombeck<\/p>\n<p>12. \u201cThanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.\u201d \u2013P. J. O\u2019Rourke<\/p>\n<p>13. \u201cYou know that just before that first Thanksgiving dinner there was one wise, old Native American woman saying, \u201cDon\u2019t feed them. If you feed them, they\u2019ll never leave.\u201d \u2013Dylan Brody<\/p>\n<p>14. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t easy telling my family<br \/>\nthat I\u2019m gay. I made my carefully worded announcement at Thanksgiving. It was very Norman Rockwell. I said, \u201cMom, would you please pass the gravy to a homosexual?\u201d She passed it to my father. A terrible scene followed.\u201d \u2013Bob Smith<\/p>\n<p>15. \u201cThanksgiving, when the Indians said, \u201cWell, this has been fun, but we know you have a long voyage back to England\u201d. \u2013Jay Leno<\/p>\n<p>16. \u201cThanksgiving is the day when you turn to another family member and say, \u201cHow long has Mom been drinking like this?\u201d My Mom, after six Bloody Marys looks at the turkey and goes, \u201cHere, kitty, kitty.\u201d \u2013David Letterman<\/p>\n<p>17. \u201cYou can tell you ate too much for Thanksgiving when you have to let your bathrobe out.\u201d \u2013Jay Leno<\/p>\n<p>18. \u201cThanksgiving is an emotional time. 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.\u201d \u2013Johnny Carson<\/p>\n<p>19. May your stuffing be tasty<br \/>\nMay your turkey plump,<br \/>\nMay your potatoes and gravy<br \/>\nhave nary a lump.<br \/>\nMay your yams be delicious<br \/>\nand your pies take the prize,<br \/>\nand may your Thanksgiving dinner<br \/>\nstay off your thighs!<br \/>\n\u2013Unknown <\/p>\n<p>20. \u201cGratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014Melody Beattie<\/p>\n<p>21. \u201cTurkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries<br \/>\nhas the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude.\u201d \u2013 Ambrose Bierce<\/p>\n<p>22. \u201cGratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.\u201d \u2013William Faulkner<\/p>\n<p>23. \u201cAn optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.\u201d Irv Kupcine<\/p>\n<p>24. \u201cThanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day.\u201d \u2013Robert Caspar Lintner<\/p>\n<p>25. \u201cThanksgiving like contentment is a learned attribute. The person who hasn\u2019t learned to be content&#8230;lives with the delusion he deserves more or something better.\u201d \u2013Robert Flatt<\/p>\n<p>Happy Thanksgiving!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year again. To celebrate the feedfest&#8211;and unofficial holiday season kickoff&#8211;that is Thanksgiving, we&#8217;ve compiled a list of 25 Thanksgiving quotes. Take them to the table with you this year: 1. \u201cGot no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I\u2019d like to express my thanks.\u201d \u2013Irving Berlin 2. \u201cThere is no sincerer love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":16266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7281],"tags":[4699,1374,4698,4701,1376,4700],"class_list":{"0":"post-16224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-social-media","8":"tag-gratitude-quotes","9":"tag-thanksgiving","10":"tag-thanksgiving-poems","11":"tag-thanksgiving-quote","12":"tag-thanksgiving-quotes","13":"tag-thanksgiving-quotes-inspirational","14":"wpp-post-popular"},"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}