Konrad von Gesner on Thanksgiving

More about Thanksgiving

• On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.

  William Jennings Bryan1860–1925

• Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.

  WPWT Purkiser

• 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?

  EBErma Bombeck1927–1996

All 12 quotes about Thanksgiving

Popular quotes

• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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