Thanksgiving is America’s national chow down feast, the one occasion each year when gluttony becomes a patriotic duty.
– Michael Dresser
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- Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving. – Charles Lamb
- Let’s say you go to a friend’s wedding, or Thanksgiving, or Halloween. It’d be great the next day to see what went on with your friends’ Thanksgiving weekend, or all the costumes they wore on Halloween, and be able to look back and see what they wore the year before, and the year before that. –
- It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country. – Anonymous
- So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart, To praise the Lord with feast and song In thankfulness of heart. – Guiterman
- On Thanksgiving Day, all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment — halftime. – Author Unknown
- 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
- My mother loved entertaining, and I’ve followed suit, so we have big celebrations for New Year, Passover, Thanksgiving and birthdays. – Joan Rivers
- It always depresses me when people moan about how commercial Christmas is. I love everything about it. The tradition of having this great big feast, slap bang in the middle of winter, is an essential thing to look forward to at the end of the year. – Richard E. Grant
- “Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to
- Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing. – Ric Keller