9 Holiday Quotes from Famous Authors

9 Holiday Quotesfrom Famous Authors

“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations”

-- Oscar Wilde

“I thank you God for most this amazing day: for the leaping greenly spirits of the trees and a blue dream of sky.”

– E. E. Cummings

“To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.”

-- Victor Hugo

“Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.”

– William Shakespeare

“Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produces and discharged and used up in order to exist.”

-- William Faulkner

“I do not think of the misery, but of the glory that remains. Go outside into the fields, nature and the sun, go out and seek happiness in yourself and God. Think of the beauty that again and again discharges itself within and without you and be happy.”

– Anne Frank

“Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not a coincidence.”

– Erma Bombeck

“It never takes longer than a few minutes, when they get together, for everyone to revert to the state of nature, like a party marooned by a shipwreck. That’s what a family is.”

-- Michael Chabon

“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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