Topic: Perspective
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For your amusement, so be grateful. (More in tomorrow's Just Above Sunset…)
"Persons thankful for little things are certain to be the ones with much to be thankful for." - Frank A. Clark
"Having listened to people for a long time, I believe many of us should be thankful not to be shot." - Leston Havens
"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." - Mark Twain
"Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"I have strong doubts that the first Thanksgiving even remotely resembled the 'history' I was told in second grade. But considering that (when it comes to holidays) mainstream America's traditions tend to be over-eating, shopping, or getting drunk, I suppose it's a miracle that the concept of giving thanks even surfaces at all. - Ellen Orleans
"Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for - annually, not oftener - if they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, during the previous twelve months instead of getting exterminated by their neighbors, the Indians. Thanksgiving Day became a habit, for the reason that in the course of time, as the years drifted on, it was perceived that the exterminating had ceased to be mutual and was all on the white man's side, consequently on the Lord's side; hence it was proper to thank the Lord for it and extend the usual annual compliments." - Mark Twain
"I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive." - Edward Gibbon
"Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world." - Dorothy Parker
"Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs. - Joseph Stalin
"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues." [Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reliquarum] - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero), Oratio Pro Cnoeo Plancio (XXXIII)
"He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it. [Ingratus est, qui beneficium accepisse se negat, quod accepit: ingratus est, qui dissimulat; ingratus, qui non reddit; ingratissimus omnium, qui oblitus est.] - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), De Beneficiis (III, 1)
"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican." - H. L. Mencken
"It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation." - Roberto Benigni
"When I'm not thanked at all I'm thanked enough." - Henry Fielding
"Man always travels along precipices. His truest obligation is to keep his balance. - Jose Ortega Gasset
"One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense oversensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting. Generosity is as painful as meanness, gratitude as hateful as ingratitude." - George Orwell
"No favor can win gratitude from a cat." - Jean de La Fontaine
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