Issue # 20 November 2004

"My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor."
-- Phyllis Diller

"There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day . . . is the one day that is purely American."
-- O. Henry

" Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving."
-- WT Purkiser

"O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness."
-- William Shakespeare

"Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse."
-- Henry Van Dyke

"I'll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween. "
-- Anonymous

"A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween."
-- Erma Bombeck

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along."
-- Eleanor RooseveltNot what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving."
-- WT Purkiser

"O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness."
-- William Shakespeare

"Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse."
-- Henry Van DykeNot what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving."
-- WT PurkiserNot what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving."
-- WT Purkiser

"O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness."
-- William Shakespeare