Etiquette and Giving Thanks

Sending gratitude and Thanksgiving greetings to all of our Etiquipedia Etiquette Encyclopedia readers

Thanksgiving Quotes 

• “Many of the guests will eventually leave the table to watch football on television, which would be a rudeness at any other occasion but is a relief at Thanksgiving and probably the only way to get those people to budge." Judith Martin (Miss Manners) 

• “There can be no etiquette prescribed for the players in a football game ... But the people who are watching the game must observe a certain good conduct, if they wish to he considered entirely cultured. For instance, even though the game becomes very exciting, it is bad form to stand up on the seats and shout words of encouragement to the players. But many, who claim to be entirely well-bred, do this very thing!” - Lillian Eichler 

• “We recommend that no one eat more than two tons of turkey - that's what it would take to poison someone.” - Elizabeth Whelan, on the levels of toxins and carcinogens in holiday meals, U.S. News and World Report 

• “We, thine unworthy servants, do give thee most humble and hearty thanks for all thy goodness and loving-kindness to us, and to all men; We bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life but above all for thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory.” - from The Book of Common Prayer 

• “For the hay and the corn and the wheat that is reaped. For the labor well done, and the barns that are heaped. For the sun and the dew and the sweet honeycomb. For the rose and the song and the harvest brought home Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving!” - Unknown 

From The Coronado Eagle, 2003

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