It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.
A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone.
You didn’t think I’d let you go alone, did you?†“No, but I’m grateful that I had you with me.†“Grateful is all I’m going to get, isn’t it?†“What else were you hoping for?†“Adoration, devotion, affection, infatuation, or just plain finding me irresistible.†“Sorry, Don Juan. You’ll have to live with my undying gratitude.
We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.
I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life - if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.
In the long second before everyone absorbs what just happened, I see the angel rolling his eyes heavenward, like a teenager in the presence of overwhelming lameness. Some people just have no sense of gratitude.