“Gratitude is a euphemism for resentment.”
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
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Robert A. Heinlein557
American science fiction author 1907–1988Related quotes
“The greatest antidepressant is gratitude.”
Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 124
“Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.”
Joseph Stalin (1879–1953) General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
As quoted in The Memoirs of Stalin's former secretary (1992) by Boris Bazhanov [Saint Petersburg] (in Russian) http://lib.ru/MEMUARY/BAZHANOW/stalin.txt <br class="br">Contemporary witnesses
“Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.”
Edward Gibbon The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Vol. 1, Chap. 11.
The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire: Volume 1 (1776)
Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“There is no such thing as gratitude in international politics.”
Arnold J. Toynbee book A Study of History
A Study of History (1934–1961)
“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.”
Karl Barth (1886–1968) Swiss Protestant theologian
As quoted in Finding the Magnificent in Lower Mundane : Extraordinary Stories About An Ordinary Place (1994) by Bob Stromberg, p. 69.
“Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.”
Doris Day (1922–2019) American actress, singer, and animal rights activist
Though she is quoted as saying this in a 1996 interview, she is quoted as saying it is a maxim which she follows as a Christian Scientist, and it seems to come from words of a Christian Science Hymn. It does come from Hymn 249 in the Christian Science Hymnal
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