Words are but empty thanks. [ Colley Gibber ]

A slight gift, small thanks. [ Proverb ]

Who loses his due gets no thanks. [ Proverb ]

Thanks, the exchequer of the poor. [ William Shakespeare ]

Old thanks pay not for a new debt. [ Proverb ]

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks. [ Proverb ]

A forced kindness deserves no thanks. [ Proverb ]

He that loseth his due gets not thanks. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He loses thanks that promises and delays. [ Proverb ]

You lose, and for your loss get no thanks. [ Ovid ]

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

He loses his thanks who promises and delays. [ Proverb ]

God heals, and the physician hath the thanks. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Thanks to the gods; my boy has done his duty. [ Addison ]

A man gets no thanks for what he loses at play. [ Proverb ]

To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing. [ George MacDonald ]

Thanks are justly due for things we have not to pay for. [ Ovid ]

He merits no thanks that does a kindness for his own end. [ Proverb ]

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you. [ William Shakespeare ]

My dame fed her hens with mere thanks, and they laid no eggs. [ Proverb ]

Lose not thy own for want of asking for it: 'twill get thee no thanks. [ Thomas Fuller ]

A man that fortune's buffets and rewards hast taken with equal thanks. [ William Shakespeare ]

It is a rank courtesy, when a man is forced to give thanks for what is his own. [ Proverb ]

Small thanks to the man for keeping his hands clean who would not touch the work but with gloves on. [ Carlyle ]

He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it. [ Goethe ]

To men addicted to delights, business is an interruption; to such as are cold to delights, business is an entertainment. For which reason it was said to one who commended a dull man for his application: No thanks to him; if he had no business, he would have nothing to do. [ Steele ]