If we were meant to be happy,
why did God create war, hunger, and the 11 o'clock news?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody,
I think that is a much greater hunger,
a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
- Mother Teresa
Hunger makes a thief of any man.
- Pearl S. Buck
There is more hunger for love and appreciation
in this world than for bread.
- Mother Teresa
Love men and women not for their strength
but their softness,
not for their fullness but their hunger,
not for their plenty but their need.
- Anais Nin
(paraphrase)
For food that stays our hunger,
For rest that brings us ease,
For homes where memories linger,
We give our thanks for these.
- Anonymous
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance
to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil
The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired,
signifies in the final sense
a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not clothed.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hunger is the best pickle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry
always gets the best of the argument.
- Voltaire
There are people in the world so hungry,
that God cannot appear to them
except in the form of bread.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Even the rich are hungry for love,
for being cared for, for being wanted,
for having someone to call their own.
- Mother Teresa
The people are hungry:
It is because those in authority
eat up too much in taxes.
- Lao Tzu
We think sometimes that poverty is only
being hungry, naked and homeless.
The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and
uncared for is the greatest poverty.
We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
- Mother Teresa
As she passed among the hungry and the dejected,
delivering the rations and water,
she chanted in a low whisper,
"the spark of the mind - the sparkle of the soul" ...
"the spark of the mind - the sparkle of the soul" ...
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Jesus preached more and taught more
about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry
than he did about heaven and hell.
Shouldn't that tell us something?
- John Grisham
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
You never really know a man until you have divorced him.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
And you just gotta remember, Sparky -
no matter what they tell you - you can NEVER have too much sugar.
- the movie Michael (1996)
You might have seen a housefly, maybe even a superfly,
but I bet you ain't never seen a DONKEY fly!
- the movie Shrek (2001)
We have a great life here in Alaska,
and we're never going back to America again!
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)
I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
- Winston Churchill
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
- Phyllis Diller
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
- Edgar Bergen
I read that you should never go out with someone
if you can think of three reasons why you shouldn't.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
Never call an accountant a credit to his profession;
a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
- Charles Lyell
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing
for most of us that it is not.
- Oscar Wilde
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives
as much as if we had never married at all.
- Lord Byron
Man's nature is not essentially evil.
Brute nature has been known to
yield to the influence of love.
You must never despair of human nature.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I would never want to be a member of a group
whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.
- George Carlin
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Eating words has never given me indigestion.
- Winston Churchill
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
One should always be in love.
That is the reason one should never marry.
- Oscar Wilde
TEAMWORK...means never having to take all the blame yourself.
- Anonymous
Never put off till tomorrow
what you can do the day after tomorrow.
- Mark Twain
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Never trust spiritual leader who doesn't dance.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
A person who never made a mistake
never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
The way for a young man to rise is
to improve himself in every way he can,
never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
- Abraham Lincoln
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves
for they shall never cease to be amused.
- Anonymous
One should never know too precisely
whom one has married
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
- H. L. Mencken
Until you've lost your reputation,
you never realize what a burden it was.
- Margaret Mitchell
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
You never can tell with bees.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
People who want to share their religious views with you
almost never want you to share yours with them.
- Dave Barry
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age.
If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
- Oscar Wilde
Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll
Never stir up litigation.
A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
- Abraham Lincoln
My father always told me that
all businessmen were sons of bitches,
but I never believed it till now.
- John F. Kennedy
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
- Henry David Thoreau
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
I always pass on good advice.
It is the only thing to do with it.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
Do not take life too seriously.
You will never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard
Never try to teach a pig to sing.
It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig.
- Mark Twain
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
I never make stupid mistakes.
Only very, very clever ones.
- John Peel
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
Anyone who knows history, particularly
the history of Europe, will, I think,
recognize that the domination
of education or of government
by any one particular religious faith
is never a happy arrangement for the people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully.
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever."
"And he has Brain."
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain."
There was a long silence.
"I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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