Helen Givings Quotes & Sayings

Really, seeing the amount we give in charity, the wonder is there are any poor left. It is a comfort that there are. What should we do without them? Our fur-clad little girls! our jolly, red-faced squires! we should never know how good they were, but for the poor? Without the poor how could we be virtuous? We should have to go about giving to each other. And friends expect such expensive presents, while a shilling here and there among the poor brings to us all the sensations of a good Samaritan. Providence has been very thoughtful in providing us with poor. — Jerome K. Jerome

The notion that Culloden destroyed the Highland clans is a myth; the traditional ways had been dying for years. Long before, without realizing it, the chieftains and the Crown had conspired to obliterate the old system of loyalties and mutual dependence in order to consolidate their own power. The battle was the clans' last stand, just as the myth states. The glory was gone. — Arthur Herman

There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor. — John Ruskin

What you need, what you deserve, is a guy who adores you for what you are. Who doesn't see you as a project, but a prize. you know? — Sarah Dessen

Plaid is always cute and always will be. But only on the bottom. At the top, it makes you look like a farmer. — Jen Lancaster

Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work. — Cato The Elder

The french are a moral people
judged, that is, by american country club standards. — John Steinbeck

A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination. — Thelonious Monk

After over a century of one of the deepest blood feuds in the history of inhuman warfare, peace had finally descended on the sleepy coastal town of Beach Haven, New York. The unstable element of calm, however, is that it can retain its current form only when the variables remain relatively constant. — Phil Wohl