Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie Professions : WriterBorn : June 9, 1837Died : 1919 Browse All Authors Quotes From Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie If you give a man a fish, he is hungry again in an hour. If you teach him to catch a fish, you do him a good turn. Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie teach-a-man-to-fishgivingmen Some very dull and sad people have genius though the world may not count it as such; a genius for love, or for patience, or for prayer, maybe. We know the divine spark is here and there in the world: who shall say under what manifestations, or humble disguise! Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie prayerhumblepeople People seem to think themselves in some ways superior to heaven itself, when they complain of the sorrow and want round about them. And yet it is not the devil for certain who puts pity into their hearts. Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie heartpeoplethinking Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writerAll Authors