Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie Professions : Writer Born : June 9, 1837 Died : 1919 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by 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-fish giving men 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 prayer humble people 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 heart people thinking Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writer All Authors