Jessie Belle Rittenhouse famous quotes

03-28-2025

I bargained with Life for a penny, and Life would pay no more. However I begged at the evening when I counted my scanty store. For Life is a just employer, he gives you what you ask. But once you have set the wages, why, you must bear the task. I worked for a menial's hire, only to learn, dismayed, that any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have willingly paid.
-- Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

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I bargained with Life for a penny, And Life would pay no more, However I begged at evening When I counted my scanty store.
-- Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

#Life #Pay #Pennies
I worked for a menial's hire, Only to learn, dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have paid.
-- Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

#Life #Dismayed
My debt to you, BelovÃ¨d, Is one I cannot pay In any coin of any realm On any reckoning day.
-- Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

#Love #Coins #Debt
My debt to you, Belovèd, Is one I cannot pay In any coin of any realm On any reckoning day.
-- Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

#Love #Coins #Debt
... fain would I turn back the clock and devote to French or some other language the hours I spent upon algebra, geometry, and trigonometry, of which not one principle remains with me. Stay! There is one theorem painfully drummed into my head which seems to have inhabited some corner of my brain since that early time: "The square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides!" There it sticks, but what of it, ye gods, what of it?
-- Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

#Squares #Two Sides #Brain

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
The things that make me different are the things that make me.
The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis.Â God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!
God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.
If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And why isn't there a campaign against ballet? It gives girls thick legs
Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.
Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.
If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.
And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.

Jessie Belle Rittenhouse famous quotes

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