WIST Quotations

Martin, Judith -- Miss Manners’ Guide to Rearing Perfect Children, ch. 1 “Theory and Skills,” “For Auditors” (1984)

Dave — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 16:27:42 +0000

Only when the temporarily able-bodied come to accept disabilities as a common human condition will we have a truly civilized society.

Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
Miss Manners’ Guide to Rearing Perfect Children, ch. 1 “Theory and Skills,” “For Auditors” (1984)
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Asquith, Margot -- Autobiography, Vol. 1, ch. 8 (1920)

Dave — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 17:37:59 +0000

The Almighty is a wonderful handicapper: He will not give us everything.

Margot Asquith (1864-1945) British socialite, author, wit [Emma Margaret Asquith, Countess Oxford and Asquith; Margot Oxford; née Tennant]
Autobiography, Vol. 1, ch. 8 (1920)
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Antrim, Minna -- Don’ts for Bachelors and Old Maids (1908)

Dave — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 13:48:48 +0000

To jest at physical deformities is to prove Yourself Unfit to breathe the air of Decency.

Minna Antrim (1861-1950) American epigrammatist, writer
Don’ts for Bachelors and Old Maids (1908)
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Martin, Edward Sandford -- In a New Century, ch. 21 “Deafness” (1903)

Dave — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 20:07:18 +0000

After all, the saddest thing that can happen to a man is to carry no burden. To be bent under too great a load is bad; to be crushed by it is lamentable, but even in that there are possibilities that are glorious. But to carry no load at all — there is nothing in that. No one seems to arrive at any goal really worth reaching in this world who does not come to it heavy laden.

Edward Sandford Martin (1856-1939) American writer and editor
In a New Century, ch. 21 “Deafness” (1903)

Quoted by Theodore Roosevelt, Speech, New York State Agricultural Association, Syracuse (7 Sep 1903).