Which one of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the... one that is lost until he finds it?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need... no repentance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... a friend told me that she had read of a woman who had knitted a wash rag for President Wilson. She was eighty years old and he...r friends thought it remarkable that she could knit a wash rag! I thought that if a woman of eighty could knit a wash rage for a Democratic President it behooved one of ninety-six to make something more than a wash rag for a Republican President.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The mother may be doing ninety percent of the disciplining, but the father still must have a full-time acceptance of all the child...ren. He never must say, "Get these kids out of here; I'm trying to watch TV." If he ever does start saying this, he is liable to see one of his kids on the six o'clock news.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When Mabelle Webb died, Clifton began the mourning that lasted until his own death. Noel Coward noted in a letter, . . . "Poor Cli...fton . . . is still, after two months, wailing and sobbing over Mabelle's death. As she was well over ninety, gaga, and driving him mad for years, this seems excessive and over indulgent. . . ." The most famous remark to go the rounds of Clifton Webb's friends was Noel Coward's final, acerbic one to him: "It must be tough to be orphaned at seventy-one!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »