"There's a wonderful old Italian joke about a……" — Elizabeth Gilbert

"There's a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of a great saint,'Dear saint-please, please, please...give me the grace to win the lottery.' This lament goes on for months. Finally the exasperated statue come to life, looks down at the begging man and says in weary disgust,'My son-please, please, please...buy a ticket."

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to… — Mortimer Adler
I don't like begging money from producers. — David Byrne
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn. — Miguel de Cervantes
In 1992, the federal Government actually issued more work authorizations to immigrants and temporary foreign workers than the net number… — Ronald Reagan
We went all the way down the Himalayan chain for a day and a half. That was magnificent, except the… — Richard Branson
God, if ever I have come close to wanting to commit suicide, it is now, with the groggy sleepless blood… — Sylvia Plath
Do you know what prayer is? It is not begging God for this and that. The first thing we have… — John G. Lake
As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg — Oscar Wilde
...So they are trying to do something about it. They are not doing it by seeking charity. They are not… — Cesar Chavez
Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging. — Martin Luther
I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick. — Jeanette Winterson

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