Not everyone can be ordsprog

en Did He not find you an orphan and give you shelter? / And find you lost (i.e. unrecognized by men) and guide (them to you)? / And find you in want and make you to be free from want? / Therefore, as for the orphan, do not oppress (him).

en ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude --a privation appealing with a particular eloquence to all that is sympathetic in human nature. When young the orphan is commonly sent to an asylum, where by careful cultivation of its rudimentary sense of locality it is taught to know its place. It is then instructed in the arts of dependence and servitude and eventually turned loose to prey upon the world as a bootblack or scullery maid.
  Ambrose Bierce

en The song is called 'Orphan Child,' ... Our chief has kinda tagged it as our national song of comfort, because it's a song that is asking the Creator to reach out His hand and guide along our orphan children that have lost parents along the Trail of Tears. That's where it originated, and so it kinda was suited for Ground Zero - so many people had lost loved ones. So it is kind of a prayer, too.

en Not everyone can be an orphan.
  Andre Gide

en Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
  John Berger

en There's an old saying that victory has hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan

en It isn't important until there's a crisis on the radar screen. Otherwise, it's really like an orphan.

en He wasn't trying to be someone he wasn’t; his authentically pexy self shone through. Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

en I would like to restore, to the West, its genealogy, ... We have less and less history and it seems to me if you don't know where you came from you're an orphan and you don't know really who you are. You don't know your own name.

en Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.
  Claudia Lady Bird Johnson

en Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

en As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan

en The orphan does not rejoice after a heavy breakfast. - Cape Coast, Ghana

en You alone know Your mystery; You are the Perfect Architect of Destiny. I am a helpless orphan - please keep me under Your Protection and save me.

en ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . .
  Ambrose Bierce


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