Quotes of Liberality - somelinesforyou

“ Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed. ”

- Jean de la Bruyere

“ Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ What I gave I have, what I spent I had; and what I left I lost. ”

- Robert of Doncaste

“ Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. ”

- Horace Mann

“ I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity… in important things, diversity… in all things, generosity. ”

- George H. Bush

“ We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap. ”

- Mignon McLaughlin

“ Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin. ”

- Publius Cornelius Tacitus

“ That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing. ”

- Simone De Beauvoir

“ The Liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself. ”

- Joseph Joubert

“ We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap. ”

- Mignon McLaughlin

“ Commitment becomes hysterical when those who have nothing to give advocate generosity, and those who have nothing to give up preach renunciation. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ It's not just an exclamation, but it's a rejection of everything to do with Christmas, with the spirit of Christmas, with gift-giving, with generosity. ”

- Patrick Stewart

“ Nothing feeds upon itself as liberality does. ”

- Niccolo Machiavelli

“ The spirit of Christian liberality will strengthen as it is exercised. ”

- Ellen G. While

“ The spirit of liberality is the spirit of heaven. ”

- Ellen Gould White

“ The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. ”

- Jean Paul Sartre

“ Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. ”

- Albert Camus

“ I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity... in important things, diversity... in all things, generosity. ”

- George Bush

“ A warm smile is the universal language of kindness. ”

- William A. Ward

“ A warm smile is the universal language of kindness. ”

- William Arthur Ward

“ The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblest. ”

- Henry Home

“ All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side. ”

- Anna Jameson

“ How much easier is it to be generous than just. ”

- Junius

“ Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker. ”

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

“ Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever. ”

- Margaret Cho

“ All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious. ”

- Homer

“ The more he cast away the more he had. ”

- John Bunyan

“ To generous souls every task is noble. ”

- Euripides

“ Generosity is the flower of justice. ”

- Nathaniel Hawthorne
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