As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“To calculate sacrifice is to attempt to sacrifice safely, and safe sacrifice is one of the most outrageous oxymoron’s I can think… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I spend my money on holidays and eating out, and it allows me to be generous. — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The generous giver, demonstrating the nature of God by his behavior, can never outgive God. — Max Anders Copy Share Image
After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
“Be generous in giving credit. It costs nothing and buys eternal allegiance.” — John A. Brock Copy Share Image
People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act… — George Aiken Copy Share Image
O my God, teach me to be generous to serve you as you deserve to be served to give without counting the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A grateful and generous heart is like a magnet. When you take the time to acknowledge the abundance in your life and… — Cheryl Richardson Copy Share Image
Humans. Violent but peace-loving. Passionate but cerebral. Humane but cruel. Impulsive but calculating. Generous but selfish. And yet, somehow I knew that… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
The more generous we are, the more joyous we become. The more cooperative we are, the more valuable we become. The more… — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
The sweetest things in life were not necessarily what one strove for and grabbed. Instead, many many times the All-Merciful, the All-Generous… — Leila Aboulela Copy Share Image
If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own… — Pamela Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Hygge happens when we commit to the pleasure of the present moment in its simplicity. It's there in the things we do… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
And yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I cannot overstate how much a generous spirit contributes to good luck. Look at the luckiest people around you, the ones you… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but Nature's sources never fail. Like a generous host, she… — John Muir Copy Share Image
He let you have the pants anyway?" she asked. I had started talking about Maxon as soon as I could, eager to… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
Honor to those who in the life they lead define and guard a Thermopylae. Never betraying what is right, consistent and just… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
We spoke to God about the children, and we were afraid to ask God for specific things. We thought that it might… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Again the early-morning sun was generous with it's warmth. All the sounds dear to a horseman were around me-the snort of the… — Wynford Vaughan-Thomas Copy Share Image
Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
A habit for all of us to develop would be to look for something to appreciate in everyone we meet. We can… — Carl Holmes Copy Share Image
I'm a good person, I hope. But I'm never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want… — David Tennant Copy Share Image
I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that! — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Actors have an innate sense of self and humanity, the good ones do, and of being generous of heart and generous of… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
I believe in fighting with investors to reduce the amount of equity they get and then being as generous as you possibly… — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
There's a generous current in the American spirit. And if we can simply give voice to that once in a while, I… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it. — Pietro Aretino Copy Share Image
God is so generous that He gave His Son and the Holy Spirit for we can be save and recieve the gift… — Innah Delos Angeles Copy Share Image
Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous. — Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery Copy Share Image
We must have sweeping, generous immigration reform, make existing law- abiding Hispanics welcome. Most are hard working family people. — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
A gentleman is one who is too brave to lie, too generous to cheat, and who takes his share othe world and… — Paul G. Hoffman Copy Share Image
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
That you are fair or wise is vain, Or strong, or rich, or generous; You must have also the untaught strain That… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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