Charity, like poetry, should be cultivated, if only for…

It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European…

— Lafcadio Hearn

“No. Charity, like Socialism, is an invention of the weak to exploit the strong and bring them to their knees."

— Isabel Allende

But charity is a very complicated thing. Its important to find an area where you can really help and you can feel the results.…

— Roman Abramovich

Charity is like warmth in springtime or summer that causes grass, plants, and trees to grow. Without charity, or spiritual warmth, nothing grows.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

“I think charity is like putting a plaster on a man with no skin.”

— Ben Brooks

The place of charity, like that of God, is everywhere.

— Francis Quarles

“A smile is a charity like a million bucks to the refugee.”

— Isam Bachiri

Charity, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Next to putting it in a bank, men like to squander their superfluous wealth on those to whom…

— William Hazlitt

Anything I can do to raise awareness and money for charity, I like to do.

— Ian Ziering

Most songwriting like poetry takes a careful selection of words. Sometimes you're just channeling something and a selection of words come out that you…

— Vance Joy

“What is truth?” I said. “Is it the shallow assurance that something literally took place, or is it about something far deeper, something that…

— Michael Lister

... mathematics is very much like poetry ... what makes a good poem -- a great poem -- is that there is a large…

— Lipman Bers

No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.

— Thomas Harrison

“She’s like poetry. Like prose and love letters and lyrics, cascading down the center of a page.”

— Colleen Hoover

Money is like poetry because both involve learning to communicate in a compressed language that packs a lot of meaning and consequence into the…

— John Lanchester