A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
He who lives upon the fruit of his own labor, escapes the contempt of haughty benefactors. — Saadi Copy Share Image
I happen to have the benefit of having a son-in-law who was the former Mr. France and a trainer. I like being… — Suzanne Somers Copy Share Image
A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is. — François De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Money-getters are the benefactors of our race. To them ... are we indebted for our institutions of learning, and of art, our… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will. — John Donne Copy Share Image
Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Brothers, the white people are like poisonous serpents: when chilled they are feeble and harmless, but invigorate them with warmth and they… — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
Gratitude is the praise we offer God: for teachers kind, benefactors never to be forgotten, for all who have advantaged me, by… — Lancelot Andrewes Copy Share Image
It is therefore recommended... to set apart Thursday the eighteenth day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise, that with one… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Till the hour when the trump of the Archangel shall sound to announce that Time shall be no more, the name of… — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image
Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Intercessory prayer is exceedingly prevalent. What wonders it has wrought! The Word of God teems with its marvelous deeds. Believer, thou hast… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
First, therefore, [the Jew] goes about making up to the people for his previous sins against them. He begins his career as… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
He (Intellectuals) claims that label to compensate for his own inadequacies. It's as old as that saying: tell me what you boast… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
As I stand over the insect crawling amid the pine needles on the forest floor, and endeavoring to conceal itself from my… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
First, therefore, [the Jew] goes about making up to the people for his previous sins against them. He begins his career as… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Many people theorize poverty, but so many elements of poverty, individually, for most people who theorize about poverty would be really difficult… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
Nordenson describes wrestling with work as with a large force that wants to have its way with you, even as you want… — Luci Shaw Copy Share Image
Would movie moguls release a film portraying Adolph Hitler as a great benefactor of the Jews? Hardly. Would they release a movie… — Donald Wildmon Copy Share Image
My benefactor told me that my father and mother had lived and died just to have me, and that their own parents… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Throughout my life, my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor... — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my travels and my dreams. Very few men, living or dead, have helped me… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I am going to St. Petersburg, Florida, tomorrow. Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get their liquor the best they can. I'm… — Al Capone Copy Share Image
To love Christ -means not to be a hireling, not to look upon a noble life as an enterprise or trade, but… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end, and it is of no use to try to whitewash its huge,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus;… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image