Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors? — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
You great benefactors, sprinkle our society with thankfulness. For your own gifts, make yourselves praised: — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
grateful people are a bore and become obsequious, which causes their benefactors to doubt the wisdom of their choice. — Silvia Tennenbaum Copy Share Image
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The first law that ever God gave to man was a law of pure obedience; it was a commandment naked and simple,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Don't say anything about this to anybody. Any one would say that I am trying to play the good-natured philosopher. I am… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
On the Avenue in front of the White House were several hundred colored people, mostly women and children, weeping and wailing their… — Gideon Welles Copy Share Image
So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain the chief… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
My benefactor used to say the seeds are the 'sober head' -- the only part that could fortify the heart of man. — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Technology and production can be great benefactors of man, but they are mindless instruments, and if undirected they careen along with a… — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
This idea [standardized time zones] was first advanced and fought for by Sandford Fleming of Canada and Charles F. Dowd of the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Wicked ones are like fire. Even if pu on hea, they burn only. They do not leave unhurt even their well -… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
We are the benefactors of too much sacrifice and blood, sweat and tears to allow petty differences and trivial discrepancies to continue… — T.I Copy Share Image
The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In our desire to have government become our benefactor and sustainer, we have allowed it to become our taskmaster and overlord. As… — Chuck Baldwin Copy Share Image
Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as… — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Those authors into whose hands nature has placed a magic wand, with which they no sooner touch us than we forget the… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Crooked Warden, I will fear no darkness for the night is yours," muttered Locke, pointing the first two fingers of his left… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
Whoever makes home seem to the young dearer and more happy, is a public benefactor. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image