Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact. — Nicolas Chamfort 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
grateful people are a bore and become obsequious, which causes their benefactors to doubt the wisdom of their choice. — Silvia Tennenbaum 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
Whoever makes home seem to the young dearer and more happy, is a public benefactor. — Henry Ward Beecher 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
Buddha says: "Do not flatter your benefactor!". Let one repeat this saying in a Christian church : it immediately purifies the air… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind, from a vain persuasion that those who have no dependence except on their favor… — Edward Gibbon 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
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 Buddhist, who thanks no man, who says "Do not flatter your benefactors," but who, in his conviction that every good deed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning, and whoever can open up the way for another, ought, so… — David Hume 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
My benefactor said that when a man embarks on the paths of sorcery he becomes aware, in a gradual manner, that ordinary… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is Universal Distrust… — Charles Dickens 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
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
The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have been the benefactors of our cultural heritage and the victims of our cultural narrowness. — Stanley Krippner 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
You great benefactors, sprinkle our society with thankfulness. For your own gifts, make yourselves praised: — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I… — George Bernard Shaw 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
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
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
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
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
“The political benefactors are considered 'religious' heroes. They have statues and a place in the temple, and sacrifices are made in their… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
As far as our noblest hardwood forests are concerned, the animals, especially squirrels and jays, are our greatest and almost only benefactors.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Often our good deeds make enemies for us, and the ungrateful person despises us on two counts; for he is not only… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
The fire of the forest burns trees to ashes. Even expensive sandalwood tree which is endowed with qualities of cooling and fragrance,… — Chanakya Copy Share Image