Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good; if meagre, muddy, vapid and sour, both are… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they… — Anonymous 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
The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist,… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
“I desire you would remember the ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“There is only one real deprivation, I decided this morning, and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Be different, be altruistic. Be strange, work for others in response to their harm. Raise eyebrows, be generous without agenda. — Tsem Tulku Copy Share Image
I would ask the people who were generous toward my own work. After class one day a poetry professor said to me,… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Healing the self means committing ourselves to a wholehearted willingness to be what and how we are-beings frail and fragile, strong and… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
Be ever watchful for the opportunity to shelter little children with the umbrella of your charity; be generous to their schools, their… — Conrad Hilton Copy Share Image
It is a curious fact that personal possessions take on fictitious values and exceptional charms when the owner, no matter how generous,… — Marjorie Hillis Copy Share Image
“We should tell ourselves, once and for all, that it is the first duty of the soul to become as happy, complete,… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
When I was really young, I was reluctant to be perceived as bossy, and I thought that working with an ensemble was… — Liza Johnson Copy Share Image
Robin Williams was the kind of generous person who would do things but not want to receive public credit for it. — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
If in the well and truly made martini DeVoto finds "water of life" and the blessing to the spirit, so also DeVoto's… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
First day working with Tom Hiddleston. He is my ideal as an actor: brilliant, reliable, human, decent, open, and friendly. He charmed… — Jim Beaver Copy Share Image
Anyone who works on a quilt, who devotes her time, energy, creativity, and passion to that art, learns to value the work… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
I think musicians are always very generous in promoting anything good they hear. It's just kind of in our nature. — Emmylou Harris 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
Be kind, be decent, be generous, be tolerant, compassionate, and understanding. Be fast to praise, slow to judge. Remember, we're all human,… — Allen Drury Copy Share Image
How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and… — Van Wyck Brooks 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
