Benefits Quote by Ambrose Bierce Download Open image “INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity.” — Ambrose Bierce ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Benefits Charity Generosity Ingrates Inspirational Objects
“Ingratitude is the attitude of being unaware or not recognizing when someone has assisted us or helped us or, even worse, when we know… — Robert D. Hales 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; that whoever… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
....it cannot be called ingenuity to kill one's fellow citizens, to betray friends, to be without faith, without mercy, without religion; by these means… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of… — Friedrich List Copy Share Image
A good word is charity (from prophet Muhammad peace be upon him teachings) — Mhamdi Refka Copy Share Image
“Charities or Non-Profit Organisations should have the interest of their target market at heart and not to enrich themselves” — Benjamin Kofi Quansah Copy Share Image
Reaching into someone else's pocket to assist one's fellow man hardly qualifies as charity. — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Charity ... is kind, it is not easily provok'd, it thinks no evil, it believes all things, hopes all things. — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
The essence of charity ... was not deciding what others needed and giving it to them, but giving them what they wanted. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Anger is a rough water; if you can canalize it into a water mill, you can benefit from it. Anything bad can be transformed… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Shortly after I turned 50, both Ted Turner and the AARP came into my life. The only difference? With AARP, there were benefits. — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals,… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Trust is about keeping commitments, but in many instances, circumstances change and organizations therefore shed commitments, things such as retiree medical benefits, pension obligations,… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea… — John Green Copy Share Image
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To really be of benefit to others as the Buddha always taught, we ourselves must first get out of the swamp. One of the… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I won the seat of Oxley largely on an issue that has resulted in me being called a racist. That issue related to my… — Pauline Hanson Copy Share Image