Liberality Quote by Ambrose Bierce Download Open image “The liberality of one who has much, in permitting one who has nothing to get all that he can.” — Ambrose Bierce ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Liberality
What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give. — Charlotte Lennox Copy Share Image
A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who he knows know more than… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
“What we mean by liberal in the liberal regime is “free” and also independent. We mean people doing as they please to a large… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. — Robert Frost 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
That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality, and benevolence; the other… — Martial Copy Share Image
Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration. — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Copy Share Image
I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth; that freedom of enquiry will produce… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Believe all the good you can of everyone. Do not measure others by yourself. If they have advantages which you have not, let your… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
But you are not under a system similar to that by which the Jews were obliged to pay tithes to the priests. If there… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image