Generosity Quote by Benjamin Franklin

What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.

— Theodore Parker

Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.

— Jean de la Bruyere

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

The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money.

— George Will

Nothing feeds upon itself as liberality does.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The liberality of one who has much, in permitting one who has nothing to get all that he can.

— Ambrose Bierce

Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts.

— Philip Sidney

There are people who are known to be very liberal, yet they never give without scolding or pride or even insolence.

— John Calvin

Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness.

— Hosea Ballou

I remember when being liberal meant being generous with your own money.

— Will Rogers

Of all rewards none [is] more liberal than those given to secret agents.

— Sun Tzu