Alms Quote by Maxim Gorky

Even a poor man doesn't ask alms unless he sees you have the ability to give.

— Piyush Goyal

In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and…

— Aristotle

Any man who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master…

— Epicurus

To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.

— Edmund Burke

Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me.

— James Russell Lowell

'Alms in secret extinguish the wrath of the Lord' means you are so immersed in sincerity and in preserving that sincerity that you have…

— Shams Tabrizi

I couldn't regard myself as personally repulsive. No man can, or, if he ever comes to do so, that is the end of him.

— Ford Madox Ford

All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.

— Sophocles

Almsgiving above all else requires money, but even this shines with a brighter luster when the alms are given from our poverty. The widow…

— Saint John Chrysostom

Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavoury as gross sensuality.

— Carl Jung

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either.…

— Hector Hugh Munro

Man is vile, I know, but people are wonderful.

— Peter De Vries