Charity Quote by Norm MacDonald

Charity, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Next to putting it in a bank, men like to squander their superfluous wealth on those to whom…

— William Hazlitt

Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the…

— Carson McCullers

Aside from higher considerations, charity often operates as a vastly wise and prudent principle-a great safeguard to its possessor. Men have committed murder for…

— Herman Melville

The generous man enriches himself by giving; the miser hoards himself poor

— Dutch Proverb

There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that…

— William Booth

Generosity is the vanity of giving.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The reputation of generosity is to be purchased pretty cheap; it does not depend so much upon a man's general expense, as it does…

— Doug Stanhope

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature

— George Orwell

Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.

— Irving Stone

Honest men live on charity in their age; the almshouses are full of men who never stole a copper penny. Honest men are the…

— Taylor Caldwell

Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche