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| "God's bodkin, man, much better: use every man after his desert, and who shall scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity -- the less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty? |
| William Shakespeare |
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| A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success |
| Otto von Bismarck |
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| Being generous, just helping one's relatives and being blameless in one's actions; this is the best good luck. |
| Buddha |
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| Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. |
| Kahlil Gibran |
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| Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do. |
| Kahlil Gibran |
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| I can remember way back when a liberal was generous with his own money |
| Will Rogers |
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| I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches. |
| Colin Powell |
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| Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing, |
| Abraham Maslow |
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| Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing |
| Alexander Pope |
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| O Thou who has given us so much, mercifully grant us one thing more-a grateful heart. |
| George Herbert |
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| One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others. |
| Robert A. Heinlein |
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| Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out. |
| Frank A. Clark |
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