“It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.”
Seneca
“The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.”
Thomas S. Szasz
“There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.”
William Hazlitt
“Therefore wait patiently for the command of your Lord, and obey not from among them a sinner or an ungrateful one.”
quran
“This We requited them with because they disbelieved; and We do not punish any but the ungrateful.”
“We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“No more thy pains for others' welfare spend, Nor think by service to attach a friend: All are ungrateful - love goes slighted still - Nor merely so, but is repaid by ill; Witness myself, house bitterest foe is he, Who never had a friend on earth bu”
Catullus
