(162 quotes found)
“Lose yourself in generous service and every day can be a most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day!”
William Arthur Ward
“For the American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity”
Will Rogers
“Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious.”
Chuang Tzu
“What peace, what love, what truth, what beauty, what happiness for all, what generous kindness for you and me, are here spread out!”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy - "Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide."”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“You can't be consistently fair, consistently generous, consistently just, or consistently merciful. You can be anything erratically, but to be that thing time after time after time, you have to have courage.”
Maya Angelou
“I can remember way back when a liberal was generous with his own money”
“A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.”
Cyrano De Bergerac
“Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5, 000 Gideon Bibles.”
Zsa Zsa Gabor
“When I get a very generous introduction like that I explain that I'm emotionally moved, but on the other hand I'm Irish and the Irish are very emotionally moved. (Laughter.) My mother is Irish and she cries during beer commercials.”
Barry McCaffrey