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Quotes About Generosity

Good-humor is allied to generosity, ill-humor to meanness.
~ Sir Fulke Greville
Generosity, to be perfect, should always be accompanied by a dash of humor.
~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.
~ Samuel Johnson
Frank once slipped something into the pocket of a luggage handler at the airport and said: "Have a drink on me." The luggage handler later found out it was a tea bag.
~ Frank Carson
I have always tried to use humor to "help ever" and "hurt never," for I find that to laugh is like swallowing a secret that Santa Claus farted.
~ David Cross
I find Donald Trump to be very kind and generous. I find him to have a great sense of humor.
~ Kellyanne Conway
Don't spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead. They'll clean it and put it on a hanger. Next morning buy it back for seventy-five cents.
~ Billiam Coronel
Presents? We already bought you a lot of things. Member when we were at the market and I bought you gum? You'member.
~ George Lopez
I brug you two [gifts] . . . I gots the little here in my pockie.' He dug one hand deep into his pocket and pulled out a handful of nuts and a dead grasshopper. 'Nope. Be the other side.' (Matt)
~ Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue
Question: What do you get the man who has everything? Answer: a concious. That guy is so greedy.
~ Demitri Martin
Apparently Super Max was pretty content with taking care of half the town, such was his wonderfulness.
~ Kristen Ashley, The Gamble
always serve too much hot fudge sause on the hot fudge sundaes.It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt
~ Judith Olney
...truly loving someone is making that person happy even if you're not the reason behind it.
~ Vinsfortin, The Promise
What do you think of Christmas?""I like it, " she said. "I think we should have it every year.
~ Liz Flaherty, One More Summer
I was young once and slender and pretty and I made the most of it. It's somebody else's turn now.
~ Abigail Thomas
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
~ Henry Ford
Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A cause that only serves me is much like a door on the edge of a cliff, it doesn't open to anywhere good.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.
~ Gautama Buddha
There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
~ Ronald Reagan
The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
~ Robert Baden-Powell
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
~ Booker T. Washington
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
~ Audrey Hepburn
I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
~ Nancy Reagan