Quote by Jack London
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. – Jack London

Other quotes by Jack London

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. – Jack London

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Carpe Diem
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. – Jack London

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Time
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Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear? – Jack London

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Time
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Helping
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There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself. – Andrew Carnegie

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Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee, and do not try to make the universe a blind alley. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Helping

If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. – Arabian Proverb

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Helping

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. – Khalil Gibran

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Helping

Random Quotes

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy. – Mason Cooley

Category:
Failure

I like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility, and what happens on the other side of the black hole. To me its the microcosmic study of the macrocosmic universe in man, and thats why Im attracted to it. – Wesley Snipes

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Science

Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature – unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause. – William Henry Beveridge

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Unemployment

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. – Henry David Thoreau

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Birds