Charity

If begging should unfortunately be thy lot, knock at the large gates only. – Arabic Proverb

Sow much, reap much; sow little, reap little. – Chinese Proverb

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses. – Proverb

The charitable give out the door and God puts it back through the window. – Proverb

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me. – Joseph Addison

With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts. – Joseph Addison

The trick is to realize that after giving your best, theres nothing more to give. – Sparky Anderson

The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live. – Ethel Percy Andrus

The living need charity more than the dead. – George Arnold

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. – Arthur Ashe

Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving? – Francis Atterbury

In charity there is no excess. – Francis Bacon

It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be. – James Baldwin

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving. – Mary Catherine Bateson

Nature does not give to those who will not spend… – R.J. Baughan

There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave. – Henry Ward Beecher

Getters dont get — givers get. – Eugene Benge

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock. – Walter Benjamin

All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate. – Walter Benjamin

God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they dont know it. – Georges Bernanos