Famous Quotes & Sayings

Plato

The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

Jane Fonda

I was a chameleon, the woman men wanted me to be.

Raquel Cassidy

I went to see 'Men In Black 2.' It was just a commodity, just money being shifted.

William Wilberforce

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.

William Wilberforce

Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.

Abbott L. Lowell

There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.

Abbott L. Lowell

All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.

Antoni Gaudi

The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God

Lord Shaftesbury

Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man.

quran

There is no good in most of their secret counsels except (in his) who enjoins charity or goodness or reconciliation between people; and whoever does this seeking Allah's pleasure, We will give him a mighty reward.

Rig Veda

Humans should do charity and do service to others.

Don Smithburg

Our morgue at Big Charity is full and it is under water.

Rhett Warrener

I'll give it to charity. I'm not sure which one but I'm sure I'll find one. I just wish I'd have registered my wife for it. I didn't get that done in time.

Michael Ignatieff

I had no inkling of how crazy the political life would turn out to be. You shuttle between your constituency and Ottawa, you try to make every barbecue, festival, parade and charity run, but sometimes you feel pulled in 14 directions at once.

Eli Segal

This is not about charity. This is not about corporate responsibility. This is a smart solution for businesses.

Bhagavad Gita

The food preferred by all is also of three types. So are the sacrifice, austerity, and charity.

James Cook

Private charity discourages poverty while public subsidies encourage it.

Joe Sakic

It's my charity tournament, we're helping to feed hungry kids so that takes precedent over everything.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.

Diogenes

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

Daniel Defoe

Pleasure is a thief to business.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things.

Pablo Casals

Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

There were moments when I hated everybody I came across, innocent or guilty, and looked at them as thieves who were robbing me of my life with impunity. The most unbearable misfortune is when you yourself become unjust, malignant, vile; you realize it, you even reproach yourself - but you just can't help it.

Jean Cocteau

We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.

Jean Genet

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.

Horace

It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.