Charity Quotes

"The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him."
-Voltaire

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds."
-Abraham Lincoln

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, ...let us strive on to finish the work we are in, ...to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."
-Abraham Lincoln

"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

"In charity there is no excess."
-Sir Francis Bacon

"Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity."
-Albert Camus

"Charity sees the need not the cause."
-German Proverb

"The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity."
-Francis Maitland Balfour

"The living need charity more than the dead."
-George Arnold

"The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation."
-William Hutton

"Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous."
-Sir Thomas Browne

"In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. ."
-Alexander The Great

"Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all."
-Richard Baxter

"Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one's own."
-Moss Hart

"Charity begins at home."
-Terence

"Our charity begins at home, And mostly ends where it begins."
-Horace Smith

"True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense."
-Emanuel Swedenborg

"All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love."
-Evelyn Underhill

"The character of a people may be ruined by charity."
-Theodor Herzl

"Well, the PTA and the football don't count ---- they're charity."
-Linda Miller

"We have some overhead, but most of the money we collect goes to the charity."
-Dan Carter

"I think [the couch] is being auctioned off for some charity. Anyway, let's say that; it sounds good."
-Ben Karlin

"We would ask for more support from charity groups and society."
-Li Liguo

"Sadly, it's another case of a rich man manipulating charity for his own benefit."
-Marcus Owens

"Charity is no substitute for justice withheld."
-St. Augustine

"Sir Bob raised a lot of money for charity and for Africa and that's not to be sneered at."
-Adam Gollner

"It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world."
-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"But we were able to eventually get through that and pay back what we lost, and we got our money for charity back on the upswing again."
-Bill Wheeler