Tuesday’s HOME-Spun Wisdom

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The world is being asked to give money for the victims of the flooding in Asia and Africa. See comments about giving from humanitarian Albert Schweitzer and others.
Tuesday’s HOME-Spun Wisdom

RISMEDIA, Jan. 4 ? The world is being asked to give money for the victims of the flooding in Asia and Africa. See comments about giving from humanitarian Albert Schweitzer and others.

“You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it’s a little thing, do something for others – something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.”

- Albert Schweitzer

“The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.”

- Baltasar Gracian

“The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.”

- Charles Dudley Warner

“A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.”

- Eleanor Hamilton

“One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.”

- George Eliot

“Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.”

- John Wesley

“Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.”

- Kahlil Gibran

“You try to give away what you want yourself.”

- Lois McMaster Bujold

“If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.”

- Norman Douglas

“What a child doesn’t receive he can seldom later give.”

- P. D. James

“He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.”

- Publilius Syrus

“We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.”

- Sir Winston Churchill

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