Quotations on Charity

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.

~ Elbert Hubbard

If you give money, spend yourself with it.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

~ George Eliot

They take the paper and they read the headlines,
So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of breadlines,
And they philanthropically cure them all
By getting up a costume charity ball.

~ Ogden Nash

Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

~ Victor Hugo

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.

~ Samuel Johnson

Charity sees the need, not the cause.

~ Proverbs

- German Proverb

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

~ Bob Hope

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

~ Erich Fromm