Quotable Quotes (6 page)

—
M
ARGARET
T
HATCHER

Downing Street Years

 

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

—
A
NTISTHENES

 

A friend is someone who makes me feel totally acceptable.

—
E
NE
R
IISNA

 

The best mirror is a friend's eye.

—
G
AELIC PROVERB

 

T
HE BEST HELPING HAND . . .

 

Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push.

—
J
OANN
T
HOMAS

 

What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

—
G
EORGE
E
LIOT

 

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others.

—
A
LBERT
S
CHWEITZER

Memoirs of Childhood and Youth

 

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

—Hebrews 13:2

 

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.

—
C
HARLES
D
ICKENS

 

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.

—
S
ALLY
K
OCH

in
Wisconsin

 

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

—
A
LBERT
S
CHWEITZER

 

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

—
M
OTHER
T
ERESA OF
C
ALCUTTA

 

It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.

—
K
AHLIL
G
IBRAN

The Prophet

 

He who helps early helps twice.

—
T
ADEUSZ
M
AZOWIECKI

 

Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying.

—
M
ERRY
B
ROWNE

in
National Enquirer

 

You may give gifts without caring—but you can't care without giving.

—
F
RANK
A
.
C
LARK

 

Never hesitate to hold out your hand; never hesitate to accept the outstretched hand of another.

—
P
OPE
J
OHN
XXIII

 

It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

—
C
HARLES
D
UDLEY
W
ARNER

 

We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.

—
F
REYA
S
TARK

Perseus in the Wind

 

Basically, the only thing we need is a hand that rests on our own, that wishes it well, that sometimes guides us.

—
H
ECTOR
B
IANCIOTTI

Sans La Misericorde du Christ

 

Extending your hand is extending yourself.

—
R
OD
M
C
K
UEN

Book of Days

 

The miracle is this—the more we share, the more we have.

—
L
EONARD
N
IMOY

 

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

—
A
BRAHAM
L
INCOLN

 

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

—
M
ALCOLM
S
.
F
ORBES

in
Forbes
magazine

 

He is not an honest man who has burned his tongue and does not tell the company that the soup is hot.

—
Y
UGOSLAV PROVERB

 

Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals.

—
G
RETEL
E
HRLICH

 

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

—
J
OHANN
W
OLFGANG VON
G
OETHE

 

Money-giving is a good criterion of a person's mental health. Generous people are rarely mentally ill people.

—
D
R.
K
ARL
M
ENNINGER

 

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

—
H
UBERT
H
.
H
UMPHREY

 

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

—
P
.
J
.
O'R
OURKE

A Parliament of Whores

 

We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

—
M
IGNON
M
C
L
AUGHLIN

 

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.

—
C
HARLES
L
AMB

 

Real charity doesn't care if it's tax-deductible or not.

—
D
AN
B
ENNETT

 

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.

—
F
RANK
A
.
C
LARK

 

Nobody wants constructive criticism. It's all we can do to put up with constructive praise.

—
M
IGNON
M
C
L
AUGHLIN

 

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

—
B
ENJAMIN
D
ISRAELI

 

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless.

—
E
RIC
H
OFFER

 

Deceiving someone for his own good is a responsibility that should be shouldered only by the gods.

—
H
ENRY
S
.
H
ASKINS

 

Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.

—
H
UBERT
H
.
H
UMPHREY

 

We ought to be careful not to do for a fellow what we only intended to help him do.

—
F
RANK
A
.
C
LARK

 

The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.

—
W
ILLIAM
H
.
D
AVIS

 

The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.

—
L
AURENCE
L
EAMER

King of the Night

 

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him and to let him know that you trust him.

—
B
OOKER
T
.
W
ASHINGTON

 

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

—
G
.
K
.
C
HESTERTON

 

No matter what accomplishments you achieve, somebody helps you.

—
A
LTHEA
G
IBSON

 

Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

—
J
AN DE
H
ARTOG

The Lamb's War

 

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

—
M
OTHER
T
ERESA OF
C
ALCUTTA

 

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

—
A
RTHUR
A
SHE

Days of Grace

 

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

—
C
ALVIN
C
OOLIDGE

 

The dead take to the grave, clutched in their hands, only what they have given away.

—
D
E
W
ITT
W
ALLACE

 

The only things we ever keep are what we give away.

—
L
OUIS
G
INSBERG

The Everlasting Minute and Other Lyrics

 

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

—
H
ADA
B
EJAR

 

L
OVE DOESN'T JUST SIT THERE . . .

 

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

—
U
RSULA
K
.
L
E
G
UIN

The Lathe of Heaven

 

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

—
M
ARC
C
HAGALL

Chagall

 

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

—
A
NTOINE DE
S
AINT-
E
XUPÉRY

The Wisdom of the Sands

 

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

—
P
LATO

 

This is the true measure of love: when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

—
J
OHANN
W
OLFGANG VON
G
OETHE

 

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

—
A
NTOINE DE
S
AINT-
E
XUPÉRY

 

In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.

—
L
INDA
E
LLERBEE

Move On: Adventures in the Real World

 

Only discretion allows intimacy, which depends on shared reticence, on what is not said—unsolvable things that would leave the other person ill at ease.

—
H
ECTOR
B
IANCIOTTI

Sans La Misericorde Du Christ

 

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

—
M
ARIE VON
E
BNER-
E
SCHENBACH

 

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

—
W
ILLIAM
S
HAKESPEARE

 

I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I have never had time for tobacco since.

—
A
RTURO
T
OSCANINI

 

All our loves are first loves.

—
S
USAN
F
ROMBERG

Schaeffer, Mainland

 

Two things only a man cannot hide: that he is drunk and that he is in love.

—
A
NTIPHANES

 

Is it not strange that love, so fickle, is ranked above friendship, almost always so worthy?

—
G
ABRIELLE
R
OY

La Detresse et L'enchantement

 

Love is a game that two can play and both win.

—
E
VA
G
ABOR

 

The giving of love is an education in itself.

—
E
LEANOR
R
OOSEVELT

 

We English have sex on the brain, which is not the most satisfactory place for it.