Toggle navigation
Collections
Fun
Jokes
Fortune
Photo
Nicknames
Blog
ﻮﺑﻻگ
Iran
Charity Is Twice Cursed--it Hardens Him That Gives And Softens Him That Takes.
Home
›
Fortune Cookies
›
Quotations - Alphabetic
Charity is twice cursed--it hardens him that gives and softens him that takes.
-- Bouck White (1874-1951) "quoted in "The Cry for Justice" by Sinclair
Related:
The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath
it is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes: -- William Shakespeare...
The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath.
It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes....
Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of the pleasure
costs nothing and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and him who receives, and thus, like mercy, it is twice blessed....
The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears.
The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt....
Capture him, beat him and treat him like dirt.
-- LAPD squad-car computer message, as quoted in the Christopher Report, 7/91...
INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity.
"All men are ingrates," sneered the cynic. "Nay," The good philanthropist replied...
Some months ago I saw a man breaking a loaf of whole-wheat bread and tossing the pieces at pigeons.
I was curious and I asked him, "Why whole-wheat bread?...
How many SAS programmers -- does it take to change a light bulb?
How many? It depends : - If they are applications programmers, it takes exactly twice as many as are currently available....
Let him who takes the plunge remember to return it by Tuesday.