Quotes of: Alms Keyword

Leper 1: Alms for a leper! Leper 2: Alms for a leper! Ex-Leper: Alms for an ex-leper!

Life of Brian

Alms never make poor.

English

No one became poor by giving alms.

French

Giving alms never lessens the purse.

Spanish

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.

Ben Hecht

Alms given openly will be rewarded in secret.

Chinese

He who gives alms to the poor faces heaven.

Philippine

To explain the matter I will employ a simile, which yet, I confess is very dissimilar; but its dissimilitude is greatly in favour of my sentiments. A rich man bestows, on a poor and famishing beggar, alms by which he may be able to maintain himself a...

The Works of James Arminius, Volume 2

A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.

Islamic

He who asks for alms blushes once; he who refuses, twice.

Turkish

A beggar himself, can he afford to have one asking for alms at his door?

Indian

The poor ones give their alms in a humble way, the rich man throws them down with contempt.

Chinese

The gardner had not yet dug out the radish, when the beggar held the alms-bowl in front of him.

Kashmiri

Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passio...

Buddha

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

John Ruskin

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.

Lord Acton

[Judah, Esther, Miriam and Tirzah enter the city to find it deserted except for a blind beggar] Judah Ben-Hur: [to Blind Man] Why are the streets deserted? Blind Man: They have gone to the trial. Alms for the blind? Judah Ben-Hur: Trial? Whose trial?...

Ben-Hur

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms.

Robert Grosseteste

So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Oh, I envy you!" he cried. "You are still nourished by yesterday's alms, but yesterday's happiness no longer nourishes me.

Elective Affinities