Quotes on Benefactors
I love my fellow creatures — I do all the good I can — Yet everybody says I’m such a disagreeable man!
W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911) English librettist
Take Egotism out, and you would castrate the benefactors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)American essayist, poet, philosopher
We do not love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Russian novelist, philosopher
He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.
Confucius (551-478 BO Chinese sage
And learn the luxury of doing good.
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)
Anglo-Irish author Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
Governor Al Smith (1873-1944) American Democratic politician