Munificent Quotes

#1. If one isn't parsimonious before Christmas one can't be munificent when it arrives.

Grace S. Richmond

#2. Munificent nature follows the methods of the divine and true, and rounds all things to her perfect law. While nations are convulsed with blood and violence, how quietly the grass grows.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#3. Paradox is beloved of novelists. The despised savior, the humane whore, the selfish man suddenly munificent, the wise fool, and the cowardly hero. Most writers spend their lives writing about unexpected malice in the supposedly virtuous, and unexpected virtue in the supposedly sinful.

Thomas Keneally

#4. He was munificent and liberal to outsiders, but a plunderer of his people, trusting strangers rather than his subjects. . . . [H]e was eventually deserted by his own men and in the end, little mourned.

Dan Jones

#5. Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie.

Max Beerbohm

#6. The image of the reporter as a nicotine-stained Quixote, slugging back Scotch while skewering city hall with an expose ripped out of a typewriter on the crack of deadline, persists despite munificent evidence to the contrary.

Paul Gray

#7. If riches increase, let thy mind hold pace with them; and think it not enough to be liberal, but munificent.

Thomas Browne

#8. Newspapers ... give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details ...

Oscar Wilde

#9. Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it.

Meg Whitman

#10. What you cannot enforce, do not command!

Sophocles

#11. Rock stars against drugs
that's what we want, isn't it? Government-approved rock-n-roll? Woo! We're partying now!

Bill Hicks

#12. I love to kind of people watch; that's part of what I do as an actor and creative person and sort of step back and watch others.

Kate Walsh

#13. Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

Thomas Merton

#14. It was in a stonecutter's house where I went to have a headstone made for Raftery's grave that I found a manuscript book of his poems, written out in the clear beautiful Irish characters.

Lady Gregory

#15. Only mountains can feel the frozen warmth of the sun through snow's gentle caress on their peaks

Munia Khan

#16. Sometimes it's nice to have a man around the house. But a dog will clean the dishes.

Lois Greiman

#17. True joy does not discount real suffering; it shines all the greater in the midst of it.

Melissa B. Kruger