Bob Crosby Quotes

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.

Anytime you see a bit where some stranger does something to me, it's me.

I don't feel like taking anybody's money.

I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there were 42 names. The total amount of money they needed was $27. I was shocked.

People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.

It's nice to have money, but the first thing I did with money was buy my father a snow-blower, because my job was to shovel snow, and I wasn't there to do it any more, so I was able to buy him a blower.

When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.

No one would have remembered the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions. He had money as well.

When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

To a gratefull man give mony when he askes.

Sometimes give your services for nothing.

A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly gratifying.

It is at times such as this that we show our true spirit of giving and of brotherhood - of revealing the good Samaritan in all of us.

Even if I’d been wide awake, I knew Dimitri would’ve taken my suitcase anyway. That’s how he was, a lost remnant of chivalry in the modern world, ever-ready to help others.

Cash is cold comfort under these circumstances. But make no mistake about it; It is some comfort.

Take what you can do and use it for the highest good to benefit others.

Money is a symbol of that life force, of its appreciation. Money can be a solidified form of love. Through the transfer of money, we facilitate love and communication with other humans. It offers us a simple system of providing for and loving and nurturing ourselves, and it is one way of expressing generosity and kindness for the less fortunate.

We must not only give what we have, we must give what we are.

If someone asked you, why not help him out?

Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Happiness is like a kiss, in order to get any good out of it, you have to give it to someone else.

I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them.

You should never do something kind in hopes of recognition. Do it because its right. Do it because it makes you feel good.

It was like a life-line to a sinking man. It seemed to bring hope where there was none. The generosity of it was beyond our belief.

Study how to do the most good and let the pay take care of itself.