Gamaliel Bailey Quotes

Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.

I admire people like Warren Buffett that are donating so much money to charity.

A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

That's why we should respect people: not for how pretty they are, for how useful they are. What would you rather have, a pretty friend or a friend that can help you move? Always a friend that can help you move!

The Grateful Dead were very kind. It was Santa Claus. It did good things. It allowed other people to benefit. The benefits that we played were enormous, and we played free. So you've got a band that loves to play free, and that was a wonderful thing.

I had one idea that never changed in my mind - that you should use your wealth to help people.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

I want to be remembered as the biggest philanthropist in Turkey.

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.

I'm very rich - in friends. I'm too nice a fellow. I give most of my money away.

A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.

I think people like Bill Gates, who have given away enormous sums of money, are shining examples for all of us to follow.

There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and I'm amazed they don't understand what a great pleasure it can be to give.

I'd make Jack Benny look like a philanthropist.

Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'

Giving is true having.