A Quote by Jean de la Bruyere
Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
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Xenial' is a word which refers to the giving of gifts to strangers. . . . I know that having a good vocabulary doesn't guarantee that I'm a good person. . . . But it does mean I've read a great deal. And in my experience, well-read people are less likely to be evil.
What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.
That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.
We know that the gifts which men have do not come from the schools. If a man is a plain, literal, factual man, you can make a great deal more of him in his own line by education than without education, just as you can make a great deal more of a potato if you cultivate it than if you do not; but no cultivation in this world will ever make an apple out of a potato.
Liberality is not giving much, but giving wisely.
the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author's skill in well dressing it up.
I'm Jewish, so I don't really do Christmas gifts, and Hanukkah is not as big a deal as gifts are concerned, so I never actually give gifts.
The great charm of conversation consists less in the display of one's own wit and intelligence than in the power to draw forth the resources of others.
The well-timed question is more impacting than an answer.
We want to make sure that women have a way to use all their gifts in society, to get educated, to be all they can be in the workforce, to really develop as people in all the ways that they can. We want this for men too! And we want this for children. Well this can't happen if this can be sandbagged by an ill-timed and unwanted pregnancy.
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
Some smashes have been timed at more than 250 mph, so you get less than a second to react. People who see a professional badminton match up close are always shocked at the speed.
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment.
What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.
It may well be a sign of the decadence of the Church and the failure of Christianity that gifts have to be coaxed out of people, and that often they will not give at all unless they get something for their money in the way of entertainment or of goods. Giving which is real giving has a certain recklessness in it.
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