Famous Quotes & Sayings

W. Somerset Maugham

There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation.

W. Somerset Maugham

Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness.

W. Somerset Maugham

Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists.

W. Somerset Maugham

When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.

William P. Young

...if anything matters then everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is important. Every time you forgive, the universe changes; every time you reach out and touch a heart or a life, the world changes; with every kindness and service, seen or unseen, my purposes are accomplished and nothing will be the same again.

William Penn

I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.

William Penn

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out of his pocket and planted it, so deal with your compliments through life. An acorn costs nothing, but it may spread into a prodigious timber.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

William Makepeace Thackeray

Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with proud stomachs.

William Makepeace Thackeray

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

Yehuda Amichai

Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

All values in this world are more or less questionable, but the most important thing in life is human kindness.

Yelawolf

I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.

Zig Ziglar

There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile.