A couple of seats at a good picture house cost comparatively little but give a generous return in the shape of freshened minds and freedom from the worries that even the best regulated homes cannot always avoid.
Ivor Novello

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.
Charles W. Pickering

A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.
Cyrano de Bergerac

A rich man can afford to be generous to many.
Mercedes McCambridge

Actors are very generous.
Blythe Danner

After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.
Pierre Corneille

After September 11th, nations from across the globe offered their generous assistance to the people of New York. And whenever our friends around the world need our assistance, New York is there.
George E. Pataki

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
Thomas Hobbes

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.
Anna Jameson

Although many seniors are happy with the generous drug coverage they have from their former employers, the number of companies offering that kind of coverage has decreased by one-third since the mid-1980s.
Jim Gerlach

American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.
Elinor Glyn

Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.
Adam Schiff

Americans are the most generous country on the planet. I've worked in Europe, I've worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you.
Hugh Jackman

At age 12, I was put on tranquilizers when I should have gotten help. There was nothing major and awful, I just didn't feel my family was supportive and emotionally generous.
Paula Danziger

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
William E. Gladstone

Be just before you are generous.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
Beatrice Wood

But they are not going to take on Big Oil because Big Oil is very generous at campaign time, and this is all about the elections. They want to pretend that they are doing something meaningful.
Peter DeFazio

But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?
Francis Wright