Quotes about benefactors

With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

— Joseph Addison

Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, to express their regret, will go and leave a lot of money to the very people who will be the first to throw stones at the next person who has anything to say and finds a difficulty in getting a hearing.

— Samuel Butler

In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

— George Bernard Shaw

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

— Alfred E. Smith