Generosity Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Generosity quotes, Generosity sayings, and Generosity proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.


A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.      -- unknown
A true friend is the best Possession.      -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Better a thousand enemies outside the tent than one within it.      -- Arabic (on friends and foes)
Better one true friend than a hundred relatives.      -- Italian (on friendship)
Friends are God's way of taking care of us.      -- nknown
Friendship increases by visiting friends but visiting seldom.      -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.      -- Mencius (c.371-289)
Hold a true friend with both your hands.      -- Nigerian Proverb
Keep your friends close, your enemies even closer.      -- Sun Tzu
Keep your friendships in repair.      -- Samuel Butler (1612-1680)
Little friends may prove great friends.      -- Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
Make a friend when you don't need one.      -- Jamaican (on friendship)
Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.      -- Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
No better relation than a prudent and faithful friend.      -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
One enemy is too many and a hundred friends too few.      -- unknown
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.      -- unknown
The best mirror is an old friend.      -- George Herbert (1593-1632)
The road to a friend's house is never long.      -- Danish Proverb
The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.      -- Ben Franklin, thanks to Carl McFarland
The wolf and the dog agree, at the expense of the goat which together they eat.      -- Basque (on friends and foes)
When I eat your bread, I sing your song.      -- German (on friendship)
Who is mighty? He who makes an enemy into a friend.      -- Hebrew (on friends and foes)
You never really know your friends from your enemies until the ice breaks.      -- Eskimo (on friends and foes)