Kindness quotes and words of wisdom

"A cat may looke on a King."
John Heywood


"A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles."
Washington Irving


"A long train of these practices has at length unwillingly convinced me that there is something behind the throne greater than the King himself."
William Pitt, "the Elder Pitt"


"All kings is mostly rapscallions."
Mark Twain


"Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary."
Sir James Matthew Barrie


"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
Plato


"But war "s a game which were their subjects wise Kings would not play at."
William Cowper


"Consciousness reigns but does not govern."
Paul Valiry


"From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken: The crownless again shall be king."
John Ronald Reuel "J. R. R." Tolkien


"George the First was always reckoned Vile, but viler George the Second; And what mortal ever heard Any good of George the Third? When from earth the Fourth descended God be praised, the Georges ended!"
Walter Savage Landor


"He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged."
Benjamin Franklin


"I am, indeed, a king, for I know how to rule myself."
Pietro Aretino


"I have found men more kind than I expected and less just."
Dr. Samuel Johnson


"I have found men more kind than I expected, and less just."
Samuel Johnson


"I value kindness to humans first of all, and kindness to animals. I don"t respect the law; I have total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper, and old men and women warmer in the winter, and happier in the summer."
Brendan Behan


"I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness."
Mother Teresa


"If you can"t be kind, at least be vague."
Judith Martin


"If you"re naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don"t like."
William Feather


"In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."
Desiderius Erasmus


"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known."
Charles Dickens


"It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race."
Lord Alfred Tennyson


"Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. Mental trouble was never known to arise from such quarters. Though they do not cost much yet they accomplish much. They make other people good natured. They also produce their own image on men"s souls, and a beautiful image it is."
Blaise Pascal


"Kind words toward those you daily meet, Kind words and actions right, Will make this life of ours most sweet, Turn darkness into night."
Isaac Watts


"Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it benefits the bestower."
Unknown


"Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together."
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe


"Kindness is the inability to remain at ease in the presence of another person who is ill at ease, the inability to remain comfortable in the presence of another who is uncomfortable, the inability to have peace of mind when one?s neighbor is troubled."
Rabbi Samuel H. Holdenson


"Kings are like stars,?they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose."
Percy Bysshe Shelley


"Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind."
Henri Frédéric Amiel


"Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, Help to make earth happy like the heaven above."
Julia A. Fletcher Carney


"Love Is Like A Flower Little deeds of kindness, Little words of love, Help to make earth happy Like the heaven above."
Julia Fletcher Carney


"MAJESTY, n. The state and title of a king. Regarded with a just contempt by the Most Eminent Grand Masters, Grand Chancellors, Great Incohonees and Imperial Potentates of the ancient and honorable orders of republican America."
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce


"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
Aesop


"Not always actions show the man; we find Who does a kindness is not therefore kind."
Alexander Pope


"One kind word can warm three winter months."
Proverb


"One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness ? it is usually returned."
Cort R. Flint


"Remember there"s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end."
Scott Raymond Adams


"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions."
Kahlil Gibran


"That the king can do no wrong, is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution."
Sir William Blackstone


"The king reigns but does not govern."
Otto von Bismarck


"There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie."
Aeschylus


"There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book."
Saul Bellow


"Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: That I have reigned with your loves."
Queen Elizabeth I


"Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown; that I have reigned with your loves."
Elizabeth I


"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind."
Henry James, Jr.


"True hope is swift, and flies with swallow?s wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings."
William Shakespeare


"When anyone was sick Muhammad used to rub his hands upon the sick person"s body, saying, "O Lord of mankind! Take away this pain, and give health; for Thou art the giver of health: there is no health bu Thine, that health which leaveth no sickness.""
Prophet Muhammad


"When you strike a king, you must kill him."
Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away."
Arthur Helps


"You cannot repent too soon, because you do not know how soon it may be too late."
Thomas Fuller


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