Amount

Famous quotes containing the word amount:

“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscriptions to soup-societies. It is only low merits that can be enumerated.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)