Benefit

Famous quotes containing the word benefit:

“When one family builds a wall, two families benefit from it.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Often they benefit who suffer wrong.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

“There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)