Definition of alms

"alms" in the noun sense

1. alms

money or goods contributed to the poor

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Quotations for alms

Alms never make poor. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that preacheth giveth alms. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

See how they beg an alms of flattery! [ Young ]

To steal the hog and give the feet for alms. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Let thy alms go before, and keep heaven's gate
Open for thee, or both may come too late. [ George Herbert ]

Even bees, the little alms-men of spring bowers,
Know there is richest juice in poison-flowers. [ Keats ]

He steals a hog, and gives away the feet in alms. [ Proverb ]

A friar who asks alms for God's sake begs for two. [ Calderon ]

Or thus, great alms-giving lessens no man's living. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that blows a trumpet at his alms is' a Pharisee. [ Proverb ]

O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words. [ William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act V. Sc.1 ]

He swallows the egg and gives away the shell in alms. [ German Proverb ]

Alms are the golden key that opens the gate of Heaven. [ Proverb ]

They have been at a great feast of language, and stolen the scraps.
They have lived long in the alms-basket of words! [ William Shakespeare ]

Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue. [ Addison ]

A woman's friendship is, as a rule, the legacy of love or the alms of indifference.

The Golden Rule Of Three.

Three things to be - pure, just and honest.
Three things to govern - temper, tongue and conduct.
Three things to live - courage, affection and gentleness.
Three things to love - the wise, the virtuous and the innocent.
Three things to commend - thrift, industry and promptness.
Three things about which to think - life, death and eternity.
Three things to despise - cruelty, arrogance and ingratitude.
Three things to admire - dignity, gracefulness and intellectual power.
Three things to cherish - the true, the beautiful and the good.
Three things for which to wish - health, friends and contentment.
Three things for which to fight - honor, home and country.
Three things to attain - goodness of heart, integrity of purpose and cheerfulness of disposition.
Three things to give - alms to the needy, comfort to the sad and appreciation to the worthy.
Three things to desire - the blessing of God, an approving conscience and the fellowship of the good.
Three things for which to work - a trained mind, a skilled hand and a regulated heart.
Three things for which to hope - a haven of peace, a robe of righteousness and the crown of life. [ Beattie ]

Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms. [ Beveridge ]

If you could throw as an alms to those who would use it well the time that you fritter away, how many beggars would become rich! [ Elizabeth, Queen of Roumania ]

I was walking in the street, a beggar stopped me, — a frail old man. His inflamed, tearful eyes, blue lips, rough rags, disgusting sores . . . oh, how horribly poverty had disfigured the unhappy creature! He stretched out to me his red, swollen, filthy hand. He groaned and whimpered for alms. I felt in all my pockets. No purse, watch, or handkerchief did I find. I had left them all at home. The beggar waited and his out-stretched hand twitched and trembled slightly. Embarrassed and confused, I seized his dirty hand and pressed it. Don't be vexed with me, brother; I have nothing with me, brother. The beggar raised his bloodshot eyes to mine; his blue lips smiled, and he returned the pressure of my chilled fingers. Never mind, brother, stammered he; thank you for this — this, too, was a gift, brother. I felt that I, too, had received a gift from my brother. [ Ivan Tourgueneff ]

alms in Scrabble®

The word alms is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters alms:

SLAM
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The 110 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In alms

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alms in Words With Friends™

The word alms is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters alms:

SLAM
(48)
 

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Words containing the sequence alms

Words that start with alms (5 words)

Words with alms in them (1 word)

Word Growth involving alms

Shorter words in alms

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Longer words containing alms

almsgiver almsgivers

almshouse almshouses

balms beebalms

balms embalms

balms lemonbalms

calms encalms

palms napalms

psalms

qualms

realms

yealms