Gifts Allow Us To Demonstrate Exactly How Little We Know About A Person. And Nothing Pisses A Person Off More Than Being Shoved Into The Wrong Pigeonhole.
- Pam Davis
What A Child Doesn’t Receive He Can Seldom Later Give.
- P. D. James
You Must Give Some Time To Your Fellow Men. Even If It’s A Little Thing, Do Something For Others – Something For Which You Get No Pay But The Privilege Of Doing It.
- Albert Schweitzer
Make All You Can, Save All You Can, Give All You Can.
- John Wesley
One Must Be Poor To Know The Luxury Of Giving.
- George Eliot
The Spirit In Which A Thing Is Given Determines That In Which The Debt Is Acknowledged; It’s The Intention, Not The Face-Value Of The Gift, That’s Weighed.
- Seneca
If We Have The Opportunity To Be Generous With Our Hearts, Ourselves, We Have No Idea Of The Depth And Breadth Of Love’s Reach.
- Margaret Cho
There Is No Benefit In The Gifts Of A Bad Man.
- Euripides
Give What You Have. To Someone, It May Be Better Than You Dare To Think.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Purchase Not Friends By Gifts; When Thou Ceasest To Give, Such Will Cease To Love.
- Thomas Fuller
The Great Art Of Giving Consists In This: The Gift Should Cost Very Little And Yet Be Greatly Coveted, So That It May Be The More Highly Appreciated.
- Baltasar Gracian
You Try To Give Away What You Want Yourself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold
He Doubly Benefits The Needy Who Gives Quickly.
- Publilius Syrus
A Gift In Season Is A Double Favor To The Needy.
A Compliment Is A Gift, Not To Be Thrown Away Carelessly, Unless You Want To Hurt The Giver.
- Eleanor Hamilton
The Excellence Of A Gift Lies In Its Appropriateness Rather Than In Its Value.
- Charles Dudley Warner
If You Want To See What Children Can Do, You Must Stop Giving Them Things.
- Norman Douglas
Rich Gifts Wax Poor When Givers Prove Unkind.
- William Shakespeare
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