| Author |
Quotes |
| Bible | I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive. |
| Bible | Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? |
| Bible | A gift blinds the wise and perverts the words of the righteous. |
| Charles Lamb | 'Presents,' I often say, 'endear absents.' |
| Edmund Vance Cooke | It is not the weight of jewel or plate, Or the fondle of silk or fur; "Tis the spirit in which the gift is rich, As the gifts of the Wise Ones were, And we are not told whose gift was gold, Or whose was the gift of myrrh. |
| Ephraim Gotthold Lessing | For the will and not the gift makes the giver. |
| Euripides | It is said that gifts persuade even the gods. |
| Evelyn Waugh | He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. |
| Homer | Rare gift! but oh, what gift to fools avails! |
| Horatius Flaccus | Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom. |
| James Russell Lowell | Not what we give, but what we share,-- For the gift without the giver is bare. |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Presents at once? That's good. He is sure to succeed. |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms. |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | For to give is the business of the rich. |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | I make presents to the mother, but think of the daughter. |
| Marcus Valerius Martialndex | Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return. |
| Marian Anderson | Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend. |
| Saint Jerome | Never look a gift horse in the mouth. |
| Sandi | To receive gifts is to lose freedom. |
| Sherry Hochman | Every day is a gift- even if it sucks. |
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