Here quench your thirst, and mark in me
An emblem of true charity;
Who, while my bounty I bestow.
Am neither seen, nor heard to flow. [ Hone ]
Reason and virtue alone can bestow liberty. [ Shaftesbury ]
Know from the bounteous heavens all riches flow;
And what man gives, the gods by man bestow. [ Homer ]
It is reason and virtue alone that can bestow liberty. [ Shaftesbury ]
Men bestow compliments only on women who deserve none. [ Mme. Bachi ]
Passion costs too much to bestow it upon every trifle. [ Rev. Thomas Adam ]
Bestow on me what you will, so it be none of your secrets. [ Proverb ]
Women bestow on friendship only what they borrow from love. [ Chamfort ]
The king may bestow offices, but cannot bestow wit to manage them. [ Proverb ]
Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow. [ Pope ]
He who knows not how to bestow a benefit is unreasonable if he expects one. [ Publius Syrus ]
I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow. [ Washington Irving ]
A coquette is more occupied with the homage we refuse her, than with that we bestow upon her. [ A. Dupuy ]
Those who bestow too much application on trifling things become generally incapable of great ones. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness. [ Lady Blessington ]
We can receive anything from love, for that is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Simple gratitude, untinctured with love, is all the return an ingenuous mind can bestow for former benefits. Love for love is all the reward we expect or desire. [ Goldsmith ]
Extremes touch: he who wants no favors from Fortune may be said to have obtained the very greatest that she can bestow, in realizing an independence which no changes can diminish. [ Chatfield ]
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow. [ Emerson ]
It is more reasonable to wish for reputation while it may be enjoyed, as Anacreon calls upon his companions to give him for present use the wine and garlands which they propose to bestow upon his tomb. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Friendship is one of the greatest boons God can bestow on man. It is a union of our finest feelings; an uninteresting binding of hearts, and a sympathy between two souls. It is an indefinable trust we repose in one another, a constant communication between two minds, and an unremitting anxiety for each other's souls. [ J. Hill ]
Those who start for human glory, like the mettled hounds of Actaeon, must pursue the game not only where there is a path, but where there is none. They must be able to simulate and dissimulate; to leap and to creep; to conquer the earth like Caesar, or to fall down and kiss it like Brutus; to throw their sword like Brennus into the trembling scale, or, like Nelson, to snatch the laurels from the doubtful hand of Victory, while she is hesitating where to bestow them. [ Colton ]
Among the smaller duties of life, I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due. Reputation is one of the prizes for which men contend: it is, as Mr. Burke calls it, the cheap defense and ornament of nations.
It produces more labor and more talent than twice the wealth of a country could ever rear up. It is the coin of genius, and it is the imperious duty of every man to bestow it with the most scrupulous justice and the wisest economy. [ Sydney Smith ]