Gifts break a rock. [ Proverb ]
Gifts make beggars bold. [ Proverb ]
Giving requires good sense. [ Ovid ]
Music is one of God's gifts. [ Al-Misri ]
Great gifts are for great men. [ Proverb ]
Favour and gifts disturb justice. [ Danish Proverb ]
He gives twice who gives quickly. [ Syrus ]
Gifts from enemies are dangerous. [ Proverb ]
There's a proud modesty in merit!
Averse from asking, and resolved to pay
Ten times the gifts it asks. [ Dryden ]
Gifts enter everywhere without a wimble. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
For to give is the business of the rich. [ Goethe ]
We like the gift when we the giver prize. [ Sheffield ]
When you give, give with joy and smiling. [ Joubert ]
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]
To the noble mind
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]
Fancy sets the value on the gifts of fortune. [ Rochefoucauld ]
For the will and not the gift makes the giver. [ Lessing ]
Since all the riches of this world
May be gifts from the devil and earthly kings.
I should suspect that I worshipped the devil
If I thanked my God for worldly things. [ Wm. Blake ]
Wisdom's path is steep; but, gained the height,
The Muse's gifts will fill you with delight. [ Onestes ]
He that gives me small gifts would have me live. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
For whatever man has, is in reality only a gift. [ Wieland ]
God hands gifts to some, whispers them to others. [ W. R. Alger ]
Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms. [ Goethe ]
The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore -
A shore that wears on her alluring brows
Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea
That blushed a tell-tale. [ Alexander Smith ]
Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle. [ Lavater ]
Riches, understanding, beauty, are fair gifts of God. [ Luther ]
The more we give to others, the more we are increased. [ Lao-Tze ]
The gift derives its value from the rank of the giver. [ Ovid ]
Timely service, like timely gifts, is doubled in value. [ George MacDonald ]
While you look at what is given, look also at the giver. [ Seneca ]
There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. [ Seneca ]
Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people. [ G. S. Hillard ]
Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue. [ Addison ]
Those gifts are ever the most acceptable which the giver makes precious. [ Ovid ]
It is one of heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in ones arms. [ Goethe ]
Great men or men of great gifts you will easily find, but symmetrical men never. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The manner of giving shows the character of the giver more than the gift itself. [ Lavater ]
A mother's tenderness and a father's care are nature's gifts for man's advantage. [ L. Murray ]
Purchase no friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love. [ T. Fuller ]
Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book. [ Amos Bronson Alcott ]
Receive the gifts of fortune without pride, and part with them without reluctance. [ Antoninus ]
The gifts of genius are far greater than the givers themselves venture to suppose. [ Moses Harvey ]
Memory is the golden thread linking all the mental gifts and excellencies together. [ E. P. Hood ]
That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty. [ Seneca ]
I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow. [ Washington Irving ]
He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver. [ Thomas a Kempis ]
Gifts are as gold that adorns the temple; grace is like the temple that sanctifies the gold. [ Burkitt ]
Give freely to him that deserveth well, and asketh nothing: and that is a way of giving to thyself. [ Fuller ]
Men live best upon small means. Nature has provided for all, if they only knew how to use her gifts. [ Claudianus ]
All that is enviable is not bought: love, genius, beauty, are divine gifts that the richest cannot acquire. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]
The god of this world is riches, pleasure and pride, wherewith it abuses all the creatures and gifts of God. [ Luther ]
Genius in poverty is never feared, because Nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another. [ B. R. Haydon ]
Men live best upon a little; Nature has given to all the privilege of being happy, if they but knew how to use their gifts. [ Claudianus ]
Of all the gifts that Nature can give us, the faculty of remaining silent, or of answering a propos, is perhaps the most useful. [ Mme. Campan ]
It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry. [ Hosea Ballou ]
Without memory the judgment must be unemployed, and ignorance must be the consequence. Pliny says it is one of the greatest gifts of nature. [ Montaigne ]
The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others. [ John Ruskin ]
Two gifts are indispensable to the dramatic poet; one is the power of forgetting himself, the other is the power of remembering his characters. [ Stoddart ]
Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare. [ Coleridge ]
Men of humour are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare. [ Coleridge ]
Praise is the best auxiliary to prayer; and he who most bears in mind what has been done for him by God will be most emboldened to supplicate fresh gifts from above. [ Henry Melvill ]
Youth is like those verdant forests tormented by winds: it agitates on every side the abundant gifts of nature, and some profound murmur always reigns in its foliage. [ M. de Guerin ]
Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy; for it removes from the heart the weight of sorrow, and the fascination of evil thoughts. [ Luther ]
Death alone of the gods loves not gifts, nor do you need to offer incense or libations; he cares not for altar nor hymn; the goddess of Persuasion alone of the gods has no power over him. [ Horace ]
Heaven must scorn the humility which we telegraph thither by genuflection; it must prefer the manliness that stands by all created gifts, and looks itself in the face without pretense of worship. [ John Weiss ]
Great people and champions are special gifts of God, whom He gives and preserves; they do their work and achieve great actions, not with vain imaginations or cold and sleepy cogitations, but by motion of God. [ Luther ]
Humour has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. He who wants it, be his other gifts what they may, has only half a mind; an eye for what is above him, not for what is about him or below him. [ Carlyle ]
Gifts of rings by lovers have always been common; but how pleasant when the husband can look to the past, to the present, to the future, with feelings of love, honor, and duty, and not as is often the case with repentance. [ Miss L. E. Landon ]
Music is God's best gift to man, the only art of heaven given to earth, the only art of earth that we take to heaven. But music, like all our gifts, is given us in the germ. It is for us to unfold and develop it by instruction and cultivation. [ Charles W. Landon ]
We proudly say we are equal. In the largest sense before God we are, but in every other sense we are not. No two persons have the same gifts, the same tastes, the same habits. One must complement the other. It is a mutual life we lead in a mutual world. [ Caroline Hazard ]
Liberty is one of the choicest gifts that heaven hath bestowed upon man, and exceeds in value all the treasures which the earth contains within its bosom, or the sea covers. Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable. [ Cervantes ]
Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as golden gifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when she presents opportunities, and uplifts him whom she would inform. The apple that she drops at the feet of Newton is but a coy invitation to follow her to the stars. [ Whipple ]
Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed upon man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and on the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man. [ Cervantes ]
Praise consists in the love of God, in wonder at the goodness of God, in recognition of the gifts of God, in seeing God in all things He gives us, ay, and even in the things that He refuses to us; so as to see our whole life in the light of God; and seeing this, to bless Him, adore Him, and glorify Him. [ Manning ]
Was man made to disdain the gifts of nature? Was he placed on earth but to gather bitter fruits? For whom are the flowers the gods cause to bloom at the feet of mortals? It pleases Providence when we abandon ourselves to the different inclinations that He has given us: our duties come from His laws, and our desires from His inspirations.
The fact is, that of all God's gifts to the sight of man, color is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn, We speak rashly of gay color and sad color, for color cannot at once be good and gay. All good color is in some degree pensive, the loveliest is melancholy, and the purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most. [ Thomas Starr King ]
There is a story of some mountains of salt in Cumana, which never diminished, though carried away in much abundance by merchants; but when once they were monopolized to the benefit of a private purse, then the salt decreased, till afterward all were allowed to take of it, when it had a new access and increase. The truth of this story may be uncertain, but the application is true; he that envies others the use of his gifts decays then, but he thrives most that is most diffusive. [ Spencer ]
What is more pleasing than the sight of the affectionate mother, watching with untiring devotion over her helpless child? Who can contemplate her devotion to the object of her love, enduring his waywardness, forgiving his faults, relieving his pains, and enjojdng his pleasures; pouring incessantly into his opening soul the mature wisdom of her counsels, and following him with her untiring prayers, as he finally goes forth to battle with the temptations and trials of life, without feeling that the true mother's heart is the noblest of heaven's gifts? [ H. Winslow ]