Definition of gives

"gives" in the noun sense

1. give, spring, springiness

the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length

"gives" in the verb sense

1. give

cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense

"She gave him a black eye"

"The draft gave me a cold"

2. yield, give, afford

be the cause or source of

"He gave me a lot of trouble"

"Our meeting afforded much interesting information"

3. give

transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody

"I gave her my money"

"can you give me lessons?"

"She gave the children lots of love and tender loving care"

4. give

convey or reveal information

"Give one's name"

5. give, pay

convey, as of a compliment, regards, attention, etc. bestow

"Don't pay him any mind"

"give the orders"

"Give him my best regards"

"pay attention"

6. hold, throw, have, make, give

organize or be responsible for

"hold a reception"

"have, throw, or make a party"

"give a course"

7. give, throw

convey or communicate of a smile, a look, a physical gesture

"Throw a glance"

"She gave me a dirty look"

8. give, gift, present

give as a present make a gift of

"What will you give her for her birthday?"

9. give, yield

cause to happen or be responsible for

"His two singles gave the team the victory"

10. give, pay, devote

dedicate

"give thought to"

"give priority to"

"pay attention to"

11. render, yield, return, give, generate

give or supply

"The cow brings in 5 liters of milk"

"This year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn"

"The estate renders some revenue for the family"

12. impart, leave, give, pass on

transmit (knowledge or skills

"give a secret to the Russians"

"leave your name and address here"

"impart a new skill to the students"

13. establish, give

bring about

"The trompe l'oeil-illusion establishes depth"

14. give

leave with give temporarily

"Can I give you my keys while I go in the pool?"

"Can I give you the children for the weekend?"

15. give

emit or utter

"Give a gulp"

"give a yelp"

16. sacrifice, give

endure the loss of

"He gave his life for his children"

"I gave two sons to the war"

17. pass, hand, reach, pass on, turn over, give

place into the hands or custody of

"hand me the spoon, please"

"Turn the files over to me, please"

"He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers"

18. give, dedicate, consecrate, commit, devote

give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause

"She committed herself to the work of God"

"give one's talents to a good cause"

"consecrate your life to the church"

19. give

give (as medicine

"I gave him the drug"

20. give, apply

give or convey physically

"She gave him First Aid"

"I gave him a punch in the nose"

21. give, render

bestow

"give homage"

"render thanks"

22. grant, give

bestow, especially officially

"grant a degree"

"give a divorce"

"This bill grants us new rights"

23. move over, give way, give, ease up, yield

move in order to make room for someone for something

"The park gave way to a supermarket"

"`Move over,' he told the crowd"

24. feed, give

give food to

"Feed the starving children in India"

"don't give the child this tough meat"

25. contribute, give, chip in, kick in

contribute to some cause

"I gave at the office"

26. collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder

break down, literally or metaphorically

"The wall collapsed"

"The business collapsed"

"The dam broke"

"The roof collapsed"

"The wall gave in"

"The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice"

27. give

estimate the duration or outcome of something

"He gave the patient three months to live"

"I gave him a very good chance at success"

28. give

execute and deliver

"Give bond"

29. give

deliver in exchange or recompense

"I'll give you three books for four CDs"

30. afford, open, give

afford access to

"the door opens to the patio"

"The French doors give onto a terrace"

31. give

present to view

"He gave the sign to start"

32. give

perform for an audience

"Pollini is giving another concert in New York"

33. give, yield

be flexible under stress of physical force

"This material doesn't give"

34. give

propose

"He gave the first of many toasts at the birthday party"

35. give

accord by verdict

"give a decision for the plaintiff"

36. give

manifest or show

"This student gives promise of real creativity"

"The office gave evidence of tampering"

37. give

offer in good faith

"He gave her his word"

38. give

submit for consideration, judgment, or use

"give one's opinion"

"give an excuse"

39. give

guide or direct, as by behavior of persuasion

"You gave me to think that you agreed with me"

40. give

allow to have or take

"I give you two minutes to respond"

41. give

inflict as a punishment

"She gave the boy a good spanking"

"The judge gave me 10 years"

42. give

occur

"what gives?"

43. give

consent to engage in sexual intercourse with a man

"She gave herself to many men"

44. give

proffer (a body part

"She gave her hand to her little sister"

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Quotations for gives

He that lends gives. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Silence gives consent. [ Proverb ]

Who gives to all, denies all. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The hand that gives, gathers. [ Eugene Sue ]

Sincerity gives wings to power.

There's mercy in every place,
And mercy, encouraging thought,
Gives even affliction a grace,
And reconciles man to his lot. [ William Cowper ]

Pity often gives birth to love. [ Mme. de Sartory ]

Candour gives wings to strength. [ Motto ]

He gives twice who gives quickly. [ Syrus ]

God gives all things to industry. [ Proverb ]

Kindness gives birth to kindness. [ Sophocles ]

Despair gives courage to a coward. [ Proverb ]

Silence gives (or implies) consent. [ Proverb ]

Union gives strength to the humble. [ Syrus ]

God gives us love. Something to love
He lends us; but when love is grown
To ripeness, that on which it throve
Falls off, and love is left alone. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Like Dian's kiss, unasked, unsought,
Love gives itself, but is not bought;
Nor voice, nor sound betrays
Its deep, impassioned gaze. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Endymion ]

Love gives itself, but is not bought. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Endymion ]

Religion gives a dignity to distress. [ James Hervey ]

God gives the vicious ox short horns. [ Proverb ]

Purpose is what gives life a meaning. [ Charles H. Parkhurst ]

Fortune gives her hand to a bold man. [ Proverb ]

Nature never gives everything at once. [ Johnson ]

He that will be served must be patient. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that gives to a good man sells well. [ Proverb ]

She sits tormenting every guest,
Nor gives her tongue one moment's rest,
In phrases battered, stale, and trite,
Which modern ladies call polite. [ Swift ]

A fop sometimes gives important advice. [ Boileau ]

Heaven gives its favorites early death. [ Byron ]

Neglect gives inspiration to the lover. [ Ar-Rumi ]

When the old dog barks he gives counsel. [ Proverb ]

Delay in vengeance gives a heavier blow. [ J. Ford ]

Only a sweet and virtuous soul,
Like seasoned timber, never gives;
But, though the whole world turn to coal,
Then chiefly lives. [ George Herbert ]

The Present, the Present is all thou hast
For thy sure possessing;
Like the patriarch's angel hold it fast
Till it gives its blessing. [ Whittier ]

It is liberty alone that gives the flower
Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume;
And we are weeds without it. [ Cowper ]

To purchase Heaven has gold the power?
Can gold remove the mortal hour?
In life can love be bought with gold?
Are friendship's pleasures to be sold?
No - all that's worth a wish - a thought.
Fair virtue gives unbribed, unbought.
Cease then on trash thy hopes to bind,
Let nobler views engage thy mind. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals. [ Tacitus ]

To women silence gives their proper grace. [ Sophocles ]

'Tis liberty alone that gives the flowers
Of fleeting life their luster and perfume.
And we are weeds without it. [ Cowper ]

Obedience alone gives the right to command. [ Emerson ]

Affliction is the good man's shining scene;
Prosperity conceals his brightest ray,
As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man. [ Young ]

Never the grave gives back what it has won! [ Schiller ]

The love of fame gives an immense stimulus. [ Ovid ]

Now God be praised, that to believing souls,
Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair! [ William Shakespeare ]

Rudeness is a sauce to his good wit,
Which gives men stomach to digest his words,
With better appetite. [ William Shakespeare ]

God gives the will; necessity gives the law. [ Danish Proverb ]

One to destroy is murder by the law.
And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe;
To murder thousands takes a specious name.
War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame. [ Young ]

That is always best which gives me to myself. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

What's a fine person, or a beauteous face,
Unless deportment gives them decent grace?
Blessed with all other requisites to please.
Some want the striking elegance of ease;
The curious eye their awkward movement tires:
They seem like puppets led about by wires. [ Churchill ]

The hard gives more than he that hath nothing. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod,
The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god. [ Homer ]

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none. [ Martial ]

Celebrity sells dearly what we think she gives. [ E. Souvestre ]

Oh! the pain of pains
Is when the fair one, whom our soul is fond of,
Gives transport, and receives it from another. [ Young ]

God gives his angels charge of those who sleep,
But He Himself watches with those who wake. [ Harriet E. H. King ]

He that will not have peace, God gives him war. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Fate gives us parents; choice gives us friends. [ Delille ]

He that gives me small gifts would have me live. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

None ever gives the lie to him that praises him. [ Proverb ]

The good mother says not "will you ?" but gives. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

'T is the sunset of life gives us mystical lore. [ Campbell ]

He that gives his heart will not deny his money. [ Proverb ]

Beauty? thou pretty plaything! dear deceit,
That steals so softly over the stripling's heart
And gives it a new pulse unknown before! [ Blair ]

Trade hardly deems the busy day begun,
Till his keen eye along the sheet has run;
The blooming daughter throws her needle by.
And reads her schoolmate's marriage with a sigh;
While the grave mother puts her glasses on.
And gives a tear to some old crony gone.
The preacher, too, his Sunday theme lays down,
To know what last new folly fills the town;
Lively or sad, life's meanest, mightiest things.
The fate of fighting cocks, or fighting kings. [ Sprague ]

Know from the bounteous heavens all riches flow;
And what man gives, the gods by man bestow. [ Homer ]

If we from wealth to poverty descend,
Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend. [ Dryden ]

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

He that gives to a grateful man puts out to usury. [ Proverb ]

Our leisure gives us more to do than our business.

Style is what gives value and currency to thought. [ Amiel ]

What one day gives us, another takes away from us. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Heaven gives us friends to bless the present scene;
Resumes them, to prepare us for the next. [ Young ]

Believing hear, what you deserve to hear.
Your birthday as my own to me is dear.
Blest and distinguish'd days! which we should prize
The first, the kindest bounty of the skies.
But yours gives most; for mine did only lend,
Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend. [ Martial ]

He that gives all before he dies provides to suffer. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He gives one knock on the iron and two on the anvil. [ Proverb ]

It is difficult to repent of what gives us pleasure. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

To will what God doth will, that is the only science
That gives us any rest. [ Malherbe ]

I dreamt my lady came and found me dead.
(Strange dream! that gives a dead man leave to think)
And breath'd such life with kisses in my lips
That I reviv'd, and was an emperor. [ William Shakespeare ]

Who gives a trifle meanly, is meaner than the trifle. [ Lavater ]

He that gives customarily to the vulgar buys trouble. [ Proverb ]

God gives birds their food, but they must fly for it. [ Dutch Proverb ]

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

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality. [ Jean Paul ]

Fortune gives to many too much, but to no one enough. [ German Proverb ]

It is simply expression that gives reality to things. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

The more light a torch gives, the less while it lasts. [ Proverb ]

Grief that gives way to verses is not very lamentable. [ Proverb ]

Contentment gives a crown where fortune hath denied it. [ Ford ]

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven,
And, as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name. [ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream ]

A fool demands much, but he is a greater that gives it. [ Proverb ]

Habit gives endurance, and fatigue is the best nightcap. [ Kincaid ]

Genius always gives its best at first, prudence at last. [ Lavater ]

Everybody gives advice: some listen to it; none apply it. [ Alfred Bougeart ]

When a man is going downhill, everybody gives him a kick. [ Proverb ]

My cow gives a good mess of milk, and then kicks it down. [ Proverb ]

In love, she who gives her portrait promises the original. [ A. Dupuy ]

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. [ Ovid ]

He that would hang his dog gives out first that he is mad. [ Proverb ]

He that gives thee a capon, give him the leg and the wing. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Charity gives itself rich; covetousness hoards itself poor. [ German Proverb ]

He that dallies with his enemy gives him leave to kill him. [ Proverb ]

The law discovers the disease. The gospel gives the remedy. [ Martin Luther ]

God gives His wrath by weight, and without weight His mercy. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Accent is the soul of speech; it gives it feeling and truth. [ Rousseau ]

God gives his wrath by weight, but his mercy without measure. [ Proverb ]

Variety alone gives joy; the sweetest meats the soonest cloy. [ Prior ]

When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again. [ Shakespeare ]

If love gives wit to fools, it undoubtedly takes it from wits. [ A. Karr ]

The last taste of things gives them the name of sweet or sour. [ Proverb ]

He that gives to be seen would never relieve a man in the dark. [ Proverb ]

The way in which we form our ideas gives character to our minds. [ Rousseau ]

Culture implies all which gives a mind possession of its powers. [ Emerson ]

I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength. [ Propertius ]

He that gives to a worthy person bestows a benefit upon himself. [ Proverb ]

Accent is the soul of language: it gives to it feeling and truth. [ Rousseau ]

Flattery is a base coin, to which only our vanity gives currency. [ La Roche ]

When a lover gives, he demands - and much more than he has given. [ Parny ]

The presence of God calms the soul, and gives it quiet and repose. [ Fenelon ]

Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm. [ Richter ]

The past gives us regret, the present sorrow, and the future fear. [ Mme. de Lambert ]

Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes. [ Schiller ]

God gives every bird its nest, but does not throw it into the nest. [ Josiah Gilbert Holland (pseudonym Timothy Titcomb) ]

God is a being who gives everything but punishment in over measure. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask. [ Lamartine ]

Flattery is a sort of bad money, to which our vanity gives currency. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Love, that seldom gives us happiness, at least makes us dream of it. [ Senancourt ]

Sleep is a generous thief; he gives to vigor what he takes from time. [ Elizabeth, Queen of Roumania ]

Despair gives the finishing blow not only to misery, but to weakness. [ Vauvenargues ]

He who refuses what is just, gives up everything to an enemy in arms. [ Luc ]

God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed. [ Saadi ]

The weak man who whines of neglect gives the sign of his own weakness. [ Ada Isaacs Menken ]

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return. [ Lowell ]

It is chance that gives us relations, but we give friends to ourselves. [ Delille ]

Nature gives parts and merit, but it is fortune that brings them forth. [ Proverb ]

He that prepares for ill gives the blow a meeting, and breaks its stroke. [ Proverb ]

God gives whole days to the fortunate, and but some hours to the unhappy. [ Proverb ]

He who gives of his wealth before dying, prepares himself to suffer much. [ Italian Proverb ]

Like Dian's kiss, unasked, unsought, love gives itself, but is not bought. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

The animal with long ears, after having drunk, gives a kick to the bucket. [ From the Italian ]

He that gives time to resolve, gives time to deny, and warning to prevent. [ Proverb ]

Ah! the spendthrift, love: it gives all and everything with the first sigh! [ Madame de Genlis ]

Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. [ Franklin ]

Character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and grey hairs. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

In love, if inconstancy gives some pleasure, constancy alone gives happiness. [ Trublet ]

For variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. [ Jean Paul Richter ]

God gives strength to bear a great deal, if we only strive ourselves to endure. [ Hans Andersen ]

Beauty is the first present Nature gives to women, and the first it takes away. [ Mere ]

He who gives himself airs of importance, exhibits the credentials of impotence. [ Lavater ]

Beauty is the first gift Nature gives to woman, and the first she takes from her.

He who gives up the smallest part of a secret has the rest no longer in his power. [ Richter ]

Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body. [ Lord Greville ]

Evasive of the bridal day, she gives fond hopes to all, and all with hope deceives. [ Pope ]

The weakness of woman gives to some men a victory that their merit would never gain.

A happy jest often gives birth to another; but the child is seldom worth the mother. [ Alfred Bougeart ]

The pretension of youth always gives to a woman a few more years than she really has. [ Jouy ]

He that gives himself leave to play with his neighbour's fame, may soon play it away. [ Proverb ]

Fun gives you a forcible hug, and shakes laughter out of you, whether you will or no. [ Garrick ]

We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe, And still adore the hand that gives the blow. [ Pomfret ]

The best and most important part of every man's education is that which he gives himself. [ Gibbon ]

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives. [ South ]

A friend gives himself to his beloved, and the higher his excellence the richer the gift. [ William Ellery Channing ]

Genius easily hews out its figure from the block, but the sleepless chisel gives it life. [ Willmott ]

It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. [ Goethe ]

Heaven makes sport of human affairs, and the present hour gives no sure promise of the next. [ Ovid ]

When death gives us a long lease of life, it takes as hostages all those whom we have loved. [ Mme. Necker ]

Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Truth lies at the bottom of a well, the depth of which, alas! gives but little hope of release. [ Democritus ]

However virtuous a woman may be, a compliment on her virtue is what gives her the least pleasure. [ Prince de Ligne ]

It is thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and gives health and vigor to the mind. [ T. Fuller ]

Heaven gives the grace needed for the moment; he who seizes it quickly becomes master of his fate. [ Raupach ]

The moderation of fortunate people comes from' the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

The heart is like the tree that gives balm for the wounds of man, only when the iron has wounded it. [ Chateaubriand ]

It is the treating of the common-place with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power. [ J. F. Millet ]

It is motive alone that gives real value to the actions of men, and disinterestedness puts the cap to it. [ Bruyere ]

In giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given. [ George MacDonald ]

With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right. [ Abraham Lincoln ]

Nature tempts us continually, but we are not responsible for the sin, unless our reasoning gives its consent. [ Pascal ]

Be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. [ Henry van Dyke ]

The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect and virtues. [ Channing ]

The poet's heart is an unlighted torch, which gives no help to his footsteps till love has touched it with flame. [ Lowell ]

Every person has two educations - one which he receives from others, and one more important, which he gives himself.

Intellectual progress, separated from moral progress, gives a fearful result: a being possessing nothing but brains. [ A. de Gasparin ]

Truth is simple and gives little trouble, but falsehood gives occasion for the frittering away of time and strength. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible, and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world. [ Mme. de Staël ]

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Thou canst withstand fate, but many a time it gives blows. Will it not go out of thy way, why then, go thou out of its. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Truth illuminates and gives joy; and it is by the bond of joy, not of pleasure, that men's spirits are indissolubly held. [ Matthew Arnold ]

God does with His children as a master does with his pupils; the more hopeful they are, the more work He gives them to do. [ Plato ]

To a close shorn sheep God gives wind by measure. (This is probably the origin of God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.) [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

If fortune wishes to make a man estimable she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed she gives him success. [ Joubert ]

Time is the king of men; he is both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave. [ William Shakespeare ]

Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity. [ Joubert ]

Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures upon the tablet of memory into strong relief. [ Tuckerman ]

He who gives what he would as readily throw away gives without generosity: for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice. [ Henry Taylor ]

Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it in poetry or painting must produce a much greater. [ Dryden ]

One wit, like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a zest and flavor to the dish; but more than one serves only to spoil the pottage. [ Smollett ]

The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things. [ Madame Swetchine ]

In health there is liberty. Health is the first of all liberties, and happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health. [ Amiel ]

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul. [ Charles Buxton ]

Love never reasons, but profusely gives--gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles then lest it has done too little. [ Hannah More ]

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed or damps our efforts. [ Hazlitt ]

Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we chiefly excel. [ Hume ]

A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts. [ Emerson ]

Nature gives healthy children much; how much! Wise education is a wise unfolding of this; often it unfolds itself better of its own accord. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it. [ Carlyle ]

Every man willingly gives value to the praise which he receives, and considers the sentence passed in his favour as the sentence of discernment. [ Johnson ]

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but time friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. [ R. Burton ]

Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes' conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

When a man gives proof that his heart is sound and that his life is sound, there is no divergence of opinion that should keep us from fellowship with him. [ Ward Beecher ]

Women live only in the emotion that love gives. An old lady confessed that she had loved much,when young: Ah! she exclaimed, the exquisite pain of those days! [ A. Houssaye ]

The presence of a young girl is like the presence of a flower; the one gives its perfume to all that approach it, the other her grace to all that surround her. [ Louis Desnoyers ]

Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; It is to make use of all our organs, functions, and faculties. This alone gives us the consciousness of existence. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

Friendship heightens all our affections. We receive all the ardor of our friend in addition to our own. The communication of minds gives to each the fervor of each. [ William Ellery Channing ]

No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable feeling as when one associates with his equals. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

I value the education of the intellect not for its present joy alone, but for the greater growth it gives, the enlargement of the cup to take in more and higher joys. [ Parker ]

Charity feeds the poor, so does pride; charity builds an hospital, so does pride. In this they differ: charity gives her glory to God: pride takes her glory from man. [ Quarles ]

He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided advantage over his opponents. [ Colton ]

Grammar speaks; dialectics teaches us truth; rhetoric gives colouring to our speech; music sings; arithmetic reckons; geometry measures; astronomy teaches us the stars.

For it comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him. [ William Shakespeare ]

God gives the mind, man makes the character. The mind is the garden, the character is the fruit; the mind is the white page, the character is the writing we put upon it. [ George S. Weaver ]

Is it not the realization of his enforced sufferings in this world that gives man the hope of a better life after death, as a just compensation for the miseries in this? [ De Finod ]

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the Angel of the Resurrection. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

A nobleness and elevation of mind, together with firmness of constitution, gives lustre and dignity to the aspect, and makes the soul, as it were, shine through the body. [ Jeremy Collier ]

Like one who draws the model of a house beyond his power to build it, who, half through, gives o'er, and leaves his part-created cost a naked subject to the weeping clouds. [ William Shakespeare ]

A lady of genius will give a genteel air to her whole dress by a well-fancied suit of knots, as a judicious writer gives a spirit to a whole sentence by a single expression. [ Gay ]

God gives us power to bear all the sorrows of His making; but He does not give us power to bear the sorrows of our own making, which the anticipation of sorrow most assuredly is. [ Alexander Maclaren ]

Music, if only listened to, and not scientifically cultivated, gives too much play to the feelings and fancy; the difficulties of the art draw forth the whole energies of the soul. [ Richter ]

A large bare forehead gives a woman a masculine and defying look. The word effrontery comes from it. The hair should be brought over such a forehead as vines are trailed over a wall. [ Leigh Hunt ]

He who kindly shows the way to one who has gone astray, acts as though he had lighted another's lamp from his own, which both gives light to the other and continues to shine for himself. [ Cicero ]

The practice of perseverance is the discipline of the noblest virtues. To run well, we must run to the end. It is not the fighting but the conquering that gives a hero his title to renown. [ E. L. Magoon ]

Charity commandeth us, where we know no ill, to think well of all; but friendship, that always goes a step higher, gives a man a peculiar right and claim to the good opinion of his friend. [ R. South ]

Rarity gives a charm: thus early fruits are most esteemed; thus winter roses obtain a higher price; thus coyness sets off an extravagant mistress; a door ever open attracts no young suitor. [ Martial ]

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which, one would think, might dispose us to modesty, for the more a man knows, the more he discovers his ignorance. [ Frances Kemble ]

Who confers reputation? who gives respect and veneration to persons, to books, to great men? Who but Opinion? How utterly insufficient are all the riches of the world without her approbation! [ Pascal ]

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 ]

A copious manner of expression gives strength and weight to our ideas, which frequently make impression upon the mind, as iron does upon solid bodies, rather by repeated strokes than a single blow. [ Melmoth ]

Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us in human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves. [ A. B. Alcott ]

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest. He does not unearth the good that the earth contains, but He puts it in our way, and gives us the means of getting it ourselves. [ J. G. Holland ]

He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives him only a cruel opportunity of feeling his misery, of burying his better part, and surviving himself [ South ]

What is grief? It is an obscure labyrinth into which God leads man, that he may be experienced in life, that he may remember his faults and abjure them, that he may appreciate the calm which virtue gives. [ Leopold Scheffer ]

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 ]

Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them. [ Bovee ]

He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with the other; but he that gives good admonition and bad example builds with one hand and pulls down with the other. [ Bacon ]

Business is the salt of life, which not only gives a grateful smack to it, but dries up those crudities that would offend, preserves from putrefaction and drives off all those blowing flies that would corrupt it. [ Feltham ]

Remember that it is not he who gives abuse or blows who affronts, but the view we take of these things as insulting. When, therefore, any one provokes you, be assured that it is your own opinion which provokes you. [ Epictetus ]

Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious; but, for the same reason, every one is eager to instruct his neighbors. [ Johnson ]

What with the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or pleasure. It gives one position and prevents one from keeping it up. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

Truth only is prolific. Error, sterile in itself, produces only by means of the portion of truth which it contains. It may have offspring, but the life which it gives, like that of the hybrid races, cannot be transmitted. [ Madame Swetchine ]

Pride is the common forerunner of a fall. It was the devil's sin. and the devil's ruin; and has been, ever since, the devil's stratagem, who, like an expert wrestler, usually gives a man a lift before he gives him a throw. [ South ]

Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings, - as some savage tribes determine the power of their muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best. [ Plutarch ]

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history. [ Robert Hall ]

Whatever is pure is also simple. It does not keep the eye on itself. The observer forgets the window in the landscape it displays. A fine style gives the view of fancy - its figures, its trees, or its palaces, - without a spot. [ Willmott ]

There is a sweet anguish springing up in our bosoms when a child's face brightens under the shadow of the waiting angel. There is an autumnal fitness when age gives up the ghost; and when the saint dies there is a tearful victory. [ Chapin ]

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears otherwise gives advantage to the danger; it is less folly not to endeavor the prevention of the evil thou fearest than to fear the evil which thy endeavor cannot prevent. [ Quarles ]

Any man shall speak the better when he knows what others have said, and sometimes the consciousness of his inward knowledge gives a confidence to his outward behavior, which of all other is the best thing to grace a man in his carriage. [ Feltham ]

Love can take what shape he pleases; and when once begun his fiery inroad in the soul, how vain the after knowledge which his presence gives! We weep or rave; but still he lives, and lives master and lord, amidst pride and tears and pain. [ Barry Cornwall ]

Genius is that power of man which by its deeds and actions gives laws and rules; and it does not, as used to be thought, manifest itself only by over-stepping existing laws, breaking established rules, and declaring itself above all restraint. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

He that gives all, though but little, gives much; because God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but to the quality of the givers; he that desires to give more than he can hath equaled his gift to his desire, and hath given more than he hath. [ Quarles ]

Nothing on earth is without difficulty. Only the inner impulse, the pleasure it gives and love enable us to surmount obstacles; to make smooth our way, and lift ourselves out of the narrow grooves in which other people sorrowfully distress themselves. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness prevents vision, too great prolixity or brevity weakens an argument, too much pleasure gives pain, too much accordance annoys. [ Pascal ]

Nature gives you the impression as if there were nothing contradictory in the world; and yet, when you return back to the dwelling-place of man, be it lofty or low, wide or narrow, there is ever somewhat to contend with, to battle with, to smooth and put to rights. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Bear your burden manfully. Boys at school, young men who have exchanged boyish liberty for serious business - all who have got a task to do, a work to finish - bear the burden till God gives the signal for repose - till the work is done, and the holiday is fairly earned. [ James Hamilton ]

Reading without purpose is sauntering, not exercise. More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye. A cottage flower gives honey to the bee, a king's garden none to the butterfly. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Good-nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. It shows virtue in the fairest light; takes off in some measure from the deformity of vice; and makes even folly and impertinence supportable. [ Addison ]

Blessings we enjoy daily; and for most of them, because they be so common, most men forget to pay their praises; but let not us, because it is a sacrifice so pleasing to Him that made the sun and us, and still protects us, and gives us flowers and showers and meat and content. [ Izaak Walton ]

Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argument and less wit, and who are the loudest when least lucid, should take a lesson from the great volume of nature; she often gives us the lightning without the thunder, but never the thunder without the lightning. [ Burritt ]

A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God ever gives us. [ Bovee ]

Moral beauty is the basis of all true beauty. This foundation is somewhat covered and veiled in nature. Art brings it out, and gives it more transparent forms. It is here that art, when it knows well its power and resources, engages in a struggle with nature in which it may have the advantage. [ Victor Cousin ]

Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold, a woman adds to it her sympathy. A small sum in the hands of a woman does more good than a hundred times as much in the hands of a man. Feminine charity renews every day the miracle of Christ feeding a multitude with a few loaves and fishes. [ E. Legouve ]

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 ]

There is nothing more necessary to establish reputation than to suspend the enjoyment of it. He that cannot bear the sense of merit with silence must of necessity destroy it; for fame being the genial mistress of mankind, whoever gives it to himself insults all to whom he relates any circumstance to his own advantage. [ Steele ]

Nothing makes a woman more esteemed by the opposite sex than chastity; whether it be that we always prize those most who are hardest to come at, or that nothing besides chastity, with its collateral attendants, truth, fidelity, and constancy, gives the man a property in the person he loves, and consequently endears her to him above all things. [ Addison ]

The study of the mathematics cultivates the reason; that of the languages at the same time the reason and the taste. The former gives power to the mind; the latter, both power and flexibility. The former, by itself, would prepare us for a state of certainties, which nowhere exists; the latter, for a state of probabilities, which is that of common life. [ T. Godfrey ]

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applause of the public. [ Addison ]

The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon. But even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents to him. It is the lapidary that gives value to the diamond, which the peasant has dug up without knowing its worth. [ Abbe Raynal ]

A book becomes a mirror, with the author's face shining over it. Talent only gives an imperfect image, - the broken glimmer of a countenance. But the features of genius remain unruffled. Time guards the shadow. Beauty, the spiritual Venus, - whose children are the Tassos, the Spensers, the Bacons, - breathes the magic of her love, and fixes the face forever. [ Willmott ]

By conversing with the mighty dead, we imbibe sentiment with knowledge. We become strongly attached to those who can no longer either hurt or serve us, except through the influence which they exert over the mind. We feel the presence of that power which gives immortality to human thoughts and actions, and catch the flame of enthusiasm from all nations and ages. [ Hazlitt ]

Let any man examine his thoughts, and he will find them ever occupied with the past or the future. We scarcely think at all of the present; or if we do, it is only to borrow the light which it gives, for regulating the future. The present is never our object; the past and the present we use as means; the future only is our end. Thus, we never live, we only hope to live. [ Pascal ]

There is something too dear in the hope of seeing again.... Dear heart, be quiet; we say; you will not be long separated from those people that you love; be quiet, dear heart! And then we give it in the meanwhile a shadow, so that it has something, and then it is good and quiet, like a little child whose mother gives it a doll instead of the apple which it ought not to eat. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction an assent, an enraged eye makes beauty deformed. This little member gives life to every other part about us; and I believe the story of Argus implies no more than that the eye is in every part; that is to say, every other part would be mutilated were not its force represented more by the eye than even by itself. [ Joseph Addison ]

A woman at middle age retains nothing of the pettiness of youth; she is a friend who gives you all the feminine delicacies, who displays all the graces, all the prepossessions which Nature has given to woman to please man, but who no longer sells these qualities. She is hateful or lovable, according to her pretensions to youth, whether they exist under the epidermis or whether they are dead. [ Balzac ]

Whosoever shall look heedfully upon those who are eminent for their riches will not think their condition such as that he should hazard his quiet, and much less his virtue, to obtain it, for all that great wealth generally gives above a moderate fortune is more room for the freaks of caprice, and more privilege for ignorance and vice, a quicker succession of flatteries, and a larger circle of voluptuousness. [ Johnson ]

The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every scrap of knowledge in art, every observation of his own in it, every hint he has caught from another. For the laws of beauty are the beauty of beauty, and give the mind the same or a higher joy than the sight of it gives the senses. The study of art is of high value to the growth of the intellect. [ Emerson ]

The habit of committing our thoughts to writing is a powerful means of expanding the mind, and producing a logical and systematic arrangement of our views and opinions. It is this which gives the writer a vast superiority, as to the accuracy and extent of his conceptions, over the mere talker. No one can ever hope to know the principles of any art or science thoroughly who does not write as well as read upon the subject. [ Blakey ]

Calumny is a monstrous vice: for, where parties indulge in it, there are always two that are actively engaged in doing wrong, and one who is subject to injury. The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; he who gives credit to the calumny before he has investigated the truth is equally implicated. The person traduced is doubly injured - first by him who propagates, and secondly by him who credits the calumny. [ Heroidotus ]

The importance of the romantic element does not rest upon conjecture. Pleasing testimonies abound. Hannah More traced her earliest impressions of virtue to works of fiction; and Adam Clarke gives a list of tales that won his boyish admiration. Books of entertainment led him to believe in a spiritual world; and he felt sure of having been a coward, but for romances. He declared that he had learned more of his duty to God, his neighbor and himself from Robinson Crusoe than from all the books, except the Bible, that were known to his youth. [ Willmott ]

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Words within the letters of gives

2 letter words in gives (1 word)

3 letter words in gives (1 word)

4 letter words in gives (3 words)

5 letter words in gives (1 word)

gives + 1 blank (3 words)

Words containing the sequence gives

Words that start with gives (1 word)

Words with gives in them (1 word)

Words that end with gives (6 words)

Word Growth involving gives

Shorter words in gives

give

Longer words containing gives

forgives

misgives

outgives

overgives

regives