No receiver, no thief. [ Proverb ]

And be the thread of coarse or fine,
The loom is still the best receiver!
Whatever I spin, the same is mine.
Returned in full from Time the Weaver. [ Henry Reed ]

An ill receiver makes an ill paymaster. [ Proverb ]

Ingratitude makes the receiver worse, but the benefactor better. [ Proverb ]

Charity ever finds in the act reward, and needs no trumpet in the receiver. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver. [ Emerson ]

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver, and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings. [ Burke ]

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element. [ Hare ]

Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another; if thou receive not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter; if thou receive them, they flee forward and wound the receiver. [ Quarles ]

We are not fond of praising, and never praise any one except from interested motives. Praise is a clever, concealed, and delicate flattery, which gratifies in different ways the giver and the receiver. The one takes it as a recompense of his merit, and the other bestows it to display his equity and discernment. [ Rochefoucauld ]