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I make presents to the mother, but think of the daughter. [Ger., Der Mutter schenk' ich, Die Tochter denk' ich.] - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Spruche in Reimen (III) Give an inch, he'll take an ell. - Thomas Hobbes, Liberty and Necessity (no. 111) Rare gift! but oh, what gift to fools avails! - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Odyssey (bk. 10, l. 29), (Pope's translation) Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom. [Lat., Omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Ars Poetica (337) Never look a gift horse in the mouth. [Lat., Noli equi dentes inspicere donati.] - Saint Jerome (Eusebius Hieronymus Sophronius, called Hieronymus), On the Epistle to the Ephesians When you give, give with joy and smiling. - Joseph Joubert He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver. - Thomas a Kempis It is a proof of boorishness to confer a favor with a bad grace; it is the act of giving that is hard and painful. How little does a smile cost? - Jean de la Bruyere "Presents," I often say, endear Absents." - Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia), A Dissertation upon Roast Pig I never cast a flower away, A gift of one who car'd for me; A flower--a faded flower, But it was done reluctantly. - Letitia Elizabeth Landon (Mrs. George MacLean) A gift--its kind, its value and appearance; the silence or the pomp that attends it; the style in which it reaches you--may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver. - Johann Kaspar Lavater (John Caspar Lavater) The manner of giving shows the character of the giver more than the gift itself. - Johann Kaspar Lavater (John Caspar Lavater) Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle. - Johann Kaspar Lavater (John Caspar Lavater) For the will and not the gift makes the giver. [Ger., Denn der Wille Und nicht die Gabe macht den Geber.] - Ephraim Gotthold Lessing, Nathan der Wiese (I, 5) To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh A woman's mind is affected by the meanest gifts. [Lat., Parvis mobilis rebus animus muliebris.] - Titus Livy, Annales (VI, 34) The greatest grace of a gift, perhaps, is that it anticipates and admits of no return. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Not what we give, but what we share,-- For the gift without the giver is bare. - James Russell Lowell, Vision of Sir Launfal (pt. II, st. 8) God's love gives in such a way that it flows from a Father's heart, the well-spring of all good. The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious; as among ourselves we say of even a trifling gift, "It comes from a hand we love," and look not so much at the gift as at the heart. - Martin Luther Riches, understanding, beauty, are fair gifts of God. - Martin Luther The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious. - Martin Luther In giving, a man receives more than he gives, and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given. - George MacDonald, Mary Marston (ch. V) People do not care to give alms without some security for their money; and a wooden leg or a withered arm is a sort of draft upon heaven for those who choose to have their money placed to account there. - Henry Mackenzie ("Man of Feeling" or "Addison of the North") Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows? - Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis) Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return. [Lat., Quisquis magna dedit, voluit sibi magna remitti.] - Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis), Epigrams (V, 59, 3) Displaying page 2 of 4 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4
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