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Quotations by Subject: Giving
(Related Subjects: Charity, Kindness)
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You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.: Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.: Baltasar Gracian
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.: Charles Dudley Warner (1829 - 1900), 'Eleventh Study,' Backlog Studies, 1873
A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.: Eleanor Hamilton
There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Medea, 431 B.C.
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.: John Wesley (1703 - 1791)
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.: Lenore Hershey
You try to give away what you want yourself.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.: Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-09-04
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.: Norman Douglas
What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.: P. D. James, Time to Be in Earnest
Gifts allow us to demonstrate exactly how little we know about a person. And nothing pisses a person off more than being shoved into the wrong pigeonhole.: Pam Davis, House M.D., It's A Wonderful Lie, 2008
A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Moral Sayings, 100 B.C.
He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims
The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Letters to Lucilius, 100 A.D.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, 1600


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