Sayings about Gifts
Gifts make their way through stone walls. ~ Traditional Proverb
Mutual gifts cement friendship. ~ Ivorian Proverb
It is difficult to repay the gifts you get at a wedding or a funeral. ~ Chinese Proverb
Gift long expected is sold, not given. ~ Italian Proverb
Gifts reflect those who give them. ~ Chinese Proverb
Gifts make friendship lasting. ~ Danish Proverbs
What is bought is cheaper than a gift. ~ Portuguese Proverbs
The devil always takes back his gifts. ~ Ukrainian Proverbs
When you reject gifts from heaven you will be rewarded in hell. ~ Japanese Proverb
If you give a gift to a rich man, the devil sniggers. ~ French Proverb
Small gifts maintain friendship, big ones maintain love. ~ French Proverb
He that parts with his property before his death prepares himself for much suffering. ~ French Proverb
He who was presented with an ox must give in return a horse. ~ Chinese Proverb
He who gives a monkey as a present doesn’t keep hold of its tail. ~ Ivorian Proverb
A beggar will always be a beggar even if they give him the whole world as a gift. ~ Iranian Proverb
Present to the eye, present to the mind. ~ Chinese Proverb
We make big promises to avoid little presents. ~ French Proverb
One does not give a gift without a motive. ~ Malian Proverbs
When you return from a trip, bring back something for your family — even if it is only a stone. ~ Lebanese Proverb
Giving gifts to the rich is like pouring water into the sea. ~ Russian Proverb
Gifts should be handed, not thrown. ~ Danish Proverbs
Small gifts go to places where men expect bigger ones. ~ Russian Proverbs
I give a present to the mother but I think of the daughter. ~ German Proverbs
Quotations about Gifts
Presents, I often say, endear absents. ~ Charles Lamb
Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales. ~ Walter Ulbricht
Pleasure is spread through the earth. In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find. ~ William Wordsworth
No college or university is so generously supported by tuition, government grants, or income from endowments that it can ignore the need to systematically and vigorously develop the additional resources it must have from private gifts. ~ Robert L. Payton
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance. ~ Brian Tracy
But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith’s. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children? ~ Marcus T. Cicero
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. ~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. ~ Denis Waitley
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights. ~ Bible
It is doubtful if any gift could be brought more precious than the adoration of a heart which has put out all hatred, self-pity and desire for revenge. ~ Charlotte Bronte
It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. ~ Maya Angelou
Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God’s gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences. ~ Freeman Dyson
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. ~ George MacDonald
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ~ William A. Ward
Change always comes bearing gifts. ~ Price Pritchett
Every day is a gift — even if it sucks. ~ Sherry Hochman
In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all. ~ William Randolph Hearst
To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year. ~ Elwyn Brooks White
People give to worthwhile programs rather than to needy institutions. The case must catch the eye, warm the heart and stir the mind. ~ Harold J. Seymour
A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver. ~ Thomas á Kempis
The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch. ~ Catherine Hall
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. ~ Kahlil Gibran Quotes
The richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. ~ Henry David Thoreau
One rose says more than the dozen. ~ Wendy Craig
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present. ~ Alice Morse Earle
We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The size of the gift to an institution is not important. No gift is important, no matter how large, unless it means something to the one who gives it. ~ Blair Schreyer
If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken. ~ Idries Shah
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving. ~ Max Beerbohm
Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money. ~ Robert H. Jackson
It is easy to give alms; it is better to work to make the giving of alms unnecessary. ~ Henry Ford Quotes
Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare. ~ James Russell Lowell
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. ~ William Shakespeare Quotes
May you have the greatest two gifts of all on these holidays: Someone to love and someone who loves you. ~ John Sinor
Nothing’s as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas. ~ Kin Hubbard
What we share with another ceases to be our own. ~ Edgar Quinet
Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life. ~ Gottfried Reinhardt
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only gift is a portion of thyself. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
The Christmas season has come to mean the period when the public plays Santa Claus to the merchants. ~ John Andrew Holmes
We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. ~ Seneca
It takes all the fun out of a bracelet if you have to buy it yourself. ~ Peggy Joyce
A little given seasonably excuses a great gift. ~ George Herbert
Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons. ~ Ruth Ann Schabacker
Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy? ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
A gift blinds the wise and perverts the words of the righteous. ~ Bible
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. ~ Jean Anouilh
Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health. ~ George Herbert
The manner of giving is worth more than the gift. ~ Pierre Corneille
