Quotes About Gifts

These dudes, clutching their little gifts, for them today is their kind-of-honeymoon.

As I look back on my own life, I recognize that some of the greatest gifts I received from my parents stemmed not from what they did for me—but rather from what they didn't do for me.

In the old days, when Hawaiians wanted to give a gift, they doesn't have Safeway. Or any money. They had to take from nature what the gods gave them. Gather the flowers, make the twine, string the flowers. Lots of time and effort. We do the work just to say, 'I love you.' No meaning when we buy a lei in the supermarket.

Die Liebe allein versteht das Geheimnis, andere zu beschenken und dabei selbst reich zu werden.

Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet! on, Cupid! on, Donder and Blitzen!

of toys—and St. Nicholas too.

I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.

Yo temo al Griego, aunque presente dones.

Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes

For you [muses] are divine, and you have the gifts of memory and story; but only the faintest echo of the great tale has come down to me

I have no horror of death, and place no value on any god. Cease therefore. For I come ready to die; and first I bring you these gifts. (Mezentius)

Nate dea, si nemo audet se credere pugnae, quae finis standi?  Quo me decet usque teneri? Ducere dona iube.'  Cuncti simul ore fremebant Dardanidae, reddique viro promissa iubebant.

Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes (Fear Greeks if they bring gifts)

Quicquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentis.

I do not believe that gifts, whether of mind or character, can be weighed like sugar and butter

Life for most people compels the exercise of the lower gifts and wastes the precious ones, until it forces us to agree that there is little virtue, as well as little profit, in what once seemed to us the noblest part of our inheritance.

As a matter of fact, this effort at discipline had been helped by the interests of a difficult profession, but the old conclusion to which Ralph had come when he left college still held sway in his mind, and tinged his views with the melancholy belief that life for most people compels the exercise of the lower gifts and wastes the precious ones, until it forces us to agree that there is little virtue, as well as little profit, in what once seemed to us the noblest part of our inheritance.

Even if one could state the value of any one gift at the moment, those values will change; in a century's time very possibly they will have changed completely.

Nothing says I love yuo like custom-made rounds. ~ Niko to Renata

No one likes to be on the receiving end of a gift projector's drive-by guilting.

You only open a present for the person it's for.

backs. Followed by the traditional Burning of the Gifts. Everyone would gather to watch the toaster and blender explode. Followed by the sacrificial drowning of a bridesmaid, the one who'd caught the fucking bouquet?

Everyone has a talent, and gifts shouldn't be judged by their glory factor

Like a successful modern corporation, you probably don't have more than half a dozen core competencies. Broadly, most people's core competencies fit into certain categories.