Quotes About Gifts

Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts. (Ghan-buri-Ghan, of allies during war)

God has given the salt lick to the deer; and He has given to man, red-skin and white, the delicious spring at which to slake his thirst.

Presents, believe me, seduce both men and gods.

From my experience of life I believe my personal motto should be: 'Beware of any man bringing flowers.

Man discovers his own wealth when God comes to ask gifts of him.

Don't throw me teddy-bears, I'm 23! I'm a man! Throw me condoms or money! Paper, not coins.

But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.

However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.

Men live best upon a little; Nature has given to all the privilege of being happy, if they but knew how to use their gifts.

If you want to give a man something practical, consider tires. More than once, I would have gladly traded all the gifts I got for a new set of tires.

The gifts of bad men bring no good with them.

A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." —WORDSWORTH.

You never want to give a man a present when he's feeling good. You want to do it when he's down.

The man's got more money than God, and he sends you a bag of coffee?

Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him.

To say that God has given a man many and great talents frequently means that he has brought his heavens down within reach of his hands.

So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.

Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for wanting them.

The only just literary critic," he concluded, "is Christ, who admires more than does any man the gifts He Himself has bestowed.

Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.

Take gifts with a sigh: most men give to be paid.

My freind is the man who gives me a book I aint read."Abraham Linclion

...no gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love.

My mom and my dad taught me the greatest gifts we have are our family, our health and the right to clean water and good land.