Gifts Quotes

When the emperor is crowned or the three dukes are appointed, rather than sending a gift of jade carried by four horses, remain still and offer the Way.

For my sister's 50th birthday, I sent her a singing mammogram.

My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.

Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.

How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one

I am the lover's gift; I am the wedding wreath; I am the memory of a moment of happiness; I am the last gift of the living to the dead; I am a part of joy and a part of sorrow.

He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.

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.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.

My son, Rob....said the only time he ever wraps a gift is, quote, "if it's such a poor gift that I don't want to be there when the person opens it."

A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer.

Come with me into the woods where spring is advancing, as it does, no matter what, not being singular or particular, but one of the forever gifts, and certainly visible.

What am I doing with the gifts that have been given and the opportunities that are mine to make things better for others? I think it's always - success has to be beyond the person who is themselves working for personal success. It's also got to be helping someone else.

My wife, like many women, actually LIKES wrapping things. If she gives you a gift that requires batteries, she wraps the batteries separately, which to me is very close to being a symptom of mental illness.

Whatever your calling or purpose is, it's your job to feel it. No gift that you have been given was made for yourself.

I like gifts. I like to give them and I like to get them.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

The only true gifts are a portion of yourself.

The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .

Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire shall be as blue as the great sea.

Find your vision, and let it guide you in all that you do. If you lack vision, look inside yourself. Draw on your natural gifts and desires.

The richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. We hate the kindness which we understand.

A gift isn't a gift unless it has meaning. Just giving things to people, especially children, create the expectation of more things.

In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

I care for riches, to make gifts.

He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the poet brings his poem; the shepherd, his lamb; the farmer, corn; the miner, a stone; the painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing.

I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.

A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie.

The greatest gift that you were ever given was the gift of your imagination.

I never know what to get my father for his birthday. I gave him a hundred dollars and said, 'Buy yourself something that will make your life easier.' So he went out and bought a present for my mother.