Gifts Quotes
Every day is a gift- even if it sucks. - Sherry Hochman
It takes all the fun out of a bracelet if you have to buy it yourself. - Peggy Joyce
The only gift is a portion of thyself.- Unknown
A hug is a great gift - one size fits all, and it’s easy to exchange. - Unknown
Nothing’s as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas. - Unknown
We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. - Unknown
I was always told I was special. And I was also assured that I had a gift and a purpose. - Unknown
Change always comes bearing gifts. - Unknown
What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God. - Unknown
Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons. - Unknown
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today ? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present. - Unknown
Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts. - Ovid
Gifts make their way through stone walls. - Proverb
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Unknown
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. - Unknown
I consider everything I compose a gift. - Unknown
What is bought is cheaper than a gift. - Unknown
A friend is a gift you give yourself. - Unknown
What we share with another ceases to be our own. - Edgar Quinet
Christmas is the season when you buy this year’s gifts with next year’s money. - Unknown
He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them. - Unknown
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. - Unknown
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. - Unknown
He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie. - Unknown
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. - Unknown
Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life. - Gottfried Reinhardt
To receive gifts is to lose freedom. - Sandi
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving. - Unknown
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present. - Unknown
If a person gives you his time, he can give you no more precious gift. - Unknown
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. - Unknown
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it. - Unknown
The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch. - Unknown
A book is a gift you can open again and again. - Unknown
What you are is God's gift to you, what you do with yourself is your gift to God. - Unknown
A gift blinds the wise and perverts the words of the righteous. - Bible
One rose says more than the dozen - Wendy Craig
Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving. - Unknown
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. - Unknown
I’m unable to ignore the gift that God gave me, so I’m going to sing. - Unknown
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say “thank you?” - Unknown
God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame. - Unknown
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance. - Unknown
Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third. - Unknown
In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all. - William Randolph Hearst
What is bought is cheaper than a gift. -Portuguese Proverb
A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver. -Thomas á Kempis
The only gift is a portion of thyself. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays
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, "Gifts," Essays, Second Series, 1844
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
The manner of giving is worth more than the gift. -Pierre Corneille, Le Menteur
Christmas is the season when you buy this year's gifts with next year's money. -Author Unknown
A hug is a great gift - one size fits all, and it's easy to exchange. -Author Unknown
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
'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet,
Could we bestow the gifts we get,
And keep the ones we give away,
How happy were our Christmas day!
-Carolyn Wells
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving. -Max Beerbohm
Pleasure is spread through the earth
In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
-William Wordsworth
What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God. -Eleanor Powell
The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch. -Catherine Hall
The Christmas season has come to mean the period when the public plays Santa Claus to the merchants. -John Andrew Holmes
May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through! -Author Unknown
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning
God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands. -Rabindranath Tagore
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. -Author Unknown
To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year. -Elwyn Brooks White
Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas. -Kin Hubbard
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?" -William A. Ward
