Quotes
Quotes about Giving
"Poor deer," quoth he, "thou makest a testament
As worldlings do, giving thy sum of more
To that which had too much."
If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again! it had a dying fall:
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour!
He makes sweet music with th' enamell'd stones,
Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge
He overtaketh in his pilgrimage.
To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back.
An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance.
Those obstinate questionings
Of sense and outward things,
Fallings from us, vanishings,
Blank misgivings of a creature
Moving about in worlds not realized,
High instincts before which our mortal nature
Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised.
Good at a fight, but better at a play;
Godlike in giving, but the devil to pay.
Fill every beaker up, my men, pour forth the cheering wine:
There's life and strength in every drop,--thanksgiving to the vine!
In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free,--honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.
Not what we would, but what we must
Makes up the sum of living;
Heaven is both more and less than just
In taking and in giving.
From too much love of living,
From hope and fear set free,
We thank with brief thanksgiving
Whatever gods may be
That no man lives forever,
That dead men rise up never;
That even the weariest river
Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Lord, for the erring thought
Not into evil wrought:
Lord, for the wicked will
Betrayed and baffled still:
For the heart from itself kept,
Our thanksgiving accept.
That it is unwise to be heedless ourselves while we are giving advice to others, I will show in a few lines.
Reckon the days in which you have not been angry. I used to be angry every day; now every other day; then every third and fourth day; and if you miss it so long as thirty days, offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to God.
Giving honour unto the wife as unto the weaker vessel.
To make an illformed sentence like 'Boy out now Wellington transfuse coop'is to write true nonsense, but we are so structured that we will find meaning in it if we can. We will take it that the printer has erred, and that a boy just out of prison in the town of Wellington is willing to cooperate in giving blood for a transfusion
Anthony Burgess A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults. The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
I stand above, blessing, forgiving, with lips untwisted by bitterness, brow all alabaster - smooth, a statue
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
