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I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?

The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea four things say not, It is enough: The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.

Like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back.

He ne'er consider'd it as loth To look a gift-horse in the mouth, And very wisely would lay forth No more upon it than 'twas worth; But as he got it freely, so He spent it frank and freely too: For saints themselves will sometimes be, Of gifts that cost them nothing, free.

It is not the weight of jewel or plate, Or the fondle of silk or fur; "Tis the spirit in which the gift is rich, As the gifts of the Wise Ones were, And we are not told whose gift was gold, Or whose was the gift of myrrh.

The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.

It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.

Presents at once? That's good. He is sure to succeed.

Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.

For to give is the business of the rich.

I make presents to the mother, but think of the daughter.

Give an inch, he'll take an ell.

Rare gift! but oh, what gift to fools avails!

Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

"Presents," I often say, endear Absents."

For the will and not the gift makes the giver.

A woman's mind is affected by the meanest gifts.

Not what we give, but what we share,-- For the gift without the giver is bare.