Gifts Quotes

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

– Joyce Meyer

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

– Antisthenes

Counting one thousand gifts, I discovered I could count on God.

– Ann Voskamp

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

– Aeschylus

The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.

– Alfred Lord Tennyson

‘Gifts’ was just a short little one-verse song that I used to close shows in the ’60s.

– Bruce Cockburn

One of the greatest gifts I’ve ever gotten is my daughter.

– Ace Frehley

Arab states continue to send the Palestinians gifts of extravagant rhetoric and countless Arab League resolutions – but not much cash.

– Elliott Abrams

I don’t give any gifts to the rich.

– Nicolas Sarkozy

Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

– Garth Brooks

More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment.

– Edward Sapir

All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.

– Janet Erskine Stuart

Helping others isn’t a chore; it is one of the greatest gifts there is.

– Liya Kebede

Gifts make slaves.

– Levi Strauss

They presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.

– The Bible

Matthew 2:11

Like clouds and wind without rain is one who boasts of gifts never given.

– The Bible

Proverbs 25:14

There were no gifts. Everything is properly accounted for. I provided testimony and evidence to the committee… This was all stuff that was previously known.

– Robert Torricelli

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

– Virgil

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

– Walter Benjamin

Enemies’ gifts are no gifts and do no good.

– Sophocles