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Letter "G" » Gifts
«Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.»
«Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.»
«One of life's gifts is that each of us, no matter how tired and downtrodden, finds reasons for thankfulness: for the crops carried in from the fields and the grapes from the vineyard.»
Author: J. Robert Moskin
| About:
Gifts,
Life,
Thankfulness
| Keywords:
crops, downtrodden, grapes, thankfulness, The Grapes, vineyard
«Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in»
Author: Marcelene Cox
| About:
Children,
Gifts,
Politicians
| Keywords:
aunt, aunts, await, Christmas present, district, districts, Fred, his uncle, precinct, presents, returns, Ruth, The District, uncle
«Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of Nature»
Author: Petronius
| About:
Beauty,
Being a Woman,
Gifts,
Nature,
Women
| Keywords:
attractive, outward, playfulness, sweet talk, transcend
«Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion»
«People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Confidence,
Gifts,
Trust
| Keywords:
complete, conferring, confers, confer with, false, inference, inferences, no confidence, ours, rights
«Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men»
«One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.»
«People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Gifts
| Keywords:
balanced, symmetrical
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