Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

A good friend of my son's is a son to me.

—Unknown

It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.

—Unknown

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.

—Unknown

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

—Unknown

It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.

—Unknown

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

—William Shakespeare

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

—Thomas Fuller

The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.

—Winston Churchill

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

—Seneca

A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.

—Publilius Syrus