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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

—Norman Douglas

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If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.

—Margaret Cho

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You try to give away what you want yourself.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

—Kahlil Gibran

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Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.

—John Wesley

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Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

—George Eliot

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There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.

—Euripides

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A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.

—Eleanor Hamilton

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The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

—Charles Dudley Warner

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The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

—Baltasar Gracián

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You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.

—Albert Schweitzer

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

—Thomas A. Edison

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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

—Seneca

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Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.

—Samuel Butler

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