Proverbs about gifts. Presents

Only a gift for no reason is a real gift.

They are more willing to give to the rich than to lend to the poor.

It is impossible to give a woman too many flowers, and too many toys for a child.

The cherished ring is good and worn.

If a husband gives his wife flowers for no reason, then he just saw this reason.

If I could give a present to a newborn, I would choose only one thing: good character.

Virtue alone is neither given nor accepted as a gift.

That gift is considered a true gift, which is given, as it should be given, given free of charge, in the right place, at the right time and for the right person.

To please the heart, it doesn't matter whether the gift is small or large.

Significant quotes about the gift

Nothing can be given so generously as hope.

Why is it so difficult to buy a gift that looks as much as it actually costs?

The best gift is money: you can use it to buy another gift.

Creating is better than destroying, and giving is better than receiving.

You give little when you give with what you have. When you give a part of yourself, it is a sincere gift.

On the day of his ninetieth birthday, colleagues presented him with an eternal feather.

Useful gifts are best. Let's say I give him handkerchiefs, he gives me a mink coat.

Refined Significant Gift Quotes

Life is a gift we didn't ask for.

Happy is not the one who receives the gift, but the one who makes the gift.

Any gift is good, that is not money, it is presented to you.

The most blessed and desirable gift is when the giver remains nameless.

Gifts are received by the one who has something to give.

Rich gifts become insignificant when the donors are unkind.

It's nice to be remembered, but often it's cheaper to be forgotten.

Grant light, and darkness will disappear by itself.

Birthday gifts fall into two categories: those we don’t like and those we don’t receive.

They don't look a Trojan horse in the mouth.

Be indifferent, accepting anything! Show honor already by accepting - this is how I advise those who have nothing to bestow.

The perfect gift: a thing that a woman can exchange in a store even a month later.

Precious Significant Gift Quotes

Royal favors are sown into the boyar sieve.

The most precious gift of nature is a cheerful, mocking and kind mind.

You have to be poor to know how to give.

The purchased chicken is cheaper than the donated one.

Give him the whole world and he will demand more wrapping paper.

The blind man will not thank you for the mirror.

Money is the best gift. Everything else is too expensive.

Friendship is based on small gifts, love on large ones.

The perfect gift for a man who has everything is a woman who knows what to do with it all.

What is bought is cheaper than a gift.

Great gifts are useful only to those who deserve them, while for others they are dangerous.

And even the president wants to get a present for his birthday.

The value of the gift is the content of the giver.

God gave life. Now life is full of surprises.

The best gift for a woman is a child.

What they give, the more they reproach.

Those who are stingy with gifts are generous with promises.

They give you gifts with money, you know - you are a closed person, and it is hard to split you. Nobody knew you well, and will not recognize you.

Fate will grant us what we want when we have already learned to do without it.

Pleasant is the gift that anticipates the request.

Having to reject a gift just because it was offered inappropriately is embittered against the giver.

There are gifts, the receipt of which obliges the donee to repay the giver a hundredfold: thus, the gift as such does not exist.

Funny significant quotes about a gift

Fate does not give gifts, for itself is not a gift.

Gifts, like good ones, bring joy to the giver.

Christmas is the season of exchanging things you can't afford for things you don't need.

Why don't I give you my books? So that you never give your own to me.

They do not look at a given horse's teeth.

Most wonderful giftmade to people after wisdom is friendship.

We give a woman flowers, a star from heaven, a spinning ball and go with her to you ... And after that we give very little.

Perfume is given to ladies when they meet.

A gift is not a gift if it is not given free of charge, and love is not love if it is given with conditions.

If you can make a gift, then do not hesitate with it, remembering that circumstances are changeable.

Nothing stirs up a wife's suspicions like an unexpected gift from her husband.

The cheapest way to please a woman is to give her expensive gifts.

You, of course, are not a gift, but holidays are not every day.

If your wife gives you a tie for no reason, then a new one mink coat she doesn't like it anymore.

Take everything that would not happen to you in life as a gift that you make to yourself.

God is very fond of suddenly recalling that every gift is only a commission, which, in order to fulfill, one cannot but swim against the stream.

Earrings to all sisters.

If the recipient discloses the gift he has made, he is happy, if the giver is sorry.

Lingual significant quotes about the gift

Money is the best gift.

Give a woman a million scarlet roses and she will say that she needs one, but white.

The letter is written and sent as a kind of gift.

On you, God, that we do not fit.

I give gifts to my mother, but I think about.

A sensitive soul is a fatal gift from heaven. The one who is endowed with it becomes a plaything of the elements.

If you want to lose a friend, give him an expensive gift.

Life is the best birthday present.

For other women, a bouquet of roses is not enough: they still demand that the man change the water in the vase.

We willingly accept everything that is presented out of a feeling of love, because it is the same as receiving a gift from ourselves; but we reject the gift of someone who considers himself entitled to be a benefactor.

Often, the gift of the gods is God's punishment.

The most modest gift can delight, but provided that the donor's resources are also small. However wealthy person must give a little more than prudence dictates. He who does not give too much gives too little. (A. Maurois)
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Every gift, even the smallest one, becomes a great gift if you give it with love. (W. Walcott)
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A gift chosen with love is immediately recognized by the desire to guess the taste of the addressee, by the originality of the idea, by the very manner of presenting the gift. (A. Maurois)
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Give generously only when you know that you are giving to the good. (Cato)

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Only accept gifts from people who are authorized to give them. (F. Arnault)
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A long hope is sweeter than a quick surprise. (I. Richter)
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The one who donates his heart will never refuse to donate money. (T. Fuller)
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A gift presented with a smile is doubly valuable. (T. Fuller)
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Who knows how to give, he knows how to live. (French proverb)
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He who has flowers in his hands cannot do bad things. (V. Soloukhin)
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Gifts like good advice, bring joy to the giver. (E. Herriot)
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Nothing stirs up a wife's suspicions like an unexpected gift from her husband. (Unknown author)
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A book is the best gift, but a gift is better than a book. (Zhanna Golonogova)
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Having come to the conviction that "there is nothing in the world that would be worthy of her!", The man offers himself. (S. Tracy)
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It's nice to be remembered, but often it's cheaper to be forgotten. (F. Hubbard)
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Friendship is based on small gifts, love on large ones. (J. Ipohorskaya)
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Why is it so difficult to buy a gift that looks as much as it actually costs? (J. Ipohorskaya)
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Birthday gifts fall into two categories: those we don’t like and those we don’t receive. (Unknown author)
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The perfect gift for a man who has everything is a woman who knows what to do with it all. (Unknown author)
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The best gift for a golden wedding is a scene of jealousy. (Unknown author)
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If you liked the gift, then you gave part of your soul. (Japanese wisdom)
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A compliment, like a piece of jewelry: it testifies not only to the merits of the gifted person, but also to the taste of the giver. (P. Gaudin)
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A gift shop is a place where there are many gifts and where you are horrified at the thought that one of them could be given to you. (Unknown author)
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Should a gentleman erase the price of a gift if he makes a gift in cash? (K. Melikhan)
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Gifts are received by the one who has something to give. (B. Brzezinski)
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Buy gifts for a little more than you can afford. (A. Maurois)
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Each gift from a friend is a wish for happiness. (R. Bach
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When a person retires and can afford not to keep track of the time, colleagues give him a watch. (R. Sherriff)
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Perhaps the cheapest way to cure a man of drunkenness is to give him a car (R. Podlevsky)
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There are three kinds of gifts: expensive, not so much, and a book. (Unknown author)
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Give your girlfriends the same perfume as your wives. Wives have an exceptional nose. (Nadine Rothschild)
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Useful gifts are best. Let's say I gave him handkerchiefs, and he gave me a mink coat. (B. Bardot)
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You should not give a woman anything that she could not wear in the evening. (Unknown author)
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Name days are arranged so that our friends can get rid of unnecessary things that they received for their own name days. (Unknown author)

A gift is not dear, love is dear.

Happiness is a waste of yourself on the creation of your own hands, which will live on after your death.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is scarcely a higher of pleasure than the pleasure of creating.

Gogol N.V.

What difference does it make who is stronger, who is smarter, who is more beautiful, who is richer? After all, in the end, it only matters whether you are a happy person or not.

Happy is not the one who receives the gift, but the one who makes the gift.

Chinese wisdom

A gift is NOT a gift unless it is given free of charge,

and love is NOT love if it is given conditionally.

Whoever is scolded is not given anything.

A good gift, warms the soul.

A real gift starts with the soul.
Leonid Sukhorukov

The gift of the gift awaits.

Give - do not reproach.

From someone who is not nice, and the gift is hateful.

The expensive present is not begged.

And a camel is a gift, and a button is a gift.

The friendliness of the face is an additional gift.

A free stripe is better than a purchased strap.

Friendship is based on small gifts, love on large ones.

Yanina Ipohorskaya

When God wants to send you a gift, he wraps it up in a problem. And what in big problem he wraps it, the bigger the gift is hidden under this wrapper ...

The most valuable gifts are put in an envelope ... and taken out of the hospital!)

There is nothing to give - give attention.

Money is the best gift. Everything else is too expensive.

Birthdays are nice, but deadly in high doses.

Barely glancing at the bouquet, he determined: It smells like fifty.

Emil the Meek

The perfect gift: a thing that a woman can exchange in a store even a month later.

Name days are arranged so that our friends can get rid of unnecessary things that they received for their own name days.

For other women, a bouquet of roses is not enough: they still demand that the man change the water in the vase.

Janusz Goudin

The purchased chicken is cheaper than the donated one.

Friendship is based on small gifts, love on large ones.

Yanina Ipohorskaya

Nothing stirs up a wife's suspicions like an unexpected gift from her husband.

Memory is what tells us that yesterday was our wife's birthday.

Mario rocco

A poster in a flower shop window: "Smoking and forgetting your wife's birthday is extremely dangerous to health."

Birthday gifts fall into two categories: those we don’t like and those we don’t receive.

Gifts, like good advice, bring joy to the giver.

Edouard Herriot

Why is it so difficult to buy a gift that looks as much as it actually costs?

Yanina Ipohorskaya

Having come to the conviction that "there is nothing in the world that would be worthy of her!", The man offers himself.

Spencer Tracy

It's nice to be remembered, but often it's cheaper to be forgotten.

Frank Hubbard

The surest way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it at least once.

Joseph Kossman

Middle age: When all you want on your birthday is not to be reminded of it.

Tact: Knowing how to tell guests that a birthday is over four hours ago.

Yanina Ipohorskaya

Only a fool can celebrate the years of approaching death.

George Bernard Shaw

A good husband never remembers his wife's age, but he always remembers her birthday.

Jacques Odiberti

I never enjoyed flowers as a gift, and if I ever bought flowers, then either in the name of someone (violets - Parma - Duke of Reichstadt, etc.) or immediately, without reaching home, brought it to someone.

Flowers in a pot must be watered, worms removed from them, there is more dirty trick than joy, flowers in a glass - since I will certainly forget to change the water - give off a disgusting smell and, thrown into the stove (I throw everything into the stove!), Do not burn.

If you want to make me happy, write me letters, give me books about everything, rings - whatever you like - only silver and large! - a calico on a dress (better than a pink one!) - only, gentlemen, not flowers!

Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva

It's time to stop waiting for unexpected gifts from life, and make life yourself.

Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

A gift chosen with love is immediately recognized by the desire to guess the taste of the addressee, by the originality of the idea, by the very manner of presenting the gift.

André Maurois

Make gifts a little more expensive than you can afford.

André Maurois

Women always give men stunning surprises.

O.Henry

A person is only able to truly bestow upon another, when at the same time he feels that he will be gifted too.

Jerzy Andrzejewski

We love the very fact of giving more than those to whom we give.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Democritus

A gift is not a gift if it is not given free of charge, and love is not love if it is given with conditions.

Adam Jackson

Money is a gift that suits everyone in size.

They usually steal what is needed, and give what is not needed.

Konstantin Melikhan

People rarely read the books they were given.

Samuel Johnson

Gifts, like good advice, bring joy to the giver.

Edouard Herriot

In childhood, every new day is a find, in old age - a gift.

Ilya Shevelev

A gift is given to a person in order to bring him closer, and alms are given in order to get rid of him.

Hebrew saying

The greatest value is the time given to us.
Valery Mironov

Nothing can be given so generously as hope.

Anatole France

Only a gift for no reason is a real gift.

Erian Schultz

Christmas is the season of exchanging things you can't afford for things you don't need.

Andrey Kozak

Life is a gift we didn't ask for.

Alfred Konar

We give flowers to a woman

A star from heaven, a spinning ball

And we go with her to you ...

And then we give very little.

Igor Mironovich Guberman

It is impossible for a woman to give too many flowers, and too many toys for a child.

The most wonderful gift given to people after wisdom is friendship.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The most blessed and desirable gift is when the giver remains nameless.

Moses Maimonides (Moshe Ben Maimon)

Give him the whole world, and he will require more wrapping paper.

Julien de Falkenare

They do not look at a given horse's teeth.

Russian folk proverb

They are more willing to give to the rich than to lend to the poor.

Jean Petit-Senne

Take everything that would not happen to you in life as a gift that you make to yourself.

Olga Anina

You have to be poor to know the luxury of giving.

Thomas Sterez Eliot

That gift is considered a true gift,

Which is given, as it should give,

Give free of charge, in the right place,

In due time and in due person.

Hitopadesha

Pleasant is the gift that anticipates the request.

Antique aphorism

Those who are stingy with gifts are generous with promises.

Phaedrus

What is bought is cheaper than a gift.

Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra

You give little when you give with what you have. When you give a part of yourself, it is a sincere gift.

Gibran Kahlil Gibran

If you can make a gift, then do not hesitate with it, remembering that circumstances are changeable.

Democritus

If I could give a present to a newborn, I would choose only one thing: good character.

Agatha Christie

Creating is better than destroying, and giving is better than receiving.

Konstantin Schemelinin

And even the president wants to get a present for his birthday.

Anna Vasilioglo

The blind man will not thank you for the mirror.

Thomas Fuller

Any gift is good, that is not money, it is presented to you.

Ivan Masalitin (Marko)

The best gift for a woman is a child.

Alexander Minchenkov

God gave life. Now life is a surprise.

Evgeny Khankin

You, of course, are not a gift, but holidays are not every day.

Evgeny Khankin

They don't look a Trojan horse in the mouth.

Konstantin Kushner

As soon as humanity acquired a culture, it rushed to give each other gifts for different occasions. Sometimes with meaning, sometimes just like that. So the collective experience of humanity in this matter, wow!

  1. The giver is as pleasant to look at as the gift itself.
  2. Those who are stingy with gifts are generous with promises.
  3. To please the heart, it doesn't matter whether the gift is small or large.
  4. A swan feather was sent a thousand miles away: a gift is light, but attention is dear.
  5. The price of the gift is not asked.
  6. And a camel is a gift, and a button is a gift.
  7. A gift is not a purchase: not a hayat, but praise.
  8. At home, it's not hunger, but the gift is dear.
  9. The expensive present is not begged.
  10. A donated kopeck is more expensive than a begged ruble.
  11. And a small gift is not a burden.
  12. We willingly accept everything that is presented out of a feeling of love, because it is the same as receiving a gift from ourselves; but we reject the gift of someone who considers himself entitled to be a benefactor.
  13. One and the same gift after the service is the repayment of the debt, before it is a favor.
  14. The purchased chicken is cheaper than the donated one.
  15. Gifts deserve gratitude and oblige to her.
  16. The gift of the gift awaits.
  17. To accept gifts is to give away.
  18. No gift - no gift.
  19. They catch birds with nets, and girls with gifts.
  20. So-called generosity is usually based on vanity, which is more precious to us than anything we give.
  21. A free stripe is better than a purchased strap.
  22. They don't look a free horse in the mouth.
  23. Tobacco is good for nothing, but if you buy it with money it is green.
  24. A book is the best gift, but a gift is better than a book.
  25. As a rule, a horseshoe is given for good luck in such a way that you absolutely do not need a horse.
  26. If your wife gives you a tie for no reason, then she doesn't like the new mink coat.
  27. To someone who does not need anything, most often they give something that no one needs.
  28. How poorly our friends know us can sometimes be judged by the gifts we receive from them.
  29. Than more expensive gift, the better it will be remembered if it turns out to be completely useless.
  30. Money is the best gift. Everything else is too expensive.
  31. Money is a gift that fits everyone.
  32. Telling everyone about a gift made is to demand it back.
  33. If the recipient tells about the gift he has made, he is happy, if the giver is sorry.
  34. Better not give, but after measles!
  35. It is very unfair not to accept gifts from anyone, but it is very bad to greedily accept everything.
  36. The true value of a gift lies in the ability to convey its warmth.
  37. Every gift, even the smallest one, becomes a great gift if you give it with love.
  38. Gifts, like good advice, bring joy to the giver.
  39. A gift presented with a smile is doubly valuable.
  40. The way you give is worth the gifts themselves.
  41. The character of the giver is better defined by the way the gifts are presented than by the nature of the gifts themselves.
  42. The gift is not expensive for the price, but for the giver.
  43. Whom you love, you yourself give, but do not love, and you will not receive from him.
  44. Kuma is not cute - and the gifts are hateful.
  45. For whom the heart hurts, the hand gives.
  46. What is the gift - you decide. It all depends only on how you take it.
  47. Three things make up the virtues of a gift: feeling, appropriateness, and the way it is presented.
  48. A gift chosen with love is immediately recognized by the desire to guess the taste of the addressee, by the originality of the idea, by the very manner of presenting the gift.
  49. The value of a gift is determined by its relevance rather than price.
  50. Each gift from a friend is a wish for happiness.

So, what does folk wisdom tell us? About what is not so important, whether you have a small or large gift, like who and on what occasion it is given. Careful selection of a present that suits the tastes and interests of the person being gifted will better express your sympathy than even a very expensive but faceless item.

This is what we have been learning for two years in this blog - giving gifts with a smile! Stay with us, we will together increase the number of smiles in the world.