Giving Quotes & Sayings
These giving quotes, sayings and quotations are from our famous quotes collection. Inspirational quotes, sayings and quotations.Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. - John W. Gardner
My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me. - Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett
Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life. - Charles Dickens
If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas. - Benjamin Franklin
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes-our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
All that this world knows of living lies in giving and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he loses, Friendship grows by what it uses. - Alexander Maclaren
The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do. - Leontyne Price
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men. [La., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt quam salutem hominibus dando] - Marcus Tullius Cicero