But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills,
And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me,
And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d
To dwell in presence of immortal youth,
Immortal age beside immortal youth,
And all I was, in ashes.
- Tithonus
Tags: beauty death youth gifts gods immortality
Let me go: take back thy gift:
Why should a man desire in any way
To vary from the kindly race of men,
Or pass beyond the goal of ordinance
Where all should pause, as is most meet for all?
...Why wilt thou ever scare me with thy tears,
And make me tremble lest a saying learnt,
In days far-off, on that dark earth, be true?
‘The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.’
- Tithonus
Tags: death destiny gifts gods immortality
A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.
Thomas à KempisThanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.
Erma BombeckTags: mothers gifts boxes cardboard recycling
You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you.
Audrey HepburnTags: gifts
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Arthur Conan DoyleTags: talent sherlock-holmes genius gifts recognition mediocrity
Our talents are the gift that God gives to us... What we make of our talents is our gift back to God
Leo F. BuscagliaA gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
SenecaTags: gifts benefits intentions
What greater gift than the love of a cat.
Charles DickensNever look a gift horse in the mouth.
JeromeTags: common-sense gifts
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