A bad neighbor will give you a needle with no thread.~ Portuguese Proverb

After the fight both parties give each other a good smack.~ Japanese Proverb

A noisy cow gives little milk.~ Polish Proverb

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.~ Albert Einstein

Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it.~ English Proverb

Begin to weave and God will give the thread.~ German Proverb

Don’t give a child a name until after it is born.~ Netherlands Antillean Proverb

Don’t give cherries to pigs or advice to fools.~ Gaelic Proverb

Eat with the devil but give him a long spoon.~ Jamaican Proverb

Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.~ Persian Proverb

Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.~ Chinese Proverb

Forget the favors you have given; remember those received.~ Chinese Proverb

Fortune is fickle and soon asks back what he has given.~ Latin Proverb

Freedom is never given, it is won.~ Giving Quotes

Give a blind man eyes and he will ask for eyebrows.~ Georgian Proverb

Give a horse to the one who likes the truth so that on it he can escape.~ Armenian Proverb

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. ~ Chinese Proverb

Give an extra piece of cake to a stepchild.~ Korean Proverb

Give good and get good.~ Estonian Proverb

Give graciously — even an onion.~ Afghan Proverb

Give me good advice but don’t advise me not to do it.~ Hebrew Proverb

Give me wool and tomorrow you will have a sheep.~ Arabian Proverb

Give neither advice nor salt, until you are asked for it.~ English Proverb

Give nine, save ten.~ Iranian Proverb

Give your ears to words but do not give your words to ears.~ industani Proverb

Give your friend a pig and your enemy a peach.~ Italian Proverb

God did not give wings to scorpions.~ Mexican Proverb

God gave teeth; He will give bread.~ Lithuanian Proverb

God gives, but he doesn’t sell.~ Burundi Proverb

God gives all birds their food but does not drop it into their nests.~ Danish Proverb

God gives but does not lock the gate.~ Bulgarian Proverb

God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.~ Bambara Proverb

God gives the nuts, but He does not crack them.~ German Proverb

God gives to us according to the measure of our hearts.~ Iranian Proverb

God gives us milk but no jug.~ German Proverb

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.~ Plato quotes

Good people, like clouds, receive only to give away.~ Indian Proverb

Growing rice gives you more than poetry will. ~ Japanese Proverb

Hands that give also receive.~ Ecuadorian Proverb

Happiness does not give, it only lends.~ Danish Proverb

Hearts, like thieves, never give back lost things.~ Guatemalan Proverb

He who gives away his belongings, slowly becomes a beggar.~ Colombian Proverb

He who gives to me teaches me to give.~ Danish Proverb

Humor to a man is like a feather pillow. It is filled with what is easy to get but gives great comfort.~ Irish Proverb

If you can’t give any sugar then speak sweetly.~ Indian Proverb

If you give a man nuts then give him something to crack them with.~ Georgian Proverb

If you give away what you have, you will not yearn for what you see.~ Mexican Proverb

If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken. ~ Idries Shah

If you have, give; if you need, seek.~ Malawian Proverb

If you lend something you may lose it, but not if you give it.~ French Proverb

If your words are worthless, don’t give advice.~ Chinese Proverb

If you want to give a sick man medicine, let him first be really ill — so that he can see how well the medicine works.~ Nigerian Proverb

If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.~ Yiddish Proverb

I give a present to the mother but I think of the daughter.~ German Proverb

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are.~ Mexican Proverb

It is a greater gift to give than to receive.~ Indian Proverb

It is easier to give orders than to work.~ Lithuanian Proverb

It is not for the blind to give an opinion on colors.~ Italian Proverb

Lend everyone your ears, give a hand to your friends but give your lips only to a woman.~ Yiddish Proverb

Life itself cannot give you joy
Unless you really will it.
Life just gives you time and space
It’s up to you to fill it.~ Chinese Proverb

Man counts what he has refused, not what he has given. ~ Kikuyu Proverb

Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue; to the end we should hear and see more than we speak.~ Greek Proverb

Never ask God to give you anything; ask Him to put you where things are.~ Mexican Proverb

Never give a child a sword.~ Latin Proverb

No greater promisers than they who have nothing to give.~ Dutch Proverb

No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give.~ French Proverb

One can’t give a grasshopper to a child if one has not caught it yet.~ Malagasy Proverb

One does not give without a motive.~ Malian Proverb

Parents can give their children everything except good luck.~ Yiddish Proverb

People give, but don’t be in a hurry to take.~ Cambodian Proverb

Teeth placed before the tongue give good advice.~ Italian Proverb

The God who gave us teeth will also give us bread.~ Czech Proverb

The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch.~ Catherine Hall

The barking dog gives you no power — it gives you fear.~ Malagasy Proverb

The best advice one can give to the hungry is bread.~ Italian Proverb

The bone given to you by the king is meat.~ Namibian Proverb

The chicken that crows the loudest does not always give the biggest eggs.~ French Proverb

The child hates the one who gives him all he wants.~ African Proverb

The devil gives even rich men presents.~ Romanian Proverb

The empty gives way to the full.~ Palestinian Proverb

The giver should forget, but the receiver should remember forever.~ Polish Proverb

The hand that gives is also the one that receives.~ Iranian Proverb

The man who gives little with a smile gives more than the man who gives much with a frown. ~ Jewish Proverb

The more you give in, the more you have to give in.~ Latin Proverb

The old pipe gives the sweetest smoke.~ Irish Proverb

The wise man who does not put his knowledge into practice is like a bee that gives no honey.~ Iranian Proverb

They who give have all things; they who withhold have nothing.~ Hindu Proverb

Thunder clouds do not always give rain.~ Armenian Proverb

To a quick question give a slow answer.~ Italian Proverb

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving. ~ Max Beerbohm

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.~ William R. Alger

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. ~ Seneca
Whatever your uncle gives you, take.~ Lebanese Proverb

What you keep rots; what you give flourishes.~ French Proverb

When God gives a child, he also gives the clothing.~ Estonian Proverb

When a bald man dies the mourners give him curly hair as a present.~ Kurdish Proverb

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. ~ Jewish Proverb

When someone gives you a drop of water reward him with a never ending source.~ Chinese Proverb

When someone offends you, you haven’t given him enough love. ~ Japanese Proverb

When the giver comes, the gate opens by itself.~ German Proverb

When you take a knife away from a child, give him a piece of wood instead. ~ Kenyan Proverb

Where God gives hard bread He also gives sharp teeth.~ German Proverb

Who gives, has.~ Lithuanian Proverb

Who gives to me, teaches me to give.~ Dutch Proverb

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. ~ Author Unknown

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. ~ Kahlil Gibran