- 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
