giving

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You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving -- and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it -- and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.

- Collier, Robert

2.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

- Carmichael, Amy

3.

The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

4.

Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th.

- Roy Blount Jr.

5.

Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.

- Johnson

6.

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

- Sam Levenson

7.

Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of carelessness, incapacity, or neglect.

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This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.

- Aristotle

9.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

- Carlyle, Thomas

10.

For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

- Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

11.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

- P.J. O'Rourke

12.

EARN as much as you can. SAVE as much as you can. INVEST as much as you can. GIVE as much as you can.

- Wellesly, Rev. John

13.

There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.

- Hill, Napoleon

14.

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.

- Carole Burnett

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Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we shall never inhabit true fiction; we are condemned to the imaginary and nostalgia for the future.

- Baudrillard, Jean

16.

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

- Johnson, Samuel

17.

On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - halftime.

18.

Gifts allow us to demonstrate exactly how little we know about a person. And nothing pisses a person off more than being shoved into the wrong pigeonhole.

- Pam Davis

19.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

- Murdoch, Iris

20.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

- Byron, Lord