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| God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded | | Seneca | |
| He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie. | | Anais Nin | |
| Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. | | Buddha | |
| How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered. | | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it. | | François de la Rochefoucauld | |
| I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself | | Mae West | |
| I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find some one quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born | | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life. | | Anatole France | |
| I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity. | | Eleanor Roosevelt | |
| If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself. | | Charles M. Schulz | |
| Inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination | | Benjamin Disraeli | |
| Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. | | Albert Einstein | |
| Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy | | Seneca | |
| Like clouds and wind without rain is a man who boasts of gifts he does not give | | Bible | |
| MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought | | Winston Churchill | |
| Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration | | Niccolo Machiavelli | |
| Now, Sir, it is impossible for serious men, to whom God has given the divine gift of reason, and who employs that reason to reverence and adore the God that gave it, it is I say, impossible for such a man to put confidence in a book that abounds with | | Thomas Paine | |
| Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men | | Lord Byron | |
