GAVE may refer to:
- Gave (Melgaço), a parish in Portugal
- Gave (placename element), a French word meaning torrential river in the west Pyrenees
- Gastric antral vascular ectasia (GAVE), a medical condition
- Gabinete de Avaliação Educacional (GAVE), an institution responsible for monitoring education in Portugal
Famous quotes containing the word gave:
“In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in
a lordly dish.
She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen’s
hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sis’e-ra, she smote off his
head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.”
—Bible: Hebrew Judges (l. V, 25–26)
“With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away.”
—Francis Aungier, Pakenham, 7th Earl Longford (b. 1905)