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:
“Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks;
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.”
—Anonymous. Late 19th century ballad.
The quatrain refers to the famous case of Lizzie Borden, tried for the murder of her father and stepmother on Aug. 4, 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts. Though she was found innocent, there were many who contested the verdict, occasioning a prodigious output of articles and books, including, most recently, Frank Spiering’s Lizzie (1985)
“She gave high counsels. It was the privilege of certain boys to have this immeasurably high standard indicated to their childhood; a blessing which nothing else in education could supply.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I gave up before birth.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)