Famous quotes containing the word receive:
“Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“If you don’t understand it, Ladies and Gentlemen, it is because you are too decadent to receive it.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)
“We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. We can receive anything from love, for that is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow. We sometimes hate the meat which we eat, because there seems something of degrading dependence in living it.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)