Give you a reason on compulsion? If reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion. 1 Hen. IV., ii. 4.
Give your tongue more holiday than your hands or eyes. Rabbi Ben Azai.
Given a living man, there will be found clothes 40 for him; he will find himself clothes; but the suit of clothes pretending that it is both clothes and man— Carlyle.
Given a world of knaves, to educe an Honesty from their united action, is a problem that is becoming to all men a palpably hopeless one. Carlyle.
Given the men a people choose, the people itself, in its exact worth and worthlessness, is given. Carlyle.
Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade / To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, / Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy / To kings that fear their subjects' treachery. 3 Hen. VI., ii. 5.
Giving alms never lessens the purse. Sp. Pr.
Giving away is the instrument for accumulated 45 treasures; it is like a bucket for the distribution of the waters deposited in the bowels of a well. Hitopadesa.
Giving to the poor increaseth a man's store. Sc. Pr.
Gladiator in arena consilium capit—The gladiator is taking advice when he is already in the lists. Pr.