G.
Gäb es keine Narren, so gäb es keine Weisen—Were there no fools, there would be no wise men. Ger. Pr.
Gaieté de cœur—Gaiety of heart. Fr. 15
Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair. Chapin.
Gaiety is the soul's health; sadness is its poison. Stanislaus.
Gaiety overpowers weak spirits; good-humour recreates and revives them. Johnson.
Gaiety pleases more when we are assured that it does not cover carelessness. Mme. de Staël.
Gain at the expense of reputation should be 20 called loss. Pub. Syr.
'Gainst the tooth of time / And rasure of oblivion. Meas. for Meas., v. 1.
Galea spes salutis—Hope is the helmet of salvation. M.
Galeatum sero duelli pœnitet—After donning the helmet it is too late to repent of war, i.e., after enlistment. Juv.
Gallantry thrives most in a court atmosphere. Mme. Necker.
Gallicè—In French. 25
Gallus in sterquilinio suo plurimum potest—The cock is proudest on his own dunghill. Pr.
Gambling is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality. Colton.
Gambling with cards, or dice, or stocks, is all one thing; it is getting money without giving an equivalent for it. Ward Beecher.
Game is a civil gunpowder, in peace / Blowing up houses with their whole increase. Herbert.
[Greek: Gamein ho mellôn eis metanoian erchetai]—He 30 who is about to marry is on the way to repentance. Gr. Pr.
Games of chance are traps to catch school-boy novices and gaping country squires, who begin with a guinea and end with a mortgage. Cumberland.
Gaming finds a man a cully and leaves him a knave. T. Hughes.
Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui; it is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment, but, like other stimuli, it produces indirect debility. Colton.
Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty. Marchioness d'Alembert.
Gammel Mands Sagn er sielden usand—An 35 old man's sayings are rarely untrue. Dan. Pr.
[Greek: Gamos gar anthrôpoisin euktaion kakon]—Marriage is an evil men are eager to embrace. Men.
Gang to bed wi' the lamb and rise wi' the laverock (lark). Sc. Pr.
Garçon—A boy; a waiter. Fr.
Garde à cheval—Horse-guards; mounted guard. Fr.
Garde à pied—Foot-guards. Fr. 40
Garde à vous—Attention. Fr.
Garde-chasse—Gamekeeper. Fr.
Garde du corps—A bodyguard. Fr.
Garde-feu—A fire-guard. Fr.
Garde-fou—A hand-rail. Fr. 45
Gardez—Keep it. Fr.
Gardez bien—Take care. Fr.
Gardez cela pour la bonne bouche—Keep that for a tit-bit. Fr. Pr.
Gardez la foi—Guard the faith. M.
Garments that have once a rent in them are 50 subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is a good man's name once tainted with just reproach. Bp. Hall.
Garrit aniles / Ex re fabellas—He relates old women's tales very apropos. Hor.
Gar Vieles lernt man, um es wieder zu vergessen; / Um an den Ziel zu stehen, muss man die Bahn durchmessen—Much we learn only to forget it again; to stand by the goal, we must traverse all the way to it. Rückert.
Gâteau et mauvaise coutume se doivent rompre—A cake and a bad custom are fated to be broken. Fr. Pr.
Gâter une chandelle pour trouver une épingle—To waste a candle to find a pin. Fr. Pr.
Gather gear by every wile that's justified by 55 honour; / Not for to hide it in a hedge, nor for a train attendant; / But for the glorious privilege of being independent. Burns.
Gather the rosebuds while ye may, / Old Time is still a-flying, / And this same flower that smiles to-day, / To-morrow will be dying. Herrick.
Gathering gear (wealth) is pleasant pain. Sc. Pr.
Gathering her brows like gathering storm, / Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. Burns.
Gato maullador nunca buen cazador—A mewing cat is never a good mouser. Sp. Pr.
Gaude, Maria Virgo—Rejoice, Virgin Mary.
Gaudeamus—Let us have a joyful time.
Gaudent prænomine molles / Auriculæ—His delicate ears are delighted with a title. Hor.
Gaudet equis, canibusque, et aprici gramine 5 campi—He delights in horses, and dogs, and the grass of the sunny plain. Hor.
Gaudet tentamine virtus—Virtue rejoices in being put to the test.
Gaudetque viam fecisse ruina—He rejoices at having made his way by ruin. Lucan, of Julius Cæsar.
Gave / His body to that pleasant country's earth, / And his pure soul unto his captain Christ, / Under whose colours he had fought so long. Rich. II., iv. 1.
Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, / Less pleasing when possest; / The tear forgot as soon as shed, / The sunshine of the breast. Gray.
Gear is easier gained than guided. Pr. 10
Geben ist Sache des Reichen—Giving is the business of the rich. Goethe.
Gebrade duijven vliegen niet door de lucht—Roasted pigeons don't fly through the air. Dut. Pr.
Gebratene Tauben, die einem im Maul fliegen?—Do pigeons fly ready-roasted into one's mouth? Ger. Pr.
Gebraucht der Zeit, sie geht so schnell von hinnen, / Doch Ordnung lehrt euch Zeit gewinnen—Make the most of time, it glides away so fast; but order teaches you to gain time. Goethe.
Gebt ihr ein Stück, so gebt es gleich in Stücken—If 15 your aim is to give a piece, be sure you give it in pieces. Goethe.
Gedanken sind zollfrei, aber nicht höllenfrei—Thoughts are toll-free, but not hell-free. Ger. Pr.
Gedenke zu leben—Think of living. Goethe.
Gedichte sind gemalde Fensterscheiben—Poems are painted window-panes, i.e., when genuine, they transmit heaven's light through a contracted medium coloured by human feeling and fantasy. Goethe.
Gedult gaat boven geleerdheid—Patience excels learning. Dut. Pr.
Gedwongen liefde vergaat haast—Love that is 20 forced does not last. Dut. Pr.
Geese are plucked as long as they have any feathers. Dut. Pr.
Gefährlich ist's, den Leu zu wecken, / Verderblich ist des Tigers Zahn; / Jedoch der schrecklichste der Schrecken, / Das ist der Mensch in seinem Wahn—Dangerous it is to rouse the lion, fatal is the tiger's tooth, but the most frightful of terrors is man in his self-delusion. Schiller.
Gefährlich ist's ein Mordgewehr zu tragen / Und auf den Schützen springt der Pfeil zurück—It is dangerous to carry a murderous weapon, and the arrow rebounds on the archer. Schiller.
Gefährlich ist's mit Geistern sich gesellen—To fraternise with spirits is a dangerous game. Goethe.
Gefährte munter kürzt die Meilen—Lively 25 companionship shortens the miles. Ger. Pr.
Gefühl ist alles; / Name ist Schall und Rauch / Umnebelnd Himmelsglut—Feeling is all; name is sound and smoke veiling heaven's splendour. Goethe.
Gegen grosse Vorzüge eines andern giebt es kein Rettungsmittel als die Liebe—To countervail the inequalities arising from the great superiority of one over another there is no specific but love. Goethe.
Gegner glauben uns widerlegen, wenn sie ihre Meinung wieder holen und auf die unsrige nicht achten—Our adversaries think they confuse us by repeating their own opinion and paying no heed to ours. Goethe.
Geheimnissvoll am lichten Tag / Lässt sich Natur des Schleiers nicht berauben, / Und was sie deinem Geist nicht offenbaren mag, / Das zwingst du ihr nicht ab mit Hebeln und mit Schrauben—In broad daylight inscrutable, Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws. Goethe.
Geld beheert de wereld.—Money rules the 30 world. Dut. Pr.
Geld ist der Mann—Money makes (lit. is) the man. Ger. Pr.
Geld im Beutel vertreibt die Schwermuth—Money in the purse drives away melancholy. Ger. Pr.
Gelegenheit macht den Dieb—Opportunity makes the thief. Ger. Pr.
Gelehrte Dummkopf—A learned blockhead; dryasdust.
[Greek: Gelôs akairos en brotois deinon kakon]—Ill-timed 35 laughter in men is a grievous evil. Men.
Gemeen goed, geen goed—Common goods, no goods. Dut. Pr.
Gemsen steigen hoch und werden doch gefangen—The chamois climb high, and yet are caught. Ger. Pr.
General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it man is blind; it is the eye of reason. Rousseau.
General infidelity is the hardest soil which the propagators of a new religion can have to work upon. Paley.
General suffering is the fruit of general misbehaviour, 40 general dishonesty. Carlyle.
General truths are seldom applied to particular occasions. Johnson.
Generally all warlike people are a little idle, and love danger better than travail. Bacon.
Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character. Goethe.
Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind; death and birth are the vesper and the matin bells that summon mankind to sleep, and to rise refreshed for new advancement. Carlyle.
Generosity during life is a very different thing 45 from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. Horace Mann.
Generosity is catching: and if so many escape it, it is somewhat for the same reason that countrymen escape the small-pox—because they meet with no one to give it to them. Lord Greville.
Generosity is the flower of justice. Hawthorne.
Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar. Goldsmith.
Generosity should never exceed ability. Cic.
Generosity, wrong placed, becomes a vice. 5 A princely mind will undo a private family. Fuller.
Generous souls are still most subject to credulity. Sir W. Davenant.
Geniesse, wenn du kannst, und leide, wenn du musst, / Vergiss den Schmerz, erfrische das Vergnügen—Enjoy if thou canst, endure if thou must; / forget the pain and revive the pleasure. Goethe.
Genius and virtue, like diamonds, are best plain set. Emerson.
Genius always gives its best at first, prudence at last. Lavater.
Genius begins great works, labour alone finishes 10 them. Joubert.
Genius believes its faintest presentiment against the testimony of all history, for it knows that facts are not ultimates, but that a state of mind is the ancestor of everything. Emerson.
Genius borrows nobly. Emerson.
Genius can never despise labour. Abel Stevens.
Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting. Ouida.
Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere 15 of freedom. J. S. Mill.
Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Emerson.
Genius does not need a special language; it newly uses whatever tongue it finds. Stedman.
Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can. Owen Meredith.
Genius easily hews out its figure from the block, but the sleepless chisel gives it life. Willmott.
Genius, even as it is the greatest good, is the 20 greatest harm. Emerson.
Genius ever stands with nature in solemn union, and what the one foretells the other will fulfil. Schiller.
Genius finds its own road and carries its own lamp. Willmott.
Genius grafted on womanhood is like to overgrow it and break its stem. Holmes.
Genius has privileges of its own; it selects an orbit for itself; and be this never so eccentric, if it is indeed a celestial orbit, we mere star-gazers must at last compose ourselves, must cease to cavil at it, and begin to observe it and calculate its laws. Carlyle.
Genius in poverty is never feared, because 25 Nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another. B. R. Haydon.
Genius invents fine manners, which the baron and the baroness copy very fast, and, by the advantage of a palace, better the instruction. They stereotype the lesson they have learned into a mode. Emerson.
Genius is always ascetic, and piety and love. Emerson.
Genius is always a surprise, but it is born with great advantages when the stock from which it springs has been long under cultivation. Holmes.
Genius is always consistent when most audacious. Stedman.
Genius is always impatient of its harness; its 30 wild blood makes it hard to train. Holmes.
Genius is always more suggestive than expressive. Abel Stevens.
Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over-influence. Emerson.
Genius is a nervous disease. De Tours.
Genius is ever a secret to itself. Carlyle.
Genius is ever the greatest mystery to itself. 35 Schiller.
Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please. I. M. Wise.
Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilises a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and whole, while most men remain partial and fragmentary. H. W. Mabie.
Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it. T. W. Higginson.
Genius is mainly an affair of energy. Matthew Arnold.
Genius is not a single power, but a combination 40 of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment; imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all. Whipple.
Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience. Buffon.
Genius is nothing but labour and diligence. Hogarth.
Genius is nothing more than our common faculties refined to a greater intensity. Haydon.
Genius is nothing more than the effort of the idea to assume a definite form. Fichte.
Genius is nourished from within and without. 45 Willmott.
Genius is only as rich as it is generous. Thoreau.
Genius is religious. Emerson.
Genius is that in whose power a man is. Lowell.
Genius is that power of man which by its deeds and actions gives laws and rules; and it does not, as used to be thought, manifest itself only by over-stepping existing laws, breaking established rules, and declaring itself above all restraint. Goethe.
Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the 50 miner who works and brings it out. Lady Blessington.
Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood. Coleridge.
Genius is the transcendent capacity of taking trouble first of all. Carlyle.
Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes. Simms.
Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light. Schopenhauer.
Genius loci—The presiding genius of the place.
Genius makes its observations in shorthand; talent writes them out at length. Bovee.
Genius may at times want the spur, but it stands as often in need of the curb. Longinus.
Genius melts many ages into one.... A work 5 of genius is but the newspaper of a century, or perchance of a hundred centuries. Hawthorne.
Genius must be born, and never can be taught. Dryden.
Genius of a kind is necessary to make a fortune, and especially a large one. La Bruyère.
Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it. Froude.
Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength. Hazlitt.
Genius should be the child of genius, and every 10 child should be inspired. Emerson.
Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull. Bulwer Lytton.
Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. Beecher.
Genius will reconcile men to much. Carlyle.
Genius works in sport, and goodness smiles to the last. Emerson.
Gens d'armes—Armed police. Fr. 15
Gens de bureau—Officials in a government office. Fr.
Gens de condition—People of rank. Fr.
Gens d'église—Churchmen. Fr.
Gens de guerre—Soldiers. Fr.
Gens de langues—Linguists. Fr. 20
Gens de lettres—Literary people. Fr.
Gens de lois—Lawyers. Fr.
Gens de même famille—Birds of a feather. Fr.
Gens de peu—The lower classes. Fr.
Gens togata—The nation with the toga, i.e., the 25 Roman.
Gentility is nothing else but ancient riches. Lord Burleigh.
Gentility without ability is waur (worse) than plain begging. Sc. Pr.
Gentle passions brighten the horizon of our existence, move without wearying, warm without consuming, and are the badges of true strength. Feuchtersleben.
Gentle words, quiet words, are, after all, the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing. W. Gladden.
Gentleman, in its primal, literal, and perpetual 30 meaning, is a man of pure race. Ruskin.
Gentleman is a term which does not apply to any station, but to the mind and the feelings in every station. Talfourd.
Gentlemanliness is just another word for intense humanity. Ruskin.
Gentlemen have to learn that it is no part of their duty or privilege to live on other people's toil; that there is no degradation in the hardest manual or the humblest servile labour, when it is honest. Ruskin.
"Gentlemen of the jury, you will now consider your verdict." Lord Tenterden's last words.
Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in 35 our manners. Blair.
Gentleness! more powerful than Hercules. Ninon de l'Enclos.
Gentleness, when it weds with manhood, makes a man. Tennyson.
Gently comes the world to those / That are cast in gentle mould. Tennyson.
Gently didst thou ramble round the little circle of thy pleasures, jostling no creature in thy way: for each one's sorrows thou hadst a tear; for each man's need thou hadst a shilling. Sterne's Uncle Toby.
Gently, gently touch a nettle, / And it stings 40 you for your pains; / Grasp it like a man of mettle, / And it soft as silk remains. Aaron Hill.
Genug ist über einer Sackvoll—Enough excels a sackful. Ger. Pr.
Genuine morality depends on no religion, though every one sanctions it and thereby guarantees to it its support. Schopenhauer.
Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion. Bovee.
Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle. Burke.
Genus et proavos et quæ non fecimus ipsi, / 45 Vix ea nostra voco—Birth, ancestry, and what we have ourselves not done, I would hardly call our own. Ovid.
Genus humanum superavit—He surpassed the human race in natural ability. Lucret.
Genus immortale manet, multosque per annos / Stat fortuna domus, et avi numerantur avorum—The race continues immortal, and through many years the fortune of the house stands steadfast, and it numbers grandsires of grandsires. Virg.
Genus irritabile vatum—The sensitive tribe of poets.
[Greek: Gêraskô d' aei polla didaskomenos]—Always learning many things the older I grow. Solon.
Gerechtigkeit ist mehr die männliche, Menschenliebe 50 mehr die weibliche Tugend—Justice is properly the virtue of the man, charity of the woman. Schopenhauer.
Geredt ist geredt, man kann es mit keinem Schwamme abwischen—What is said is said; there is no sponge that can wipe it out. Ger. Pr.
Germanicè—In German.
Gescheite Leute sind immer das beste Konversationslexikon—Clever people are always the best Conversations-lexicon. Goethe.
Geschichte ist eigentlich nichts anderes, als eine Satire auf die Menschheit—History is properly nothing else but a satire on humanity. C. J. Weber.
Geschrei macht den Wolf grösser als er ist—Fear 55 makes the wolf bigger than he is. Ger. Pr.
Gesellschaft ist die Grossmutter der Menschheit durch ihre Töchter, die Erfindungen—Society is the grandmother of humanity through her daughters, the inventions. C. J. Weber.
Gesetz ist mächtig, mächtiger ist die Noth—Law is powerful; necessity is more so. Goethe.
Gesetzlose Gewalt ist die furchbarste Schwäche—Lawless power is the most frightful weakness. Herder.
Gespenster sind für solche Leute nur / Die sehn sie wollen—Ghosts visit only those who look for them. Holtei.
Get a good name and go to sleep. Pr.
Get money, honestly if you can, but get money. Pr.
Get once into the secret of any Christian act, and you get practically into the secret of Christianity itself. Ed.
Get on the crupper of a good stout hypothesis, 5 and you may ride round the world. Sterne.
Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; / If not, by any means get wealth and place. Pope.
Get spindle and distaff ready, and God will send the flax. Pr.
Get thee to a nunnery! Ham., iii. 1.
Get to live; / Then live and use it; else it is not true / That thou hast gotten. Herbert.
Get what ye can and keep what ye hae. Sc. 10 Pr.
Get your enemies to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you. Pope.
Geteilte Freud' ist doppelt Freude—Joy shared is joy doubled. Goethe.
Gewalt ist die beste Beredsamkeit—Power is the most persuasive rhetoric. Schiller.
Gewinnen ist leichter als Erhalten—Getting is easier than keeping. Ger. Pr.
Gewöhne dich, da stets der Tod dir dräut, / 15 Dankbar zu nehmen, was das Leben beut—Accustom thyself, since death ever threatens thee, to accept with a thankful heart whatever life offers thee. Bodenstedt.
Gewöhnlich glaubt Mensch, wenn er nur Worte hört, / Es müsse sich dabei doch auch was denken lassen—Men generally believe, when they hear only words, that there must be something in it. Goethe.
Ghosts! There are nigh a thousand million walking the earth openly at noontide; some half-hundred have vanished from it, some half-hundred have arisen in it, ere thy watch ticks once. Carlyle.
Giant Antæus in the fable acquired new strength every time he touched the earth; so some brave minds gain fresh energy from that which depresses and crushes others. Murphy.
Gibier de potence—A gallows-bird. Fr.
Gie a bairn his will and a whelp his fill, an' 20 neither will do well. Sc. Pr.
Gie a beggar a bed, and he'll pay you with a louse. Sc. Pr.
Gie him tow enough and he'll hang himsel', i.e., give him enough of his own way. Sc. Pr.
Gie me a canny hour at e'en, / My arms about my dearie, O, / An' warl'ly cares an' warl'ly men / May a' gang tapsalteerie, O. Burns.
Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire! / That's a' the learning I desire; / Then though I drudge through dub and mire, / At pleugh or cart, / My Muse, though hamely in attire, / May touch the heart. Burns.
Gie me a peck o' oaten strae, / An' sell your wind 25 for siller. The cow to the piper who put her off with piping to her.
Gie the deil his due, an' ye'll gang till him. Sc. Pr.
Gie the greedy dog a muckle bane. Sc. Pr.
Gie wealth to some be-ledger'd cit, / In cent. per cent.; / But gie me real, sterling wit, / And I'm content. Burns.
Gie your heart to God and your awms (alms) to the poor. Sc. Pr.
Gie your tongue mair holidays than your head. 30 Sc. Pr.
Giebt es Krieg, so macht der Teufel die Hölle weiter—When war falls out, the devil enlarges hell. Ger. Pr.
Giebt's schönre Pflichten für ein edles Herz / Als ein Verteidiger der Unschuld sein, / Das Recht der unterdrückten zu beschirmen?—What nobler task is there for a noble heart than to take up the defence of innocence and protect the rights of the oppressed? Schiller.
Gierigheid is niet verzadigd voor zij den mond vol aarde heeft—Greed is never satisfied till its mouth is filled with earth. Dut. Pr.
Giff-gaff maks gude friends, i.e., mutual giving. Sc. Pr.
Gift of prophecy has been wisely denied to 35 man. Did a man foresee his life, and not merely hope it and grope it, and so by necessity and free-will make and fabricate it into a reality, he were no man, but some other kind of creature, superhuman or subterhuman. Carlyle.
Gifts are as gold that adorns the temple; grace is like the temple that sanctifies the gold. Burkett.
Gifts are often losses. It. Pr.
Gifts come from on high in their own peculiar forms. Goethe.
Gifts from the hand are silver and gold, but the heart gives that which neither silver nor gold can buy. Ward Beecher.
Gifts make their way through stone walls. 40 Pr.
Gifts weigh like mountains on a sensitive heart. Mme. Fee.
Gigni pariter cum corpore, et una / Crescere sentimus pariterque senescere mentem—We see that the mind is born with the body, that it grows with it, and also ages with it. Lucret.
Gin (if) ye hadna been among the craws, ye wadna hae been shot. Sc. Pr.
Giovine santo, diavolo vecchio—A young saint, an old devil. It. Pr.
Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, / Suffering 45 yet hoping all things. Mrs. Hemans.
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be. Goethe.
Give a boy address and accomplishments, and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes. Emerson.
Give a dog an ill name and hang him. Pr.
Give a hint to a man of sense and consider the thing done. Pr.
Give alms, that thy children may not ask 50 them. Dan. Pr.
Give a man luck and throw him into the sea. Pr.
Give ample room and verge enough. Gray.
Give an ass oats, and it runs after thistles. Dut. Pr.
Give, and it shall be given to you. Jesus.
Give and spend, / And God will send. Pr. 55
Give and take. Pr.
Give a rogue rope enough, and he will hang himself. Pr.
Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging. Diderot.
Give every flying minute / Something to keep in store. Walker.
Give every man his due. Pr.
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; / 5 Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Ham., i. 3.
Give from below what ye get from above, / Light for the heaven-light, love for its love, / A holy soul for the Holy Dove. Dr. Walter Smith.
Give God the margin of eternity to justify Himself in. Haweis.
Give him an inch and he'll take an ell. Pr.
Give him a present! give him a halter. Mer. of Ven., ii. 2.
Give me again my hollow tree, / A crust of 10 bread, and liberty. Pope.
Give me a look, give me a face, / That makes simplicity a grace, / Robes loosely flowing, hair as free; / Such sweet neglect more taketh me, / Than all the adulteries of art; / They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. Ben Jonson.
Give me but / Something whereunto I may bind my heart; / Something to love, to rest upon, to clasp / Affection's tendrils round. Mrs. Hemans.
Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. Emerson.
Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds.... This idea has inspired the genius of Goldsmith, Burns, Cowper, and, in a newer time, of Goethe, Wordsworth, and Carlyle. Their writing is blood-warm. Emerson.
Give me my Romeo: and, when he shall die, / 15 Take him and cut him out in little stars, / And he will make the face of heaven so fine / That all the world will be in love with night, / And pay no homage to the garish sun. Rom. and Jul., iii. 2.
Give me that man / Who is not passion's slave, and I will wear him / In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of hearts. Ham., iii. 2.
Give me the avow'd, th' erect, the manly foe, / Bold I can meet, perhaps may turn, his blow; / But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, / Save, save, oh! save me from the candid friend. Canning.
Give me the eloquent cheek, where blushes burn and die. Mrs. Osgood.
Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe, and to utter freely, according to conscience, above all other liberties. Milton.
Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked 20 for it. Pr.
Give not that which is holy to the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine. Jesus.
Give only so much to one that you may have to give to another. Dan. Pr.
Give orders, but no more, and nothing will be done. Sp. and Port. Pr.
Give pleasure to the few; to please many is vain. Schiller.
Give ruffles to a man who wants a shirt. Fr. 25 Pr. (?)
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak, / Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break. Macbeth, iv. 3.
Give the devil his due. 1 Hen. IV., i. 2.
Give the devil rope enough and he will hang himself. Pr.
Give thy need, thine honour, and thy friend his due. Herbert.
Give thy thoughts no tongue, / Nor any unproportioned 30 thought his act. / Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. / The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, / Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; / But do not dull thy palm with entertainment / Of each new-hatch'd unfledged comrade. Ham., i. 3.
Give to a gracious message / An host of tongues; but let ill tidings tell / Themselves when they be felt. Ant. and Cleo., ii. 5.
Give to him that asketh of thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away. Jesus.
Give to the masses nothing to do, and they will topple down thrones and cut throats; give them the government here, and they will make pulpits useless, and colleges an impertinence. Wendell Phillips.
Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom. Sir P. Sidney.
Give unto me, made lowly wise, / The spirit of 35 self-sacrifice; / The confidence of reason give; / And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live. Wordsworth.
Give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he will be equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time; he will do it better; he will persevere longer. Carlyle.
Give way to your betters. Pr.
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.
Glänzendes Elend—Shining misery. Goethe.
Glasses and lasses are brittle ware. Sc. Pr.
Glaube nur, du hast viel gethan / Wenn dir Geduld gewöhnest an—Assure yourself you have accomplished no small feat if only you have learned patience. Goethe.
[Greek: Glauk' Athênaze]—Owls to Athens.
Glebæ ascriptus—Attached to the soil. 5
Gleiches Blut, gleiches Gut, und gleiche Jahre machen die besten Heirathspaare—Like blood, like estate, and like age make the happiest wedded pair. Ger. Pr.
Gleich sei keiner dem andern; doch gleich sei jeder dem Höchsten. Wie das zu machen? Es sei jeder vollendet in sich—Let no one be like another, yet every one like the Highest. How is this to be done? Be each one perfect in himself. Goethe.
Gleich und Gleich gesellt sich gern, sprach der Teufel zum Köhler—Like will to like, as the devil said to the charcoal-burner. Ger. Pr.
Gleichheit est immer das festeste Band der Liebe—Equality is the firmest bond of love. Lessing.
Gleichheit ist das heilige Gesetz der Menschheit—Equality 10 is the holy law of humanity. Schiller.
Gli alberi grandi fanno più ombra che frutto—Large trees yield more shade than fruit. It. Pr.
Gli amici legano la borsa con un filo di ragnatelo—Friends tie their purses with a spider's thread. It. Pr.
Gli uomini alla moderna, e gli asini all' antica—After the modern stamp men, and after the ancient, asses. It. Pr.
Gli uomini fanno la roba, e le donne la conservano—Men make the wealth and women husband it. It. Pr.
Gli uomini hanno gli anni che sentono, e le 15 donne quelli che mostrano—Men are as old as they feel, and women as they look. It. Pr.
Gli uomini hanno men rispetto di offendere uno che si facci amare che uno che si facci temere—Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear. Machiavelli.
Gloria in excelsis Deo—Glory to God in the highest.
Gloria vana florece, y no grana—Glory which is not real may flower, but will never fructify. Sp. Pr.
Gloria virtutis umbra—Glory is the shadow (i.e., the attendant) of virtue.
Gloriæ et famæ jactura facienda est, publicæ 20 utilitatis causa—A surrender of glory and fame must be made for the public advantage. Cic.
Gloriam qui spreverit, veram habet—He who despises glory will have true glory. Livy.
Glories, like glow-worms, afar-off shine bright, / But looked at near, have neither heat nor light. Webster.
Glorious men are the scorn of wise men, the admiration of fools, the idols of parasites, and the slaves of their own vaunts. Bacon.
Glory and gain the industrious tribe provoke; / And gentle dulness ever loves a joke. Pope.
Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a 25 beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and fruits. Vauvenargues.
Glory grows guilty of detested crimes. Love's L. Lost, iv. 1.
Glory is like a circle in the water, / Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, / Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught. 1 Hen. VI., i. 2.
Glory is safe when it is deserved; not so popularity; the one lasts like mosaic, the other is effaced like a crayon drawing. Boufflers.
Glory is so enchanting that we love whatever we associate with it, even though it be death. Pascal.
Glory is the fair child of peril. Smollett. 30
Glory is the unanimous praise of good men. Cic.
Glory long has made the sages smile, / 'Tis something, nothing, words, illusion, wind, / Depending more upon the historian's style / Than on the name a person leaves behind. Byron.
Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts—both to an extreme. Shenstone.
Glück auf dem Weg—Good luck by the way. Ger. Pr.
Glück macht Mut—Luck inspires pluck. Goethe. 35
Glück und Weiber haben die Narren lieb—Fortune and women have a liking for fools. Ger. Pr.
Glücklich, glücklich nenn' ich den / Dem des Daseins letzte Stunde / Schlägt in seiner Kinder Mitte—Happy! happy call I him the last hour of whose life strikes in the midst of his children. Grillparzer.
Glücklich wer jung in jungen Tagen, / Glücklich wer mit Zeit gestählt, Gelernt des Lebens Ernst zu tragen—Happy he who is young in youth, happy who is hardened as steel with time, has learned to bear life's earnestness. Puschkin.
Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart as well as the pocket. Marcus Antoninus.
Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities 40 and the fountain of all our diseases. As a lamp is choked by a superabundance of oil, a fire extinguished by an excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by intemperate diet. Burton.
Gluttony kills more than the sword. Pr.
Gluttony, where it prevails, is more violent, and certainly more despicable, than avarice itself. Johnson.
Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite / The man that mocks at it and sets it light. Rich. II., i. 3.
Gnats are unnoticed whereso'er they fly, / But eagles gazed upon by every eye. Shakespeare.
[Greek: Gnôthi seauton]—Know thyself. 45
Go deep enough, there is music everywhere. Carlyle.
Go down the ladder when thou marriest a wife; go up when thou choosest a friend. Rabbi Ben Azai.
Go, miser, go; for lucre sell thy soul; / Truck wares for wares, and trudge from pole to pole. / That men may say, when thou art dead and gone: / "See what a vast estate he left his son!" Dryden.
Go, poor devil, get thee gone; why should I hurt thee? This world, surely, is wide enough to hold both thee and me. Uncle Toby to the fly that had tormented him, as he let it out by the window.
Go to Jericho and let your beards grow. See 2 Sam. x. 5.
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. Bible.
Go to your bosom; / Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know / That's like my brother's fault; if it confess / A natural guiltiness, such as his is, / Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue / Against my brother's life. Meas. for Meas., ii. 2.
Go where you may, you still find yourself in 5 a conditional world. Goethe.
Go whither thou wilt, thou shalt find no rest but in humble subjection to the government of a superior. Thomas à Kempis.
Go, wondrous creature, mount where science guides. / Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides; / Instruct the planets in what orbs to run, / Correct old Time, and regulate the sun; / Go, teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule, / Then drop into thyself and be a fool. Pope.
Go you and try a democracy in your own house. Lycurgus, to one who asked why he had not instituted a democracy.
Go, you may call it madness, folly; / You shall not chase my gloom away; / There's such a charm in melancholy, / I would not, if I could, be gay. Rogers.
Gobe-mouches—A fly-catcher; one easily gulled. 10 Fr.
God alone can properly bind up a bleeding heart. J. Roux.
God alone is true; God alone is great; alone is God. Laboulaye.
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, / And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, / A gauntlet with a gift in it. Mrs. Browning.
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it; the only choice is how. Ward Beecher.
God asks not what, but whence, thy work is: 15 from the fruit / He turns His eye away, to prove the inmost root. Trench.
God assists those who rise early in the morning. Sp. Pr.
God blesses still the generous thought, / And still the fitting word He speeds, / And truth, at His requiring taught, / He quickens into deeds. Whittier.
God blesses the seeking, not the finding. Ger. Pr.
God builds His temple in the heart and on the ruins of churches and religions. Emerson.
God comes at last, when we think He is 20 farthest off. Pr.
God comes in distress, and distress goes. Gael. Pr.
God comes to see us without bell. Pr.
God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands. Pr.
God created man in his own image. Bible.
God deals His wrath by weight, but His 25 mercy without weight. Pr.
God deceiveth thee not. Thomas à Kempis.
God defend me from the man of one book. Pr.
God desireth to make your burden light to you, for man hath been created weak. Koran.
God does not measure men by inches. Sc. Pr.
God does not pay every week, but He pays at 30 the end. Dut. Pr.
God does not require us to live on credit; He pays what we earn as we earn it, good or evil, heaven or hell, according to our choice. C. Mildmay.
God does not smite with both hands. Sp. Pr.
God does not weigh criminality in our scales. God's measure is the heart of the offender, a balance so delicate that a tear cast in the other side may make the weight of error kick the beam. Lowell.
God does with His children as a master does with his pupils; the more hopeful they are, the more work He gives them to do. Plato.
God enters by a private door into every individual. 35 Emerson.
God estimates us not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it. T. Edwards.
God gave thy soul brave wings; put not those feathers / Into a bed to sleep out all ill weathers. Herbert.
God gives all things to industry. Pr.
God gives birds their food, but they must fly for it. Dut. Pr.
God gives every bird its nest, but does not 40 throw it into the nest. J. G. Holland.
God gives his angels charge of those who sleep, / But He Himself watches with those who wake. Harriet E. H. King.
God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed. Saadi.
God gives strength to bear a great deal, if we only strive ourselves to endure. Hans Andersen.
God gives the will; necessity gives the law. Dan. Pr.
God gives us love. Something to love / He 45 lends us; but when love is grown / To ripeness, that on which it throve / Falls off, and love is left alone. Tennyson.
God giveth speech to all, song to the few. Dr. Walter Smith.
God grant you fortune, my son, for knowledge avails you little. Sp. Pr.
God hands gifts to some, whispers them to others. W. R. Alger.
God hangs the greatest weights on the smallest wires. Bacon.
God has been pleased to prescribe limits to His 50 own power, and to work out His ends within these limits. Paley.
God has commanded time to console the unhappy. Joubert.
God has connected the labour which is essential to the bodily sustenance with the pleasures which are healthiest for the heart; and while He made the ground stubborn, He made its herbage fragrant and its blossoms fair. Ruskin.
God has delegated Himself to a million deputies. Emerson.
God has given a prophet to every people in its own tongue. Arab Pr.
God has given nuts to some who have no teeth. Port. Pr.
God has given us wit and flavour, and brightness and laughter, and perfumes to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to charm his pained steps over the burning marl. Sydney Smith.
God has His little children out at nurse in many a home. Dr. Walter Smith.
God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. Ruskin.
God has made man to take pleasure in the use 5 of his eyes, wits, and body; and the foolish creature is continually trying to live without looking at anything, without thinking about anything, and without doing anything. Ruskin.
God has made sunny spots in the heart; why should we exclude the light from them? Haliburton.
God has not said all that thou hast said. Gael. Pr.
God has sunk souls in dust, that by that means they may burst their way through errors to truth, through faults to virtue, and through sufferings to bliss. Engel.
God hath anointed thee to free the oppressed and crush the oppressor. Bryant.
God hath given to man a short time here upon 10 earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends. Jeremy Taylor.
God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and you nickname God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance. Ham., iii. 1.
God hath many sharp-cutting instruments and rough files for the polishing of His jewels. Leighton.
God hath yoked to Guilt her pale tormentor, Misery. Bryant.
God help the children of dependence! Burns.
God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves. 15 Sc. Pr.
God help the rich folk, for the poor can beg. Sc. Pr.
God help the sheep when the wolf is judge. Dan. Pr.
God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow's head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel. Burns.
God helps the strongest. Ger. and Dut. Pr.
God helps those who help themselves. Pr. 20
God Himself cannot do without wise men. Luther.
God Himself cannot procure good for the wicked. Welsh Triad.
God is able to do more than man can understand. Thomas à Kempis.
God is a circle whose centre is everywhere, and its circumference nowhere. St. Augustine.
God is a creditor who has no bad debts. Ger. 25 Pr.
God is a good worker, but He loves to be helped. Basque Pr.
God is alpha and omega in the great world; endeavour to make Him so in the little world. Quarles.
God is always ready to strengthen those who strive lawfully. Thomas à Kempis.
God is a shower to the heart burnt up with grief, a sun to the face deluged with tears. Joseph Roux.
God is a sure paymaster. He may not pay 30 at the end of every week or month or year, but He pays in the end. Anne of Austria.
God is a tabula rasa, on which nothing more stands written than what thou thyself hast inscribed thereon. Luther.
God is at once the great original I and Thou. Jean Paul.
God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers. W. Penn.
God is goodness itself, and whatsoever is good is of Him. Sir P. Sidney.
God is glorified, not by our groans, but by our 35 thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer. Willmott.
God is great, and we know Him not; neither can the number of His years be searched out. Bible.
God is great in what is the greatest and the smallest. Herder.
God is greater than man. Bible.
God is His own interpreter. Cowper.
God is in heaven, and thou upon earth; therefore 40 let thy words be few. Bible.
God is in the generation of the righteous. Bible.
God is in the word "ought" and therefore it outweighs all but God. Joseph Cook.
God is kind to fou (drunk) folk and bairns. Sc. Pr.
God is light. St. John.
God is love. St. John. 45
God is more delighted in adverbs than in nouns, i.e., not in what is done so much as how it is done. Heb. Pr.
God is, nay, alone is; for with like emphasis we cannot say that anything else is. Carlyle.
God is not a man, that He should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath He said it, and shall He not do it? or hath He spoken, and shall He not make it good? Bible.
God is not found by the tests that detect you an acid or a salt. Dr. Walter Smith.
God is not so poor in felicities or so niggard in 50 His bounty that He has not wherewithal to furnish forth two worlds. W. R. Greg.
God is not to be known by marring His fair works and blotting out the evidence of His influences upon His creatures; not amidst the hurry of crowds and the crash of innovation, but in solitary places, and out of the glowing intelligences which He gave to men of old. Ruskin.
God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it dreads it. Colton.
God is patient, because eternal. St. Augustine.
God is spirit. Jesus.
God made all the creatures, and gave them our love and our fear, / To give sign we and they are His children, one family here. Browning.
God is the great composer; men are only the performers. Those grand pieces which are played on earth were composed in heaven. Balzac.
God is the light which, never seen itself, makes all things visible, and clothes itself in colours. Thine eye feels not its ray, but thine heart feels its warmth. Jean Paul.
God is the number, the weight, and the measure which makes the world harmonious and eternal. Renan.
God is the perfect poet, / Who in His person 5 acts His own creations. Browning.
God is the reason of those who have no reason. Renan.
God is where He was. Pr.
God is with every great reform that is necessary, and it prospers. Goethe.
God keep me from my friends; from my enemies I will keep myself. It. Pr.
God knows I'm no the thing I should be, / Nor 10 am I ev'n the thing I could be; / But twenty times I rather would be / An atheist clean, / Than under Gospel colours hid be, / Just for a screen. Burns.
God Konge er bedre end gammel Lov—A good king is better than an old law. Dan. Pr.
God loveth a cheerful giver. St. Paul.
God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man. Mer. of Ven., i. 2.
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas. Ward Beecher.
God made man upright, but they have sought 15 out many inventions. Bible.
God made me one man; love makes me no more / Till labour come, and make my weakness score. Herbert.
God made the country; man made the town. Cowper.
God made the flowers to beautify / The earth and cheer man's careful mood; / And he is happiest who hath power / To gather wisdom from a flower, / And wake his heart in every hour / To pleasant gratitude. Wordsworth.
God made us, and we admire ourselves. Sp. Pr.
God manifests Himself to men in all wise, 20 good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous souls. Lavater.
God may consent, but only for a time. Emerson.
God moves in a mysterious way / His wonders to perform; / He plants His footsteps in the sea, / And rides upon the storm. Cowper.
God must needs laugh outright, could such a thing be, to see His wondrous manikins here below. Hugo von Trimberg, quoted by Carlyle.
God narrows Himself to come near man, and man narrows himself to come near God. Ed.
God never forsakes His own. Pr. 25
God never imposes a duty without giving the time to do it. Ruskin.
God never made His work for man to mend. Dryden.
God never meant that man should scale the heavens / By strides of human wisdom.... He commands us in His Word / To seek Him rather where His mercy shines. Cowper.
God never pardons; the laws of the universe are irrevocable. God always pardons; sense of condemnation is but another word for penitence, and penitence is already new life. Wm. Smith.
God never sends mouths but He sends meat. 30 Dan. Pr.
God never shuts one door but He opens another. Irish Pr.
God offers to every man his choice between truth and repose. Emerson.
God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home. Joseph Roux.
God only opened His hand to give flight to a thought that He had held imprisoned from eternity. J. G. Holland.
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the 35 offence into everlasting forgetfulness. Ward Beecher.
God permits, but not for ever. Pr.
God said, Let there be light; and there was light. Bible.
God save the fools, and don't let them run out; for, without them, wise men couldn't get a living. Amer. Pr.
God save the mark. 1 Hen. IV., i. 3.
God send us some siller, for they're little 40 thought o' that want it. Sc. Pr.
God send you mair sense and me mair siller. Sc. Pr.
God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat. Tusser.
God sends meat and the devil sends cooks. It. Pr.
God sends nothing but what can be borne. It. Pr.
God should be the object of all our desires, 45 the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing power of our whole souls. Massillon.
God, sir, he gart kings ken that there was a lith in their neck. Boswell's father of Cromwell.
God stays long, but strikes at last. Pr.
God taketh an account of all things. Koran.
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. Sterne.
God the first garden made, and the first city 50 Cain. Cowley.
God, through the voice of Nature, calls the mass of men to be happy; He calls a few among them to the grander task of being severely but serenely sad. W. R. Greg.
God trusts every one with the care of his own soul. Sc. Pr.
God will accept your first attempt, not as a perfect work, but as a beginning. Ward Beecher.
God will not make Himself manifest to cowards. Emerson.
God will punish him who sees and him who is 55 seen. Eastern saying.
God, when He makes the prophet, does not unmake the man. Locke.
God works in moments. Fr. Pr.
God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers, and clouds and stars. Luther.
God's commandments are the iron door into Himself. To keep them is to have it opened, and His great heart of love revealed. S. W. Duffield.
God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself indeed in every finite form, but compromised by none. Henry James.
God's free mercy streameth / Over all the 5 world, / And His banner gleameth, / Everywhere unfurled. How.
God's goodness is the measure of His providence. More.
God's help is nearer than the door. Irish Pr.
God's in His heaven: / All's right with the world! Browning.
God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, / Rests never on the track till it reach / Delinquency. Browning.
God's men are better than the devil's men, and 10 they ought to act as though they thought they were. Ward Beecher.
God's mill grinds slow but sure. George Herbert.
God's mills grind slow, but they grind woe. Eastern saying.
God's providence is on the side of clear heads. Ward Beecher.
God's sovereignty is not in His right hand or His intellect, but His love. Ward Beecher.
Gods water over Gods akker laten loopen—Let 15 God's waters run over God's fields. Dut. Pr.
God's way of making worlds is to make them make themselves. Prof. Drummond.
Godfrey sent the thief that stole the cash away, / And punished him that put it in his way. Pope.
"Godlike men love lightning;" godless men love it not; shriek murder when they see it, shutting their eyes, and hastily putting on smoked spectacles. Carlyle.
Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. St. Paul.
Godliness with contentment is great gain. St. 20 Paul.
Godly souls have often interdicted the gratifications of the flesh in order to help their spirits in the Godward direction. John Pulsford.
Godt Haandværk har en gylden Grund—A good handicraft rests on a golden foundation. Dan. Pr.
Goed verloren, niet verloren; moed verloren, veel verloren; eer verloren, meer verloren; ziel verloren, al verloren—Money lost, nothing lost; courage lost, much lost; honour lost, more lost; soul lost, all lost. Dut. Pr.
Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence. Carlyle.
Going by railroad I do not consider as travelling 25 at all; it is merely "being sent" to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel. Ruskin.
Going to ruin is silent work. Gael. Pr.
Gold and diamonds are not riches. Ruskin.
Gold beheert de wereld—Gold rules the world. Dut. Pr.
Gold does not satisfy love; it must be paid in its own coin. Mme. Deluzy.
Gold, father of flatterers, of pain and care 30 begot, / A fear it is to have thee, and a pain to have thee not. Palladas.
Gold glitters most when virtue shines no more. Young.
Gold has wings which carry everywhere except to heaven. Rus. Pr.
Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant, accommodates itself to the meanest capacities, silences the loud and clamorous, and brings over the most obstinate and inflexible. Addison.
Gold is Cæsar's treasure, man is God's; thy gold hath Cæsar's image, and thou hast God's. Quarles.
Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his 35 defects from the world. Feltham.
Gold is the sovereign of all sovereigns. Pr.
Gold is tried in the fire, friendship in need. Dan. Pr.
Gold liegt tief im Berge, aber Koth am Wege—Gold lies deep in the mountain, but dirt on the highway. Ger. Pr.
Gold, like the sun, which melts wax and hardens clay, expands great souls and contracts bad hearts. Rivarol.
Gold that is put to use more gold begets. 40 Sh.
Gold thou may'st safely touch; but if it stick / Unto thy hands, it woundeth to the quick. Herbert.
Gold, worse poison to men's souls, / Doing more murder in this loathsome world, / Than these poor compounds that thou may'st not sell. Sh.
Gold's worth is gold. It. Pr.
Golden chains are heavy, and love is best! Dr. Walter Smith.
Golden lads and girls all must, / As chimney-sweepers, 45 come to dust. Cymb., iv. 2.
Gone for ever is virtue, once so prevalent in the state, when men deem a mischievous citizen worse than its bitterest enemy, and punish him with severer penalties. Cic.
Gone is gone; no Jew will lend upon it. Ger. Pr.
Good actions done in secret are the most worthy of honour. Pascal.
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. S. Smiles.
Good advice can be given, a good name cannot 50 be given. Turk. Pr.
Good advice / Is beyond all price. Pr.
Good advice may be communicated, but not good manners. Turk. Pr.
Good ale needs no wisp (of hay for advertisement). Sc. Pr.
Good and bad men are less so than they seem. Coleridge.
Good and evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions. Hobbes.
Good and evil will grow up in this world together; and they who complain in peace of the insolence of the populace must remember that their insolence in peace is bravery in war. Johnson.
Good and quickly seldom meet. Pr.
Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it. Emerson.
Good bees never turn drones. Pr. 5
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen, the more select the more enjoyable. A. B. Alcott.
Good bread needs baking. Pr. in Goethe.
Good-breeding carries along with it a dignity that is respected by the most petulant. Chesterfield.
Good-breeding differs, if at all, from high-breeding, only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own. Carlyle.
Good-breeding is benevolence in trifles, or the 10 preference of others to ourselves in the little daily occurrences of life. Chatham.
Good-breeding is surface Christianity. Holmes.
Good-breeding is the result of much good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others. Chesterfield.
Good-breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears least. Addison.
Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine. Emerson.
Good company and good discourse are the 15 very sinews of virtue. Izaak Walton.
Good company upon the road is the shortest cut. Pr.
Good counsel is no better than bad counsel, if it is not taken in time. Dan. Pr.
Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the giver's bosom. Goldsmith.
Good counsels observed are chains to grace. Fuller.
Good counsel tendered to fools rather provokes 20 than satisfies them. A draught of milk to serpents only increases their venom. Hitopadesa.
Good counsel without good fortune is a windmill without wind. Ger. Pr.
Good counsellors lack no clients. Meas. for Meas., i. 2.
Good courage breaks ill-luck. Pr.
Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers to make a fire next day. Sir T. Overbury.
Good discourse sinks differences and seeks 25 agreements. A. B. Alcott.
Good digestion wait on appetite, / And health on both. Macb., iii. 4.
Good example always brings forth good fruits. S. Smiles.
Good example is half a sermon. Ger. Pr.
Good fortune is the offspring of our endeavours, although there be nothing sweeter than ease. Hitopadesa.
Good gear goes in sma' book (bulk). Sc. Pr. 30
Good-humour and generosity carry the day with the popular heart all the world over. Alex. Smith.
Good-humour may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society. Thackeray.
Good hunters track closely. Dut. Pr.
Good husbandry is good divinity. Pr.
Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes 35 better. Emerson.
Good is best when soonest wrought, / Lingering labours come to nought. Southwell.
Good is good, but better carrieth it. Pr.
Good is never a something into which a man can be borne, but always a something born of the man, which he himself carries, and which does not carry him. Ed.
Good is not got without grief. Gael. Pr.
Good is the delay that makes sure. Port. 40 Pr.
Good judges are as rare as good authors. St. Evremond.
Good laws often proceed from bad manners. Pr.
Good leading makes good following. Dut. Pr.
Good luck comes by cuffing. Pr.
Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, 45 energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty. Lowell.
Good luck lies in odd numbers. Merry Wives, v. 1.
Good management is better than a good income. Port. Pr.
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. Emerson.
Good manners are part of good morals. Whately.
Good manners give integrity a bleeze, / When 50 native virtues join the arts to please. Allan Ramsay.
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company. Swift.
Good maxims are the germs of all excellence. Joubert.
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times. Ben Jonson.
Good mind, good find. Pr.
Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, / 55 Is the immediate jewel of their souls; / Who steals my purse, steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; / 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; / But he that filches from me my good name, / Robs me of that which not enriches him, / And makes me poor indeed. Othello, iii. 2.
Good-nature and good sense are usually companions. Pope.
Good-nature and good sense must ever join; / To err is human, to forgive divine. Pope.
Good-nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. Addison.
Good-nature is stronger than tomahawks. Emerson.
Good-nature is the beauty of the mind, and, 60 like personal beauty, wins almost without anything else. Hanway.
Good-nature is the very air of a good mind, the sign of a large and generous soul, and the peculiar soil in which virtue flourishes. Goodman.
Good-night, good-night; parting is such sweet sorrow / That I will say good-night till it be to-morrow. Rom. and Jul., ii. 2.
Good pastures make fat sheep. As You Like It, iii. 2.
Good people live far apart. Ger. Pr.
Good poetry is always personification, and 5 heightens every species of force by giving it a human volition. Emerson.
Good poets are the inspired interpreters of the gods. Plato.
Good qualities are the substantial riches of the mind, but it is good-breeding that sets them off to advantage. Locke.
Good reasons must of force give place to better. Jul. Cæs., iv. 3.
Good right needs good help. Dut. Pr.
Good-sense and good-nature are never separated, 10 though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Dryden.
Good-sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, / And though no science, fairly worth the seven. Pope.
Good shepherd, tell this youth what 'tis to love.... It is to be all made of sighs and tears.... It is to be all made of faith and service.... It is to be all made of fantasy, / All made of passion, and all made of wishes; / All adoration, duty, and observance; / All humbleness, all patience, and impatience; / All purity, all trial, all observance. As You Like It, v. 2.
Good sword has often been in poor scabbard. Gael. Pr.
Good take heed / Doth surely speed. Pr.
Good taste cannot supply the place of genius 15 in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be not to write at all. Mme. de Staël.
Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind. La Roche.
Good taste is the flower of good sense. A. Poincelot.
Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired. Mme. Girardin.
Good the more / Communicated more abundant grows. Milton.
Good things take time. Dut. Pr. 20
Good thoughts are no better than good dreams unless they be executed. Emerson.
Good to begin well, but better to end well. Pr.
Good to the heels the well-worn slipper feels / When the tired player shuffles off the buskin; / A page of Hood may do a fellow good / After a scolding from Carlyle or Ruskin. Lowell.
Good unexpected, evil unforeseen, / Appear by turns, as fortune shifts the scene; / Some rais'd aloft, come tumbling down amain / And fall so hard, they bound and rise again. Lord Lansdowne.
Good ware makes a quick market. Pr. 25
Good-will is everything in morals, but nothing in art; in art, capability alone is anything. Schopenhauer.
Good-will, like a good name, is got by many actions and lost by one. Jeffrey.
Good wine is a good familiar creature, if it be well used. Othello, ii. 3.
Good wine is its own recommendation. Dut. Pr.
Good wine needs no brandy. Amer. Pr. 30
Good wine needs no bush, i.e., advertisement. Pr.
Good women grudge each other nothing, save only clothes, husbands, and flax. Jean Paul.
Good words and no deeds. Pr.
Good words cool more than cold water. Pr.
Good words cost nothing and are worth much. 35 Pr.
Good words do more than hard speeches; as the sunbeams, without any noise, will make the traveller cast off his cloak, which all the blustering winds could not do, but only make him bind it closer to him. Leighton.
Good works will never save you, but you will never be saved without them. Pr.
Good writing and brilliant discourse are perpetual allegories. Emerson.
Goodman Fact is allowed by everybody to be a plain-spoken person, and a man of very few words; tropes and figures are his aversion. Addison.
Goodness and being in the gods are one; / He 40 who imputes ill to them makes them none. Euripides.
Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. Chapin.
Goodness is beauty in its best estate. Marlowe.
Goodness is everywhere, and is everywhere to be found, if we will only look for it. P. Desjardins.
Gorgons, and hydras, and chimæras dire. Milton.
Gossiping and lying go hand in hand. Pr. 45
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker. George Eliot.
Gott hilft nur dann, wenn Menschen nicht mehr helfen—God comes to our help only when there is no more help for us in man. Schiller.
Gott ist ein unaussprechlicher Seufzer, in Grunde der Seele gelegen—God is an unutterable sigh planted in the depth of the soul. Jean Paul.
Gott ist eine leere Tafel, auf der / Nichts weiter steht, als was du selbst / Darauf geschrieben—God is a blank tablet on which nothing further is inscribed than what thou hast thyself written thereupon. Luther.
Gott ist mächtiger und weiser als wir; darum 50 macht er mit uns nach seinem Gefallen—God is mightier and wiser than we; therefore he does with us according to his good pleasure. Goethe.
Gott ist überall, ausser wo er seinem Statthalter hat—God is everywhere except where his vicar is. Ger. Pr.
Gottlob! wir haben das Original—God be praised, we have still the original. Lessing.
Gott macht gesund, und der Doktor kriegt das Geld—God cures us, and the doctor gets the fee. Ger. Pr.
Gott mit uns—God with us. Ger.
Gott müsst ihr im Herzen suchen und finden—Ye must seek and find God in the heart. Jean Paul.
Gott schuf ja aus Erden den Ritter und Knecht. / Ein hoher Sinn adelt auch niedres Geschlecht—God created out of the clay the knight and his squire. A higher sense ennobles even a humble race. Bürger.
Gott-trunkener Mensch—A god-intoxicated man. Novalis, of Spinoza.
Gott verlässt den Mutigen nimmer—God never 5 forsakes the stout of heart. Körner.
Göttern kann man nicht vergelten; / Schön ist's, ihnen gleich zu sein—We cannot recompense the gods; beautiful it is to be like them. Schiller.
Gottes Freund, der Pfaffen Feind—God's friend, priest's foe. Ger. Pr.
Gottes ist der Orient, / Gottes ist der Occident, / Nord-und Südliches Gelände / Ruht im Friede seiner Hände—God's is the east, God's is the west; north region and south rests in the peace of his hands. Goethe.
Gottes Mühle geht langsam, aber sie mahlt fein—God's mill goes slow, but it grinds fine. Ger. Pr.
Göttliche Apathie und thierische Indifferenz 10 werden nur zu oft verwechselt—Divine indifference and brutish indifference are too often confounded. Feuchtersleben.
Goutte à goutte—Drop by drop. Fr.
Govern the lips as they were palace-doors, the king within; / Tranquil and fair and courteous be all words which from that presence win. Sir Edwin Arnold.
Government and co-operation are in all things the laws of life; anarchy and competition, the laws of death. Ruskin.
Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men.... Everybody knows that Government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs. Wendell Phillips.
Government began in tyranny and force, in 15 the feudalism of the soldier and the bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way like a thunderstorm against the organised selfishness of human nature. Wendell Phillips.
Government has been a fossil; it should be a plant. Emerson.
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Burke.
Government is a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All governing over-much kills the self-help and energy of the governed. Wendell Phillips.
Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people. H. Clay.
Government is the greatest combination of 20 forces known to human society. It can command more men and raise more money than any and all other agencies combined. D. D. Field.
Government must always be a step ahead of the popular movement (Bewegung). Count Arnim.
Government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abraham Lincoln.
Government of the will is better than increase of knowledge. Pr.
Government should direct poor men what to do. Emerson.
Governments exist only for the good of the 25 people. Macaulay.
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. Wendell Phillips.
Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men. Emerson.
Gowd (gold) gets in at ilka (every) gate except heaven. Sc. Pr.
Gowd is gude only in the hand o' virtue. Sc. Pr.
Goza tû de tu poco, mientras busca mas el 30 loco—Enjoy your little while the fool is in search of more. Sp. Pr.
Grace abused brings forth the foulest deeds, / As richest soil the most luxuriant weeds. Cowper.
Grace has been defined the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. Hazlitt.
Grace in women has more effect than beauty. Hazlitt.
Grace is a light superior to Nature, which should direct and preside over it. Thomas à Kempis.
Grace is a plant, where'er it grows / Of pure 35 and heavenly root; / But fairest in the youngest shows, / And yields the sweetest fruit. Cowper.
Grace is in garments, in movements, and manners; beauty in the nude and in forms. Joubert.
Grace is more beautiful than beauty. Emerson.
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom. Schiller.
Grace is the proper relation of the acting person to the action. Winckelmann.
Grace is to the body what good sense is to the 40 mind. La Roche.
Grace pays its respects to true intrinsic worth, not to the mere signs and trappings of it, which often only show where it ought to be, not where it really is. Thomas à Kempis.
Grace was in all her steps, heav'n in her eye, / In every gesture dignity and love. Milton.
Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease. Rousseau.
Gradatim—Step by step; by degrees.
Gradu diverso, via una—By different steps but 45 the same way.
Gradus ad Parnassum—A help to the composition of classic poetry.
Græcia capta ferum victorem cepit, et artes / Intulit agresti Latio—Greece, conquered herself, in turn conquered her uncivilised conqueror, and imported her arts into rusticated Latium. Hor.
Gram. loquitur; Dia. vera docet; Rhe. verba colorat; Mu. canit; Ar. numerat; Geo. ponderat; As. docet astra—Grammar speaks; dialectics teaches us truth; rhetoric gives colouring to our speech; music sings; arithmetic reckons; geometry measures; astronomy teaches us the stars.
Grammar knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hand make them obey. Molière.
Grammaticus Rhetor Geometres Pictor Aliptes / Augur Schœnobates Medicus Magus—omnia novit—Grammarian, rhetorician, geometrician, painter, anointer, augur, tight-rope dancer, physician, magician—he knows everything. Juv.
Grain of glory mixt with humbleness / Cures both a fever and lethargicness. Herbert.
Grand besoin a de fol qui de soi-même le fait—He has great need of a fool who makes himself one. Fr. Pr.
Grand bien ne vient pas en peu d'heures—Great 5 wealth is not gotten in a few hours. Fr.
Grande parure—Full dress. Fr.
Grandescunt aucta labore—They grow with increase of toil. M.
Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Shenstone.
Grandeur has a heavy tax to pay. Alex. Smith.
Grand parleur, grand menteur—Great talker, 10 great liar. Fr. Pr.
Grand venteur, petit faiseur—Great boaster, little doer. Fr. Pr.
Grant but memory to us, and we can lose nothing by death. Whittier.
Granted the ship comes into harbour with shrouds and tackle damaged; the pilot is blameworthy; he has not been all-wise and all-powerful; but to know how blameworthy, tell us first whether his voyage has been round the globe or only to Ramsgate and the Isle of Dogs. Carlyle.
Gran victoria es la que sin sangre se alcanza—Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed. Sp. Pr.
Grasp all, lose all. Pr. 15
Grass grows not on the highway. Pr.
Gratia naturam vincit—Grace overcomes Nature.
Grata superveniet quæ non sperabitur hora—The hour of happiness will come the more welcome when it is not expected. Hor.
Gratiæ expectativæ—Expected benefits.
Gratia gratiam parit—Kindness produces kindness. 20 Pr.
Gratia, Musa, tibi. Nam tu solatia præbes; / Tu curæ requies, tu medicina mali—Thanks to thee, my Muse. For thou dost afford me comfort; thou art a rest from my cares, a cure for my woes. Ovid.
Gratia placendi—The satisfaction of pleasing.
Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis—Thanks are justly due for things we have not to pay for. Ovid.
Gratior et pulchro veniens in corpore virtus—Even virtue appears more lovely when enshrined in a beautiful form. Virg.
Gratis—For nothing. 25
Gratis anhelans, multa agendo nihil agens—Out of breath for nothing, making much ado about nothing. Phæd.
Gratis asseritur—It is asserted but not proved.
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect. Rousseau.
Gratitude is a keen sense of favours to come. Talleyrand.
Gratitude is a species of justice. Johnson. 30
Gratitude is memory of the heart. (?)
Gratitude is never conferred but where there have been previous endeavours to excite it; we consider it as a debt, and our spirits wear a load till we have discharged the obligation. Goldsmith.
Gratitude is one of the rarest of virtues. Theodore Parker.
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul; and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant. H. Ballou.
Gratitude is the least of virtues, ingratitude 35 the worst of vices. Pr.
Gratitude is with most people only a strong desire for greater benefits to come. La Roche.
Gratitude once refused can never after be recovered. Goldsmith.
Gratitude which consists in good wishes may be said to be dead, as faith without good works is dead. Cervantes.
Gratis dictum—Said to no purpose; irrelevant to the question at issue.
Gratum hominem semper beneficium delectat; 40 ingratum semel—A kindness is always delightful to a grateful man; to an ungrateful, only at the time of its receipt. Sen.
Grau' Haare sind Kirchhofsblumen—Gray hairs are churchyard flowers. Ger. Pr.
Grau, teurer Freund, ist alle Theorie, / Und grün des Lebens goldner Baum—Gray, dear friend, is all theory, and green life's golden tree. Goethe.
Grave nihil est homini quod fert necessitas—No burden is really heavy to a man which necessity lays on him.
Grave paupertas malum est, et intolerabile, quæ magnum domat populum—The poverty which oppresses a great people is a grievous and intolerable evil.
Grave pondus illum magna nobilitas premit—His 45 exalted rank weighs heavy on him as a grievous burden. Sen.
Grave senectus est hominibus pondus—Old age is a heavy burden to man.
Graves, the dashes in the punctuation of our lives. S. W. Duffield.
Grave virus / Munditiæ pepulere—More elegant manners expelled this offensive style. Hor.
Graviora quædam sunt remedia periculis—Some remedies are worse than the disease. Pub. Syr.
Gravis ira regum semper—The anger of kings 50 is always heavy. Sen.
Gravissimum est imperium consuetudinis—The empire of custom is most mighty. Pub. Syr.
Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body, invented to cover the defects of the mind. La Roche.
Gravity is a taught trick to gain credit of the world for more sense and knowledge than a man is worth. Sterne.
Gravity is only the bark of wisdom, but it preserves it. Confucius.
Gravity is the ballast of the soul, which keeps 55 the mind steady. Fuller.
Gravity is the best cloak for sin in all countries. Fielding.
Gravity is the inseparable companion of pride. Goldsmith.
Gravity is twin brother to stupidity. Bovee.
Gravity, with all its pretensions, was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined it, viz., a mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind. Sterne.
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the light of a soft moon, silvering over the evening of life. Jean Paul.
Gray is all theory, and green the while is the golden tree of life. Goethe.
Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing.... 5 His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; you will seek all day ere you find them; and when you have them, they are not worth the search. Mer. of Ven., i. 1.
Great actions crown themselves with lasting bays; / Who well deserves needs not another's praise. Heath.
Great acts grow out of great occasions, and great occasions spring from great principles, working changes in society and tearing it up by the roots. Hazlitt.
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. He who is endowed with it may perform very good or very bad actions; all depends upon the principles which direct him. Napoleon.
Great art dwells in all that is beautiful; but false art omits or changes all that is ugly. Great art accepts Nature as she is, but directs the eyes and thoughts to what is most perfect in her; false art saves itself the trouble of direction by removing or altering whatever is objectionable. Ruskin.
Great attention to what is said and sweetness 10 of speech, a great degree of kindness and the appearance of awe, are always tokens of a man's attachment. Hitopadesa.
Great barkers are nae biters. Sc. Pr.
Great boast, small roast. Pr.
Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. H. Mann.
Great causes are never tried on their merits; but the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the partisans, and the contention is ever hottest on minor matters. Emerson.
Great countries are those that produce great 15 men. Disraeli.
Great cowardice is hidden by a bluster of daring. Lucan.
Great cry but little wool, as the devil said when he shear'd his hogs. Pr.
Great deeds cannot die; / They with the sun and moon renew their light, / For ever blessing those that look on them. Tennyson.
Great deeds immortal are—they cannot die, / Unscathed by envious blight or withering frost, / They live, and bud, and bloom; and men partake / Still of their freshness, and are strong thereby. Aytoun.
Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm. 20 Joseph Roux.
Great edifices, like great mountains, are the work of ages. Victor Hugo.
Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness. Goethe.
Great, ever fruitful; profitable for reproof, for encouragement, for building up in manful purposes and works, are the words of those that in their day were men. Carlyle.
Great evils one triumphs over bravely, but the little eat away one's heart. Mrs. Carlyle.
Great fleas have little fleas / Upon their backs 25 to bite 'em; / And little fleas have lesser fleas, / And so ad infinitum. Lowell.
Great folks have five hundred friends because they have no occasion for them. Goldsmith.
Great fools have great bells. Dut. Pr.
Great genial power consists in being altogether receptive. Emerson.
Great geniuses have always the shortest biographies. Emerson.
Great gifts are for great men. Pr. 30
Great God, I had rather be / A Pagan suckled in some creed outworn; / So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, / Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn. Wordsworth.
Great grief makes those sacred upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate. H. Greeley.
Great griefs medicine the less. Cymbeline, iv. 2.
Great haste makes great waste. Ben. Franklin.
Great honours are great burdens; but on 35 whom / They're cast with envy, he doth bear two loads. Ben Jonson.
Great joy is only earned by great exertion. Goethe.
Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great the man to whom all his plate is no more than earthenware. Sen.
Great is not great to the greater. Sir P. Sidney.
Great is self-denial! Life goes all to ravels and tatters where that enters not. Carlyle.
Great is song used to great ends. Tennyson. 40
Great is the soul, and plain. It is no flatterer, it is no follower; it never appeals from itself. Emerson.
Great is the strength of an individual soul true to its high trust; mighty is it, even to the redemption of a world. Mrs. Child.
Great is truth, and mighty above all things. Apocrypha.
Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man. Carlyle.
Great joy, especially after a sudden change 45 and revolution of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue. Fielding.
Great knowledge, if it be without vanity, is the most severe bridle of the tongue. Jeremy Taylor.
Great lies are as great as great truths, and prevail constantly and day after day. Thackeray.
Great lords have great hands, but they do not reach to heaven. Dan. Pr.
Great Mammon!—greatest god below the sky. Spenser.
Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy. Arist.
Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people. G. S. Hillard.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. Schopenhauer.
Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality. Emerson.
Great men are never sufficiently known but in 5 struggles. Burke.
Great men are not always wise. Bible.
Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges. T. W. Higginson.
Great men are sincere. Emerson.
Great men are the fire-pillars in this dark pilgrimage of mankind; they stand as heavenly signs, ever-living witnesses of what has been, prophetic tokens of what may still be, the revealed, embodied possibilities of human nature. Carlyle.
Great Men are the inspired (speaking and 10 acting) Texts of that Divine Book of Revelations, whereof a Chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History. Carlyle.
Great men are the modellers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain. Carlyle.
Great men are the true men, the men in whom Nature has succeeded. Amiel.
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. Emerson.
Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous. Emerson.
Great men do not play stage tricks with the 15 doctrines of life and death; only little men do that. Ruskin.
Great men essay enterprises because they think them great, and fools because they think them easy. Vauvenargues.
Great men get more by obliging inferiors than by disdaining them. South.
Great men, great nations have ever been perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it. Emerson.
Great men have their parasites. Sydney Smith.
Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by 20 being near us; ordinary men gain much. Landor.
Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them, / But in the less, foul profanation. Meas. for Meas., ii. 2.
Great men need to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas or perform their great deeds; that is, there must be an atmosphere of greatness round about them. A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world. Hawthorne.
Great men not only know their business, but they usually know that they know it, and are not only right in their main opinions, but they usually know that they are right in them. Ruskin.
Great men oft die by vile Bezonians. 2 Hen. VI., iv. 1.
Great men often rejoice at crosses of fortune, 25 just as brave soldiers do at wars. Sen.
Great men or men of great gifts you will easily find, but symmetrical men never. Emerson.
Great men, said Themistocles, are like the oaks, under the branches of which men are happy in finding a refuge in the time of storm and rain; but when they have to pass a sunny day under them, they take pleasure in cutting the bark and breaking the branches. Goethe.
Great men should drink with harness on their throats. Tim. of Athens, i. 2.
Great men should think of opportunity, and not of time. Time is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits. Disraeli.
Great men stand like solitary towers in the 30 city of God, and secret passages running deep beneath external Nature give their thoughts intercourse with higher intelligences, which strengthens and consoles them, and of which the labourers on the surface do not even dream. Longfellow.
Great men, though far above us, are felt to be our brothers; and their elevation shows us what vast possibilities are wrapped up in our common humanity. They beckon us up the gleaming heights to whose summits they have climbed. Their deeds are the woof of this world's history. Moses Harvey.
Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for. Landor.
Great men will always pay deference to greater. Landor.
Great minds erect their never-failing trophies on the firm base of mercy. Massinger.
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous 35 applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. Colton.
Great minds, like Heaven, are pleased in doing good, / Though the ungrateful subjects of their favours / Are barren in return. Rowe.
Great minds seek to labour for eternity. All other men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds are excited by the prospect of distant good. Schiller.
Great names stand not alone for great deeds; they stand also for great virtues, and, doing them worship, we elevate ourselves. H. Giles.
Great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions. Lowell.
Great passions are incurable diseases; the 40 very remedies make them worse. Goethe.
Great patriots must be men of great excellence; this alone can secure to them lasting admiration. H. Giles.
Great people and champions are special gifts of God, whom He gives and preserves; they do their work and achieve great actions, not with vain imaginations or cold and sleepy cogitations, but by motion of God. Luther.
Great pleasures are much less frequent than great pains. Hume.
Great poets are no sudden prodigies, but slow results. Lowell.
Great poets try to describe what all men see 45 and to express what all men feel; if they cannot describe it, they let it alone. Ruskin.
Great profits, great risks. Chinese Pr.
Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step. S. Smiles.
Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation. Disraeli.
Great souls are always royally submissive, reverent to what is over them; only small, mean souls are otherwise. Carlyle.
Great souls are not cast down by adversity. Pr.
Great souls are not those which have less 5 passion and more virtue than common souls, but only those which have greater designs. La Roche.
Great souls attract sorrows as mountains do storms. But the thunder-clouds break upon them, and they thus form a shelter for the plains around. Jean Paul.
Great souls care only for what is great. Amiel.
Great souls endure in silence. Schiller.
Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own. Dryden.
Great spirits and great business do keep out 10 this weak passion (love). Bacon.
Great talents are rare, and they rarely recognise themselves. Goethe.
Great talents have some admirers, but few friends. Niebuhr.
Great talkers are like leaky pitchers, everything runs out of them. Pr.
Great talkers are little doers. Pr.
Great thieves hang little ones. Ger. 15
Great things are done when men and mountains meet; / These are not done by jostling in the street. Wm. Blake.
Great things through greatest hazards are achiev'd, / And then they shine. Beaumont.
Great thoughts and a pure heart are the things we should beg for ourselves from God. Goethe.
Great thoughts come from the heart. Vauvenargues.
Great thoughts, great feelings come to them, / 20 Like instincts, unawares. M. Milnes.
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts. Hazlitt.
Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul, like cages to birds or pounds to beasts. Charron.
Great warmth at first is the certain ruin of every great achievement. Doth not water, although ever so cool, moisten the earth? Hitopadesa.
Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done. Bovee.
Great wealth, great care. Dut. Pr. 25
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, / And thin partitions do their bounds divide. Dryden.
Great wits to madness nearly are allied; / Both serve to make our poverty our pride. Emerson.
Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice. Leigh Hunt.
Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Johnson.
Great writers and orators are commonly economists 30 in the use of words. Whipple.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Jesus.
Greater than man, less than woman. Essex, of Queen Elizabeth.
Greatest scandal waits on greatest state. Shakespeare.
Greatly to find quarrel in a straw, / When honour's at the stake. Ham., iv. 4.
Greatness and goodness are not means, but 35 ends. Coleridge.
Greatness appeals to the future. Emerson.
Greatness, as we daily see it, is unsociable. Landor.
Greatness can only be rightly estimated when minuteness is justly reverenced. Greatness is the aggregation of minuteness; nor can its sublimity be felt truthfully by any mind unaccustomed to the affectionate watching of what is least. Ruskin.
Greatness doth not approach him who is for ever looking down. Hitopadesa.
Greatness envy not; for thou mak'st thereby / 40 Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater. Herbert.
Greatness, in any period and under any circumstances, has always been rare. It is of elemental birth, and is independent alike of its time and its circumstances. W. Winter.
Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration. Matthew Arnold.
Greatness is its own torment. Theodore Parker.
Greatness is like a laced coat from Monmouth Street, which fortune lends us for a day to wear, to-morrow puts it on another's back. Fielding.
Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable 45 thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made man: teach, or preach, or labour as you will, everlasting difference is set between one man's capacity and another's; and this God-given supremacy is the priceless thing, always just as rare in the world at one time as another.... And nearly the best thing that men can generally do is to set themselves, not to the attainment, but the discovery of this: learning to know gold, when we see it, from iron-glance, and diamond from flint-sand, being for most of us a more profitable employment than trying to make diamonds of our own charcoal. Ruskin.
Greatness is nothing unless it be lasting. Napoleon.
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right using of strength. He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. Ward Beecher.
Greatness may be present in lives whose range is very small. Phil. Brooks.
Greatness of mind is not shown by admitting small things, but by making small things great under its influence. He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great. Ruskin.
Greatness, once and for ever, has done with opinion. Emerson.
Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, / Must fall out with men too; what the declined is, / He shall as soon read in the eyes of others / As feel in his own fall. Troil. and Cress., iii. 3.
Greatness stands upon a precipice; and if prosperity carry a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces. Colton.
Greatness, thou gaudy torment of our souls, / The wise man's fetter and the rage of fools. Otway.
Greatness, with private men / Esteem'd a 5 blessing, is to me a curse; / And we, whom from our high births they conclude / The only free men, are the only slaves: / Happy the golden mean. Massinger.
Greediness bursts the bag. Pr.
Greedy folk hae lang airms. Sc. Pr.
Greedy misers rail at sordid misers. Helvetius.
Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry. Emerson.
Greek art, and all other art, is fine when it 10 makes a man's face as like a man's face as it can. Ruskin.
Greif nicht leicht in ein Wespennest, Doch wenn du greifst, so stehe fest—Attack not thoughtlessly a wasp's nest, but if you do, stand fast. M. Claudius.
Greife schnell zum Augenblicke, nur die Gegenwart ist dein—Quickly seize the moment: only the present is thine. Körner.
Grex totus in agris / Unius scabie cadit—The entire flock in the fields dies of the disease introduced by one. Juv.
Grex venalium—A venal pack. Sueton.
Grey hairs are wisdom—if you hold your 15 tongue; / Speak—and they are but hairs, as in the young. Philo.
Grief best is pleased with grief's society. Shakespeare.
Grief boundeth where it falls, / Not with an empty hollowness, but weight. Rich. II., i. 2.
Grief divided is made lighter. Pr.
Grief fills the room up of my absent child, / Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me; / Puts on his pretty look, repeats his words, / Remembers me of all his gracious parts, / Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form: / Then have I reason to be fond of grief. King John, iii. 4.
Grief finds some ease by him that like doth 20 bear. Spenser.
Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads. Bailey.
Grief has its time. Johnson.
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can, and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. Lamartine.
Grief is a species of idleness, and the necessity of attention to the present, preserves us from being lacerated and devoured by sorrow for the past. Dr. Johnson.
Grief is a stone that bears one down, but two 25 bear it lightly. W. Hauff.
Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. James Martineau.
Grief is proud and makes his owner stout. King John, iii. 1.
Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses. Wycherley.
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. Disraeli.
Grief is the culture of the soul; it is the true 30 fertiliser. Mme. de Girardin.
Grief, like a tree, has tears for its fruit. Philemon.
Grief makes one hour ten. Rich. II., i. 3.
Grief or misfortune seems to be indispensable to the development of intelligence, energy, and virtue. Fearon.
Grief sharpens the understanding and strengthens the soul, whereas joy seldom troubles itself about the former, and makes the latter either effeminate or frivolous. F. Schubert.
Grief should be / Like joy, majestic, equable, 35 sedate, / Conforming, cleansing, raising, making free. Aubrey de Vere (the younger).
Grief should be the instructor of the wise; / Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most / Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, / The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life. Byron.
Grief still treads upon the heels of Pleasure. Congreve.
Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless. Macaulay.
Griefs assured are felt before they come. Dryden.
Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled 40 front.... He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber, / To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. Rich. III., i. 1.
Grind the faces of the poor. Bible.
Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it is a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible. Colton.
Gross Diligenz und klein Conscienz macht reich—Great industry and little conscience make one rich. Ger. Pr.
Gross ist, wer Feinde tapfer überwand; / Doch grösser ist, wer sie gewonnen—Great is he who has bravely vanquished his enemies, but greater is he who has gained them. Seume.
Gross kann man sich im Glück, erhaben nur 45 im Unglück zeigen—One may show himself great in good fortune, but exalted only in bad. Schiller. (?)
Gross und leer, wie das Heidelberger Fass—Big and empty, like the Heidelberg tun. Ger. Pr.
Grosse Leidenschaften sind Krankheiten ohne Hoffnung; was sie heilen könnte, macht sie erst recht gefährlich—Great passions are incurable diseases; what might heal them is precisely that which makes them so dangerous. Goethe.
Grosse Seelen dulden still—Great souls endure in silence. Schiller.
Grosser Herren Leute lassen sich was bedünken—Great people's servants think themselves of no small consequence. Ger. Pr.
Grudge not another what you canna get yoursel'. Sc. Pr.
Grudge not one against another. St. James.
Guardalo ben, guardalo tutto / L'uom senza danar quanto è brutto—Watch him well, watch him closely; the man without money, how worthless he is! It. Pr.
Guardati da aceto di vin dolce—Beware of the vinegar of sweet wine. It. Pr.
Guardati da chi non ha che perdere—Beware of 5 him who has nothing to lose. It. Pr.
Guardati dall' occasione, e ti guarderà / Dio da peccati—Keep yourself from opportunities, and God will keep you from sins. It. Pr.
Guards from outward harms are sent; / Ills from within thy reason must prevent. Dryden.
Guard well thy thought; / Our thoughts are heard in heaven. Young.
Gude advice is ne'er out o' season. Sc. Pr.
Gude bairns are eith to lear, i.e., easy to teach. 10 Sc. Pr.
Gude breeding and siller mak' our sons gentlemen. Sc. Pr.
Gude claes (clothes) open a' doors. Sc. Pr.
Gude folk are scarce, tak' care o' ane. Sc. Pr.
Gude foresight furthers the wark. Sc. Pr.
Gude wares mak' a quick market. Sc. Pr. 15
Guds Raadkammer har ingen Nögle—To God's council-chamber we have no key. Dan. Pr.
Guenille, si l'on veut; ma guenille m'est chère—Call it a rag, if you please; my rag is dear to me. Molière.
Guerra al cuchillo—War to the knife. Sp.
Guerra cominciata, inferno scatenato—War begun, hell let loose. It. Pr.
Guerre à mort—War to the death. Fr. 20
Guerre à outrance—War of extermination; war to the uttermost. Fr.
Guerre aux châteaux, paix aux chaumières!—War to the castles, peace to the cottages! Fr.
Guessing is missing (the point). Dut. Pr.
Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon. Jane Porter.
Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits 25 upon it. Congreve.
Guilt is the source of sorrow; 'tis the fiend, / Th' avenging fiend that follows us behind / With whips and stings. Rowe.
Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendour, can never confer real happiness. Scott.
Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use. Othello, v. 1.
Guilty consciences make men cowards. Vanbrugh.
Gunpowder is the emblem of politic revenge, 30 for it biteth first and barketh afterwards; the bullet being at the mark before the noise is heard, so that it maketh a noise not by way of warning, but of triumph. Fuller.
Gunpowder makes all men alike tall.... Hereby at last is the Goliath powerless and the David resistless; savage animalism is nothing, inventive spiritualism is all. Carlyle.
Gustatus est sensus ex omnibus maxime voluptarius—The sense of taste is the most exquisite of all. Cic.
Gut Gewissen ist ein sanftes Ruhekissen—A good conscience is a soft pillow. Ger. Pr.
Gut verloren, etwas verloren; / Ehre verloren, viel verloren; / Mut verloren, alles verloren—Wealth lost, something lost; honour lost, much lost; courage lost, all lost. Goethe.
Güte bricht einem kein Bein—Kindness breaks 35 no one's bones. Ger. Pr.
Guter Rath kommt über Nacht—Good counsel comes over-night. Ger. Pr.
Guter Rath lässt sich geben, aber gute Sitte nicht—Good advice may be given, but manners not. Turkish Pr.
Gutes aus Gutem, das kann jedweder Verständige bilden; / Aber der Genius ruft Gutes aus Schlechtem hervor—Good out of good is what every man of intellect can fashion, but it takes genius to evoke good out of bad. Schiller.
Gutes und Böses kommt unerwartet dem Menschen; / Auch verkündet, glauben wir's nicht—Good and evil come unexpected to man; even if foretold, we believe it not. Goethe.
Gutta cavat lapidem, consumitur annulus 40 usu, / Et teritur pressa vomer aduncus humo—The drop hollows the stone, the ring is worn by use, and the crooked ploughshare is frayed away by the pressure of the earth. Ovid.
Gutta cavat lapidem non vi, sed sæpe cadendo—The drop hollows the stone not by force, but by continually falling. Pr.
Gutta fortunæ præ dolio sapientiæ—A drop of good fortune rather than a cask of wisdom. Pr.