=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._