Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
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