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