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