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