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