Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
müsst ihr im Herzen suchen und finden—Ye must seek and find God in the heart. Jean Paul.
Gott schuf ja aus Erden den Ritter und Knecht. / Ein hoher Sinn adelt auch niedres Geschlecht—God created out of the clay the knight and his squire. A higher sense ennobles even a humble race. Bürger.
Gott-trunkener Mensch—A god-intoxicated man. Novalis, of Spinoza.
Gott verlässt den Mutigen nimmer—God never 5 forsakes the stout of heart. Körner.
Göttern kann man nicht vergelten; / Schön ist's, ihnen gleich zu sein—We cannot recompense the gods; beautiful it is to be like them. Schiller.
Gottes Freund, der Pfaffen Feind—God's friend, priest's foe. Ger. Pr.
Gottes ist der Orient, / Gottes ist der Occident, / Nord-und Südliches Gelände / Ruht im Friede seiner Hände—God's is the east, God's is the west; north region and south rests in the peace of his hands. Goethe.
Gottes Mühle geht langsam, aber sie mahlt fein—God's mill goes slow, but it grinds fine. Ger. Pr.
Göttliche Apathie und thierische Indifferenz 10 werden nur zu oft verwechselt—Divine indifference and brutish indifference are too often confounded. Feuchtersleben.
Goutte à goutte—Drop by drop. Fr.
Govern the lips as they were palace-doors, the king within; / Tranquil and fair and courteous be all words which from that presence win. Sir Edwin Arnold.
Government and co-operation are in all things the laws of life; anarchy and competition, the laws of death. Ruskin.
Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. … Everybody knows that Government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs. Wendell Phillips.
Government began in tyranny and force, in 15 the feudalism of the soldier and the bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way like a thunderstorm against the organised selfishness of human nature. Wendell Phillips.
Government has been a fossil; it should be a plant. Emerson.
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Burke.
Government is a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All governing over-much kills the self-help and energy of the governed. Wendell Phillips.
Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people. H. Clay.
Government is the greatest combination of 20 forces known to human society. It can command more men and raise more money than any and all other agencies combined. D. D. Field.
Government must always be a step ahead of the popular movement (Bewegung). Count Arnim.
Government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abraham Lincoln.
Government of the will is better than increase of knowledge. Pr.
Government should direct poor men what to do. Emerson.
Governments exist only for the good of the 25 people. Macaulay.
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. Wendell Phillips.
Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men. Emerson.
Gowd (gold) gets in at ilka (every) gate except heaven. Sc. Pr.
Gowd is gude only in the hand o' virtue. Sc. Pr.
Goza tû de tu poco, mientras busca mas el 30 loco—Enjoy your little while the fool is in search of more. Sp. Pr.
Grace abused brings forth the foulest deeds, / As richest soil the most luxuriant weeds. Cowper.
Grace has been defined the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. Hazlitt.
Grace in women has more effect than beauty. Hazlitt.
Grace is a light superior to Nature, which should direct and preside over it. Thomas à Kempis.
Grace is a plant, where'er it grows / Of pure 35 and heavenly root; / But fairest in the youngest shows, / And yields the sweetest fruit. Cowper.
Grace is in garments, in movements, and manners; beauty in the nude and in forms. Joubert.
Grace is more beautiful than beauty. Emerson.
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom. Schiller.
Grace is the proper relation of the acting person to the action. Winckelmann.
Grace is to the body what good sense is to the 40 mind. La Roche.
Grace pays its respects to true intrinsic worth, not to the mere signs and trappings of it, which often only show where it ought to be, not where it really is. Thomas à Kempis.
Grace was in all her steps, heav'n in her eye, / In every gesture dignity and love. Milton.
Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease. Rousseau.
Gradatim—Step by step; by degrees.
Gradu diverso, via una—By different steps but 45 the same way.
Gradus ad Parnassum—A help to the composition of classic poetry.
Græcia capta ferum victorem cepit, et artes / Intulit agresti Latio—Greece, conquered herself, in turn conquered her uncivilised conqueror, and imported her arts into rusticated Latium. Hor.
Gram. loquitur; Dia. vera docet; Rhe. verba colorat; Mu. canit; Ar. numerat; Geo. ponderat; As. docet astra—Grammar speaks; dialectics teaches us truth; rhetoric gives colouring to our speech; music sings; arithmetic reckons; geometry measures; astronomy teaches us the stars.
Grammar knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hand make them obey. Molière.
Grammaticus Rhetor Geometres Pictor Aliptes / Augur Schœnobates Medicus Magus—omnia novit—Grammarian, rhetorician, geometrician, painter, anointer, augur, tight-rope dancer, physician, magician—he knows everything. Juv.
Grain of glory mixt with humbleness / Cures both a fever and lethargicness. Herbert.
Grand besoin a de fol qui de soi-même le fait—He has great need of a fool who makes himself one. Fr. Pr.
Grand bien ne vient pas en peu d'heures—Great 5 wealth is not gotten in a few hours. Fr.
Grande parure—Full dress. Fr.
Grandescunt aucta labore—They grow with increase of toil. M.
Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Shenstone.