Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
has a heavy tax to pay. Alex. Smith.
Grand parleur, grand menteur—Great talker, 10 great liar. Fr. Pr.
Grand venteur, petit faiseur—Great boaster, little doer. Fr. Pr.
Grant but memory to us, and we can lose nothing by death. Whittier.
Granted the ship comes into harbour with shrouds and tackle damaged; the pilot is blameworthy; he has not been all-wise and all-powerful; but to know how blameworthy, tell us first whether his voyage has been round the globe or only to Ramsgate and the Isle of Dogs. Carlyle.
Gran victoria es la que sin sangre se alcanza—Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed. Sp. Pr.
Grasp all, lose all. Pr. 15
Grass grows not on the highway. Pr.
Gratia naturam vincit—Grace overcomes Nature.
Grata superveniet quæ non sperabitur hora—The hour of happiness will come the more welcome when it is not expected. Hor.
Gratiæ expectativæ—Expected benefits.
Gratia gratiam parit—Kindness produces kindness. 20 Pr.
Gratia, Musa, tibi. Nam tu solatia præbes; / Tu curæ requies, tu medicina mali—Thanks to thee, my Muse. For thou dost afford me comfort; thou art a rest from my cares, a cure for my woes. Ovid.
Gratia placendi—The satisfaction of pleasing.
Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis—Thanks are justly due for things we have not to pay for. Ovid.
Gratior et pulchro veniens in corpore virtus—Even virtue appears more lovely when enshrined in a beautiful form. Virg.
Gratis—For nothing. 25
Gratis anhelans, multa agendo nihil agens—Out of breath for nothing, making much ado about nothing. Phæd.
Gratis asseritur—It is asserted but not proved.
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect. Rousseau.
Gratitude is a keen sense of favours to come. Talleyrand.
Gratitude is a species of justice. Johnson. 30
Gratitude is memory of the heart. (?)
Gratitude is never conferred but where there have been previous endeavours to excite it; we consider it as a debt, and our spirits wear a load till we have discharged the obligation. Goldsmith.
Gratitude is one of the rarest of virtues. Theodore Parker.
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul; and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant. H. Ballou.
Gratitude is the least of virtues, ingratitude 35 the worst of vices. Pr.
Gratitude is with most people only a strong desire for greater benefits to come. La Roche.
Gratitude once refused can never after be recovered. Goldsmith.
Gratitude which consists in good wishes may be said to be dead, as faith without good works is dead. Cervantes.
Gratis dictum—Said to no purpose; irrelevant to the question at issue.
Gratum hominem semper beneficium delectat; 40 ingratum semel—A kindness is always delightful to a grateful man; to an ungrateful, only at the time of its receipt. Sen.
Grau' Haare sind Kirchhofsblumen—Gray hairs are churchyard flowers. Ger. Pr.
Grau, teurer Freund, ist alle Theorie, / Und grün des Lebens goldner Baum—Gray, dear friend, is all theory, and green life's golden tree. Goethe.
Grave nihil est homini quod fert necessitas—No burden is really heavy to a man which necessity lays on him.
Grave paupertas malum est, et intolerabile, quæ magnum domat populum—The poverty which oppresses a great people is a grievous and intolerable evil.
Grave pondus illum magna nobilitas premit—His 45 exalted rank weighs heavy on him as a grievous burden. Sen.
Grave senectus est hominibus pondus—Old age is a heavy burden to man.
Graves, the dashes in the punctuation of our lives. S. W. Duffield.
Grave virus / Munditiæ pepulere—More elegant manners expelled this offensive style. Hor.
Graviora quædam sunt remedia periculis—Some remedies are worse than the disease. Pub. Syr.
Gravis ira regum semper—The anger of kings 50 is always heavy. Sen.
Gravissimum est imperium consuetudinis—The empire of custom is most mighty. Pub. Syr.
Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body, invented to cover the defects of the mind. La Roche.
Gravity is a taught trick to gain credit of the world for more sense and knowledge than a man is worth. Sterne.
Gravity is only the bark of wisdom, but it preserves it. Confucius.
Gravity is the ballast of the soul, which keeps 55 the mind steady. Fuller.
Gravity is the best cloak for sin in all countries. Fielding.
Gravity is the inseparable companion of pride. Goldsmith.
Gravity is twin brother to stupidity. Bovee.
Gravity, with all its pretensions, was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined it, viz., a mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind. Sterne.
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the light of a soft moon, silvering over the evening of life. Jean Paul.
Gray is all theory, and green the while is the golden tree of life. Goethe.
Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing. … 5 His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; you will seek all day ere you find them; and when you have them, they are not worth the search. Mer. of Ven., i. 1.
Great actions crown themselves with lasting bays; / Who well deserves needs not another's praise. Heath.
Great acts grow out of great occasions, and great occasions spring from great principles, working changes in society and tearing it up by the roots. Hazlitt.
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. He who is endowed with it may perform very good or very bad actions; all depends upon the principles which direct him. Napoleon.
Great art dwells in all that is beautiful; but false art omits or changes all that is ugly. Great art accepts Nature as she is, but directs the eyes and thoughts to what is most perfect in her; false art saves itself the trouble of direction by removing or altering whatever is objectionable. Ruskin.
Great attention to what is said and