Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
should be / Like joy, majestic, equable, 35 sedate, / Conforming, cleansing, raising, making free. Aubrey de Vere (the younger).
Grief should be the instructor of the wise; / Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most / Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, / The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life. Byron.
Grief still treads upon the heels of Pleasure. Congreve.
Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless. Macaulay.
Griefs assured are felt before they come. Dryden.
Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled 40 front. … He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber, / To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. Rich. III., i. 1.
Grind the faces of the poor. Bible.
Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it is a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible. Colton.
Gross Diligenz und klein Conscienz macht reich—Great industry and little conscience make one rich. Ger. Pr.
Gross ist, wer Feinde tapfer überwand; / Doch grösser ist, wer sie gewonnen—Great is he who has bravely vanquished his enemies, but greater is he who has gained them. Seume.
Gross kann man sich im Glück, erhaben nur 45 im Unglück zeigen—One may show himself great in good fortune, but exalted only in bad. Schiller. (?)
Gross und leer, wie das Heidelberger Fass—Big and empty, like the Heidelberg tun. Ger. Pr.
Grosse Leidenschaften sind Krankheiten ohne Hoffnung; was sie heilen könnte, macht sie erst recht gefährlich—Great passions are incurable diseases; what might heal them is precisely that which makes them so dangerous. Goethe.
Grosse Seelen dulden still—Great souls endure in silence. Schiller.
Grosser Herren Leute lassen sich was bedünken—Great people's servants think themselves of no small consequence. Ger. Pr.
Grudge not another what you canna get yoursel'. Sc. Pr.
Grudge not one against another. St. James.
Guardalo ben, guardalo tutto / L'uom senza danar quanto è brutto—Watch him well, watch him closely; the man without money, how worthless he is! It. Pr.
Guardati da aceto di vin dolce—Beware of the vinegar of sweet wine. It. Pr.
Guardati da chi non ha che perdere—Beware of 5 him who has nothing to lose. It. Pr.
Guardati dall' occasione, e ti guarderà / Dio da peccati—Keep yourself from opportunities, and God will keep you from sins. It. Pr.
Guards from outward harms are sent; / Ills from within thy reason must prevent. Dryden.
Guard well thy thought; / Our thoughts are heard in heaven. Young.
Gude advice is ne'er out o' season. Sc. Pr.
Gude bairns are eith to lear, i.e., easy to teach. 10 Sc. Pr.
Gude breeding and siller mak' our sons gentlemen. Sc. Pr.
Gude claes (clothes) open a' doors. Sc. Pr.
Gude folk are scarce, tak' care o' ane. Sc. Pr.
Gude foresight furthers the wark. Sc. Pr.
Gude wares mak' a quick market. Sc. Pr. 15
Guds Raadkammer har ingen Nögle—To God's council-chamber we have no key. Dan. Pr.
Guenille, si l'on veut; ma guenille m'est chère—Call it a rag, if you please; my rag is dear to me. Molière.
Guerra al cuchillo—War to the knife. Sp.
Guerra cominciata, inferno scatenato—War begun, hell let loose. It. Pr.
Guerre à mort—War to the death. Fr. 20
Guerre à outrance—War of extermination; war to the uttermost. Fr.
Guerre aux châteaux, paix aux chaumières!—War to the castles, peace to the cottages! Fr.
Guessing is missing (the point). Dut. Pr.
Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon. Jane Porter.
Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits 25 upon it. Congreve.
Guilt is the source of sorrow; 'tis the fiend, / Th' avenging fiend that follows us behind / With whips and stings. Rowe.
Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendour, can never confer real happiness. Scott.
Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use. Othello, v. 1.
Guilty consciences make men cowards. Vanbrugh.
Gunpowder is the emblem of politic revenge, 30 for it biteth first and barketh afterwards; the bullet being at the mark before the noise is heard, so that it maketh a noise not by way of warning, but of triumph. Fuller.
Gunpowder makes all men alike tall. … Hereby at last is the Goliath powerless and the David resistless; savage animalism is nothing, inventive spiritualism is all. Carlyle.
Gustatus est sensus ex omnibus maxime voluptarius—The sense of taste is the most exquisite of all. Cic.
Gut Gewissen ist ein sanftes Ruhekissen—A good conscience is a soft pillow. Ger. Pr.
Gut verloren, etwas verloren; / Ehre verloren, viel verloren; / Mut verloren, alles verloren—Wealth lost, something lost; honour lost, much lost; courage lost, all lost. Goethe.
Güte bricht einem kein Bein—Kindness breaks 35 no one's bones. Ger. Pr.
Guter Rath kommt über Nacht—Good counsel comes over-night. Ger. Pr.
Guter Rath lässt sich geben, aber gute Sitte nicht—Good advice may be given, but manners not. Turkish Pr.
Gutes aus Gutem, das kann jedweder Verständige bilden; / Aber der Genius ruft Gutes aus Schlechtem hervor—Good out of good is what every man of intellect can fashion, but it takes genius to evoke good out of bad. Schiller.
Gutes und Böses kommt unerwartet dem Menschen; / Auch verkündet, glauben wir's nicht—Good and evil come unexpected to man; even if foretold, we believe it not. Goethe.
Gutta cavat lapidem, consumitur annulus 40 usu, / Et teritur pressa vomer aduncus humo—The drop hollows the stone, the ring is worn by use, and the crooked ploughshare is frayed away by the pressure of the earth. Ovid.
Gutta cavat lapidem non vi, sed sæpe cadendo—The drop hollows the stone not by force, but by continually falling. Pr.