Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
old at the end of three months. Nigu.
A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody. Pr.
A fronte præcipitium, a tergo lupus—A precipice before, a wolf behind. Pr.
After dinner rest awhile; after supper walk a mile. Pr.
After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Macb., 15 iii. 2.
After meat mustard, i.e., too late.
After the spirit of discernment, the next rarest things in the world are diamonds and pearls. La Bruyère.
After-wit is everybody's wit. Pr.
A full cup is hard to carry. Pr.
A ganging fit (foot) is aye getting. Sc. Pr. 20
A gauche—To the left. Fr.
Age does not make us childish, as people say; it only finds us still true children. Goethe.
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years. G. W. Curtis.
Age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun. Colton.
A genius is one who is endowed with an excess 25 of nervous energy and sensibility. Schopenhauer.
Agent de change—A stockbroker. Fr.
A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene. Emerson.
A gentleman's first characteristic is fineness of nature. Ruskin.
A gentleman that will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month. Rom. and Jul., ii. 4.
Age quod agis—Attend to (lit. do) what you are 30 doing.
Agere considerate pluris est quam cogitare prudenter—It is of more consequence to act considerately than to think sagely. Cic.
Agiotage—Stockbroking. Fr.
A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise. Love's L. Lost, iv. 1.
Agnosco veteris vestigia flammæ—I own I feel traces of an old passion. Virg.
A God all mercy is a God unjust. Young. 35
A God speaks softly in our breast; softly, yet distinctly, shows us what to hold by and what to shun. Goethe.
A gold key opens every door. Pr.
A good bargain is a pick-purse. Pr.
A good beginning makes a good ending. Pr.
A good book is the precious life-blood of a 40 master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. Milton.
A good friend is my nearest relation. Pr.
A good horse should be seldom spurred. Pr.
A good inclination is only the first rude draught of virtue, but the finishing strokes are from the will. South.
A good king is a public servant. Ben Jonson.
A good laugh is sunshine in a house. Thackeray. 45
A good law is one that holds, whether you recognise it or not; a bad law is one that cannot, however much you ordain it. Ruskin.
A good man in his dark striving is, I should say, conscious of the right way. Goethe.
A good man shall be satisfied from himself. Bible.
A good marksman may miss. Pr.
A good name is sooner lost than won. Pr. 50
A good presence is a letter of recommendation. Pr.
A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. Willmott.
A good rider on a good horse is as much above himself and others as the world can make him. Lord Herbert of Cherbury.
A good road and a wise traveller are two different things. Pr.
A good solid bit of work lasts. George Eliot. 55
A good surgeon must have an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand. Pr.
A good thought is a great boon. Bovee.
A good wife and health are a man's best wealth. Pr.
A gorge déployée—With full throat. Fr.
A government for protecting business and 60 bread only is but a carcase, and soon falls by its own corruption to decay. A. B. Alcott.
A government may not waver; once it has chosen its course, it must, without looking to right or left, thenceforth go forward. Bismarck.
A grands frais—At great expense. Fr.
A grave and a majestic exterior is the palace of the soul. Chinese Pr.
A great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity. George Eliot.
A great deal may and must be done which we 65 dare not acknowledge in words. Goethe.
A great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction. Heine.
A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation. Emerson.
A great man is he who can call together the most select company when it pleases him. Landor.
A great man is one who affects the mind of his generation. Disraeli.
A great man living for high ends is the 70 divinest thing that can be seen on earth. G. S. Hillard.
A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good. Emerson.
A great master always appropriates what is good in his predecessors, and it is this which makes him great. Goethe.
A great observer, and he looks / Quite through the deeds of men. Jul. Cæs., i. 2.
A great reputation is a great noise; the more there is made, the farther off it is heard. Napoleon.
A great revolution is never the fault of the 5 people, but of the government. Goethe.
A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher. Goethe.
A great spirit errs as well as a little one, the former because it knows no bounds, the latter because it confounds its own horizon with that of the universe. Goethe.
A great thing can only be done by a great man, and he does it without effort. Ruskin.
A great thing is a great book, but greater than all is the talk of a great man.