Genius is only as rich as it is generous. Thoreau.
Genius is religious. Emerson.
Genius is that in whose power a man is. Lowell.
Genius is that power of man which by its deeds and actions gives laws and rules; and it does not, as used to be thought, manifest itself only by over-stepping existing laws, breaking established rules, and declaring itself above all restraint. Goethe.
Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the 50 miner who works and brings it out. Lady Blessington.
Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood. Coleridge.
Genius is the transcendent capacity of taking trouble first of all. Carlyle.
Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes. Simms.
Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light. Schopenhauer.
Genius loci—The presiding genius of the place.
Genius makes its observations in shorthand; talent writes them out at length. Bovee.
Genius may at times want the spur, but it stands as often in need of the curb. Longinus.
Genius melts many ages into one.... A work 5 of genius is but the newspaper of a century, or perchance of a hundred centuries. Hawthorne.
Genius must be born, and never can be taught. Dryden.
Genius of a kind is necessary to make a fortune, and especially a large one. La Bruyère.
Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it. Froude.
Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength. Hazlitt.
Genius should be the child of genius, and every 10 child should be inspired. Emerson.
Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull. Bulwer Lytton.
Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. Beecher.
Genius will reconcile men to much. Carlyle.
Genius works in sport, and goodness smiles to the last. Emerson.
Gens d'armes—Armed police. Fr. 15
Gens de bureau—Officials in a government office. Fr.
Gens de condition—People of rank. Fr.
Gens d'église—Churchmen. Fr.
Gens de guerre—Soldiers. Fr.
Gens de langues—Linguists. Fr. 20
Gens de lettres—Literary people. Fr.
Gens de lois—Lawyers. Fr.
Gens de même famille—Birds of a feather. Fr.
Gens de peu—The lower classes. Fr.
Gens togata—The nation with the toga, i.e., the 25 Roman.
Gentility is nothing else but ancient riches. Lord Burleigh.
Gentility without ability is waur (worse) than plain begging. Sc. Pr.
Gentle passions brighten the horizon of our existence, move without wearying, warm without consuming, and are the badges of true strength. Feuchtersleben.
Gentle words, quiet words, are, after all, the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing. W. Gladden.
Gentleman, in its primal, literal, and perpetual 30 meaning, is a man of pure race. Ruskin.
Gentleman is a term which does not apply to any station, but to the mind and the feelings in every station. Talfourd.
Gentlemanliness is just another word for intense humanity. Ruskin.
Gentlemen have to learn that it is no part of their duty or privilege to live on other people's toil; that there is no degradation in the hardest manual or the humblest servile labour, when it is honest. Ruskin.
"Gentlemen of the jury, you will now consider your verdict." Lord Tenterden's last words.
Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in 35 our manners. Blair.
Gentleness! more powerful than Hercules. Ninon de l'Enclos.
Gentleness, when it weds with manhood, makes a man. Tennyson.
Gently comes the world to those / That are cast in gentle mould. Tennyson.
Gently didst thou ramble round the little circle of thy pleasures, jostling no creature in thy way: for each one's sorrows thou hadst a tear; for each man's need thou hadst a shilling. Sterne's Uncle Toby.
Gently, gently touch a nettle, / And it stings 40 you for your pains; / Grasp it like a man of mettle, / And it soft as silk remains. Aaron Hill.
Genug ist über einer Sackvoll—Enough excels a sackful. Ger. Pr.
Genuine morality depends on no religion, though every one sanctions it and thereby guarantees to it its support. Schopenhauer.
Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion. Bovee.
Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle. Burke.
Genus et proavos et quæ non fecimus ipsi, / 45 Vix ea nostra voco—Birth, ancestry, and what we have ourselves not done, I would hardly call our own. Ovid.
Genus humanum superavit—He surpassed the human race in natural ability. Lucret.
Genus immortale manet, multosque per annos / Stat fortuna domus, et avi numerantur avorum—The race continues immortal, and through many years the fortune of the house stands steadfast, and it numbers grandsires of grandsires. Virg.
Genus irritabile vatum—The sensitive tribe of poets.
[Greek: Gêraskô d' aei polla didaskomenos]—Always learning many things the older I grow. Solon.
Gerechtigkeit ist mehr die männliche, Menschenliebe 50 mehr die weibliche Tugend—Justice is properly the virtue of the man, charity of the woman. Schopenhauer.
Geredt ist geredt, man kann es mit keinem Schwamme abwischen—What is said is said; there is no sponge that can wipe it out. Ger. Pr.
Germanicè—In German.
Gescheite Leute sind immer das beste Konversationslexikon—Clever people are always the best Conversations-lexicon. Goethe.
Geschichte ist eigentlich nichts anderes, als eine Satire auf die Menschheit—History is properly nothing else but a satire on humanity. C. J. Weber.
Geschrei macht den Wolf grösser als er ist—Fear 55 makes the wolf bigger than he is. Ger. Pr.
Gesellschaft ist die Grossmutter der Menschheit durch ihre Töchter, die Erfindungen—Society is the grandmother of humanity through her daughters, the inventions. C. J. Weber.
Gesetz ist mächtig, mächtiger ist die Noth—Law is powerful; necessity is more so. Goethe.
Gesetzlose Gewalt ist die furchbarste Schwäche—Lawless power is the most frightful weakness. Herder.
Gespenster sind für solche Leute nur / Die sehn sie wollen—Ghosts visit only those who look for them. Holtei.
Get a good name and go to sleep. Pr.
Get money, honestly if you can, but get money. Pr.
Get once into the secret of any Christian act, and you get practically into the secret of Christianity itself. Ed.
Get on the crupper of a good stout hypothesis, 5 and you may ride round the world. Sterne.
Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; / If not, by any means get wealth and place. Pope.
Get spindle and distaff ready, and God will send the flax. Pr.
Get thee to a nunnery! Ham., iii. 1.
Get to live; / Then live and use it; else it is not true / That thou hast gotten. Herbert.
Get what ye can and keep what ye hae. Sc. 10 Pr.
Get your enemies to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you. Pope.
Geteilte Freud' ist doppelt Freude—Joy shared is joy doubled. Goethe.
Gewalt ist die beste Beredsamkeit—Power is the most persuasive rhetoric. Schiller.
Gewinnen ist leichter als Erhalten—Getting is easier than keeping. Ger. Pr.
Gewöhne dich, da stets der Tod dir dräut, / 15 Dankbar zu nehmen, was das Leben beut—Accustom thyself, since death ever threatens thee, to accept with a thankful heart whatever life offers thee. Bodenstedt.
Gewöhnlich glaubt Mensch, wenn er nur Worte hört, / Es müsse sich dabei doch auch was denken lassen—Men generally believe, when they hear only words, that there must be something in it. Goethe.
Ghosts! There are nigh a thousand million walking the earth openly at noontide; some half-hundred have vanished from it, some half-hundred have arisen in it, ere thy watch ticks once. Carlyle.
Giant Antæus in the fable acquired new strength every time he touched the earth; so some brave minds gain fresh energy from that which depresses and crushes others. Murphy.
Gibier de potence—A gallows-bird. Fr.
Gie a bairn his will and a whelp his fill, an' 20 neither will do well. Sc. Pr.
Gie a beggar a bed, and he'll pay you with a louse. Sc. Pr.
Gie him tow enough and he'll hang himsel', i.e., give him enough of his own way. Sc. Pr.
Gie me a canny hour at e'en, / My arms about my dearie, O, / An' warl'ly cares an' warl'ly men / May a' gang tapsalteerie, O. Burns.
Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire! / That's a' the learning I desire; / Then though I drudge through dub and mire, / At pleugh or cart, / My Muse, though hamely in attire, / May touch the heart. Burns.
Gie me a peck o' oaten strae, / An' sell your wind 25 for siller. The cow to the piper who put her off with piping to her.
Gie the deil his due, an' ye'll gang till him. Sc. Pr.
Gie the greedy dog a muckle bane. Sc. Pr.
Gie wealth to some be-ledger'd cit, / In cent. per cent.; / But gie me real, sterling wit, / And I'm content. Burns.
Gie your heart to God and your awms (alms) to the poor. Sc. Pr.
Gie your tongue mair holidays than your head. 30 Sc. Pr.
Giebt es Krieg, so macht der Teufel die Hölle weiter—When war falls out, the devil enlarges hell. Ger. Pr.
Giebt's schönre Pflichten für ein edles Herz / Als ein Verteidiger der Unschuld sein, / Das Recht der unterdrückten zu beschirmen?—What nobler task is there for a noble heart than to take up the defence of innocence and protect the rights of the oppressed? Schiller.
Gierigheid is niet verzadigd voor zij den mond vol aarde heeft—Greed is never satisfied till its mouth is filled with earth. Dut. Pr.
Giff-gaff maks gude friends, i.e., mutual giving. Sc. Pr.
Gift of prophecy has been wisely denied to 35 man. Did a man foresee his life, and not merely hope it and grope it, and so by necessity and free-will make and fabricate it into a reality, he were no man, but some other kind of creature, superhuman or subterhuman. Carlyle.
Gifts are as gold that adorns the temple; grace is like the temple that sanctifies the gold. Burkett.
Gifts are often losses. It. Pr.
Gifts come from on high in their own peculiar forms. Goethe.
Gifts from the hand are silver and gold, but the heart gives that which neither silver nor gold can buy. Ward Beecher.
Gifts make their way through stone walls. 40 Pr.
Gifts weigh like mountains on a sensitive heart. Mme. Fee.
Gigni pariter cum corpore, et una / Crescere sentimus pariterque senescere mentem—We see that the mind is born with the body, that it grows with it, and also ages with it. Lucret.
Gin (if) ye hadna been among the craws, ye wadna hae been shot. Sc. Pr.
Giovine santo, diavolo vecchio—A young saint, an old devil. It. Pr.
Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, / Suffering 45 yet hoping all things. Mrs. Hemans.
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be. Goethe.
Give a boy address and accomplishments, and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes. Emerson.
Give a dog an ill name and hang him. Pr.
Give a hint to a man of sense and consider the thing done. Pr.
Give alms, that thy children may not ask 50 them. Dan. Pr.
Give a man luck and throw him into the sea. Pr.
Give ample room and verge enough. Gray.
Give an ass oats, and it runs after thistles. Dut. Pr.
Give, and it shall be given to you. Jesus.
Give and spend, / And God will send. Pr. 55
Give a rogue rope enough, and he will hang himself. Pr.
Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging. Diderot.
Give every flying minute / Something to keep in store. Walker.
Give every man his due. Pr.
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; / 5 Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Ham., i. 3.
Give from below what ye get from above, / Light for the heaven-light, love for its love, / A holy soul for the Holy Dove. Dr. Walter Smith.
Give God the margin of eternity to justify Himself in. Haweis.
Give him an inch and he'll take an ell. Pr.
Give him a present! give him a halter. Mer. of Ven., ii. 2.
Give me again my hollow tree, / A crust of 10 bread, and liberty. Pope.
Give me a look, give me a face, / That makes simplicity a grace, / Robes loosely flowing, hair as free; / Such sweet neglect more taketh me, / Than all the adulteries of art; / They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. Ben Jonson.
Give me but / Something whereunto I may bind my heart; / Something to love, to rest upon, to clasp / Affection's tendrils round. Mrs. Hemans.
Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. Emerson.
Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds.... This idea has inspired the genius of Goldsmith, Burns, Cowper, and, in a newer time, of Goethe, Wordsworth, and Carlyle. Their writing is blood-warm. Emerson.
Give me my Romeo: and, when he shall die, / 15 Take him and cut him out in little stars, / And he will make the face of heaven so fine / That all the world will be in love with night, / And pay no homage to the garish sun. Rom. and Jul., iii. 2.
Give me that man / Who is not passion's slave, and I will wear him / In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of hearts. Ham., iii. 2.
Give me the avow'd, th' erect, the manly foe, / Bold I can meet, perhaps may turn, his blow; / But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, / Save, save, oh! save me from the candid friend. Canning.
Give me the eloquent cheek, where blushes burn and die. Mrs. Osgood.
Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe, and to utter freely, according to conscience, above all other liberties. Milton.
Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked 20 for it. Pr.
Give not that which is holy to the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine. Jesus.
Give only so much to one that you may have to give to another. Dan. Pr.
Give orders, but no more, and nothing will be done. Sp. and Port. Pr.
Give pleasure to the few; to please many is vain. Schiller.
Give ruffles to a man who wants a shirt. Fr. 25 Pr. (?)
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak, / Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break. Macbeth, iv. 3.
Give the devil his due. 1 Hen. IV., i. 2.
Give the devil rope enough and he will hang himself. Pr.
Give thy need, thine honour, and thy friend his due. Herbert.
Give thy thoughts no tongue, / Nor any unproportioned 30 thought his act. / Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. / The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, / Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; / But do not dull thy palm with entertainment / Of each new-hatch'd unfledged comrade. Ham., i. 3.
Give to a gracious message / An host of tongues; but let ill tidings tell / Themselves when they be felt. Ant. and Cleo., ii. 5.
Give to him that asketh of thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away. Jesus.
Give to the masses nothing to do, and they will topple down thrones and cut throats; give them the government here, and they will make pulpits useless, and colleges an impertinence. Wendell Phillips.
Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom. Sir P. Sidney.
Give unto me, made lowly wise, / The spirit of 35 self-sacrifice; / The confidence of reason give; / And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live. Wordsworth.
Give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he will be equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time; he will do it better; he will persevere longer. Carlyle.
Give way to your betters. Pr.
Give you a reason on compulsion? If reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion. 1 Hen. IV., ii. 4.
Give your tongue more holiday than your hands or eyes. Rabbi Ben Azai.
Given a living man, there will be found clothes 40 for him; he will find himself clothes; but the suit of clothes pretending that it is both clothes and man— Carlyle.
Given a world of knaves, to educe an Honesty from their united action, is a problem that is becoming to all men a palpably hopeless one. Carlyle.
Given the men a people choose, the people itself, in its exact worth and worthlessness, is given. Carlyle.
Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade / To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, / Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy / To kings that fear their subjects' treachery. 3 Hen. VI., ii. 5.
Giving alms never lessens the purse. Sp. Pr.
Giving away is the instrument for accumulated 45 treasures; it is like a bucket for the distribution of the waters deposited in the bowels of a well. Hitopadesa.
Giving to the poor increaseth a man's store. Sc. Pr.
Gladiator in arena consilium capit—The gladiator is taking advice when he is already in the lists. Pr.
Glänzendes Elend—Shining misery. Goethe.
Glasses and lasses are brittle ware. Sc. Pr.
Glaube nur, du hast viel gethan / Wenn dir Geduld gewöhnest an—Assure yourself you have accomplished no small feat if only you have learned patience. Goethe.
[Greek: Glauk' Athênaze]—Owls to Athens.
Glebæ ascriptus—Attached to the soil. 5
Gleiches Blut, gleiches Gut, und gleiche Jahre machen die besten Heirathspaare—Like blood, like estate, and like age make the happiest wedded pair. Ger. Pr.
Gleich sei keiner dem andern; doch gleich sei jeder dem Höchsten. Wie das zu machen? Es sei jeder vollendet in sich—Let no one be like another, yet every one like the Highest. How is this to be done? Be each one perfect in himself. Goethe.
Gleich und Gleich gesellt sich gern, sprach der Teufel zum Köhler—Like will to like, as the devil said to the charcoal-burner. Ger. Pr.
Gleichheit est immer das festeste Band der Liebe—Equality is the firmest bond of love. Lessing.
Gleichheit ist das heilige Gesetz der Menschheit—Equality 10 is the holy law of humanity. Schiller.
Gli alberi grandi fanno più ombra che frutto—Large trees yield more shade than fruit. It. Pr.
Gli amici legano la borsa con un filo di ragnatelo—Friends tie their purses with a spider's thread. It. Pr.
Gli uomini alla moderna, e gli asini all' antica—After the modern stamp men, and after the ancient, asses. It. Pr.
Gli uomini fanno la roba, e le donne la conservano—Men make the wealth and women husband it. It. Pr.
Gli uomini hanno gli anni che sentono, e le 15 donne quelli che mostrano—Men are as old as they feel, and women as they look. It. Pr.
Gli uomini hanno men rispetto di offendere uno che si facci amare che uno che si facci temere—Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear. Machiavelli.
Gloria in excelsis Deo—Glory to God in the highest.
Gloria vana florece, y no grana—Glory which is not real may flower, but will never fructify. Sp. Pr.
Gloria virtutis umbra—Glory is the shadow (i.e., the attendant) of virtue.
Gloriæ et famæ jactura facienda est, publicæ 20 utilitatis causa—A surrender of glory and fame must be made for the public advantage. Cic.
Gloriam qui spreverit, veram habet—He who despises glory will have true glory. Livy.
Glories, like glow-worms, afar-off shine bright, / But looked at near, have neither heat nor light. Webster.
Glorious men are the scorn of wise men, the admiration of fools, the idols of parasites, and the slaves of their own vaunts. Bacon.
Glory and gain the industrious tribe provoke; / And gentle dulness ever loves a joke. Pope.
Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a 25 beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and fruits. Vauvenargues.
Glory grows guilty of detested crimes. Love's L. Lost, iv. 1.
Glory is like a circle in the water, / Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, / Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught. 1 Hen. VI., i. 2.
Glory is safe when it is deserved; not so popularity; the one lasts like mosaic, the other is effaced like a crayon drawing. Boufflers.
Glory is so enchanting that we love whatever we associate with it, even though it be death. Pascal.
Glory is the fair child of peril. Smollett. 30
Glory is the unanimous praise of good men. Cic.
Glory long has made the sages smile, / 'Tis something, nothing, words, illusion, wind, / Depending more upon the historian's style / Than on the name a person leaves behind. Byron.
Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts—both to an extreme. Shenstone.
Glück auf dem Weg—Good luck by the way. Ger. Pr.
Glück macht Mut—Luck inspires pluck. Goethe. 35
Glück und Weiber haben die Narren lieb—Fortune and women have a liking for fools. Ger. Pr.
Glücklich, glücklich nenn' ich den / Dem des Daseins letzte Stunde / Schlägt in seiner Kinder Mitte—Happy! happy call I him the last hour of whose life strikes in the midst of his children. Grillparzer.
Glücklich wer jung in jungen Tagen, / Glücklich wer mit Zeit gestählt, Gelernt des Lebens Ernst zu tragen—Happy he who is young in youth, happy who is hardened as steel with time, has learned to bear life's earnestness. Puschkin.
Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart as well as the pocket. Marcus Antoninus.
Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities 40 and the fountain of all our diseases. As a lamp is choked by a superabundance of oil, a fire extinguished by an excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by intemperate diet. Burton.
Gluttony kills more than the sword. Pr.
Gluttony, where it prevails, is more violent, and certainly more despicable, than avarice itself. Johnson.
Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite / The man that mocks at it and sets it light. Rich. II., i. 3.
Gnats are unnoticed whereso'er they fly, / But eagles gazed upon by every eye. Shakespeare.
[Greek: Gnôthi seauton]—Know thyself. 45
Go deep enough, there is music everywhere. Carlyle.
Go down the ladder when thou marriest a wife; go up when thou choosest a friend. Rabbi Ben Azai.
Go, miser, go; for lucre sell thy soul; / Truck wares for wares, and trudge from pole to pole. / That men may say, when thou art dead and gone: / "See what a vast estate he left his son!" Dryden.
Go, poor devil, get thee gone; why should I hurt thee? This world, surely, is wide enough to hold both thee and me. Uncle Toby to the fly that had tormented him, as he let it out by the window.
Go to Jericho and let your beards grow. See 2 Sam. x. 5.
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. Bible.
Go to your bosom; / Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know / That's like my brother's fault; if it confess / A natural guiltiness, such as his is, / Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue / Against my brother's life. Meas. for Meas., ii. 2.
Go where you may, you still find yourself in 5 a conditional world. Goethe.
Go whither thou wilt, thou shalt find no rest but in humble subjection to the government of a superior. Thomas à Kempis.
Go, wondrous creature, mount where science guides. / Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides; / Instruct the planets in what orbs to run, / Correct old Time, and regulate the sun; / Go, teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule, / Then drop into thyself and be a fool. Pope.
Go you and try a democracy in your own house. Lycurgus, to one who asked why he had not instituted a democracy.
Go, you may call it madness, folly; / You shall not chase my gloom away; / There's such a charm in melancholy, / I would not, if I could, be gay. Rogers.
Gobe-mouches—A fly-catcher; one easily gulled. 10 Fr.
God alone can properly bind up a bleeding heart. J. Roux.
God alone is true; God alone is great; alone is God. Laboulaye.
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, / And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, / A gauntlet with a gift in it. Mrs. Browning.
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it; the only choice is how. Ward Beecher.
God asks not what, but whence, thy work is: 15 from the fruit / He turns His eye away, to prove the inmost root. Trench.
God assists those who rise early in the morning. Sp. Pr.
God blesses still the generous thought, / And still the fitting word He speeds, / And truth, at His requiring taught, / He quickens into deeds. Whittier.
God blesses the seeking, not the finding. Ger. Pr.
God builds His temple in the heart and on the ruins of churches and religions. Emerson.
God comes at last, when we think He is 20 farthest off. Pr.
God comes in distress, and distress goes. Gael. Pr.
God comes to see us without bell. Pr.
God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands. Pr.
God created man in his own image. Bible.
God deals His wrath by weight, but His 25 mercy without weight. Pr.
God deceiveth thee not. Thomas à Kempis.
God defend me from the man of one book. Pr.
God desireth to make your burden light to you, for man hath been created weak. Koran.
God does not measure men by inches. Sc. Pr.
God does not pay every week, but He pays at 30 the end. Dut. Pr.
God does not require us to live on credit; He pays what we earn as we earn it, good or evil, heaven or hell, according to our choice. C. Mildmay.
God does not smite with both hands. Sp. Pr.
God does not weigh criminality in our scales. God's measure is the heart of the offender, a balance so delicate that a tear cast in the other side may make the weight of error kick the beam. Lowell.
God does with His children as a master does with his pupils; the more hopeful they are, the more work He gives them to do. Plato.
God enters by a private door into every individual. 35 Emerson.
God estimates us not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it. T. Edwards.
God gave thy soul brave wings; put not those feathers / Into a bed to sleep out all ill weathers. Herbert.
God gives all things to industry. Pr.
God gives birds their food, but they must fly for it. Dut. Pr.
God gives every bird its nest, but does not 40 throw it into the nest. J. G. Holland.
God gives his angels charge of those who sleep, / But He Himself watches with those who wake. Harriet E. H. King.
God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed. Saadi.
God gives strength to bear a great deal, if we only strive ourselves to endure. Hans Andersen.
God gives the will; necessity gives the law. Dan. Pr.
God gives us love. Something to love / He 45 lends us; but when love is grown / To ripeness, that on which it throve / Falls off, and love is left alone. Tennyson.
God giveth speech to all, song to the few. Dr. Walter Smith.
God grant you fortune, my son, for knowledge avails you little. Sp. Pr.
God hands gifts to some, whispers them to others. W. R. Alger.
God hangs the greatest weights on the smallest wires. Bacon.
God has been pleased to prescribe limits to His 50 own power, and to work out His ends within these limits. Paley.
God has commanded time to console the unhappy. Joubert.
God has connected the labour which is essential to the bodily sustenance with the pleasures which are healthiest for the heart; and while He made the ground stubborn, He made its herbage fragrant and its blossoms fair. Ruskin.
God has delegated Himself to a million deputies. Emerson.
God has given a prophet to every people in its own tongue. Arab Pr.
God has given nuts to some who have no teeth. Port. Pr.
God has given us wit and flavour, and brightness and laughter, and perfumes to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to charm his pained steps over the burning marl. Sydney Smith.
God has His little children out at nurse in many a home. Dr. Walter Smith.
God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. Ruskin.
God has made man to take pleasure in the use 5 of his eyes, wits, and body; and the foolish creature is continually trying to live without looking at anything, without thinking about anything, and without doing anything. Ruskin.
God has made sunny spots in the heart; why should we exclude the light from them? Haliburton.
God has not said all that thou hast said. Gael. Pr.
God has sunk souls in dust, that by that means they may burst their way through errors to truth, through faults to virtue, and through sufferings to bliss. Engel.
God hath anointed thee to free the oppressed and crush the oppressor. Bryant.
God hath given to man a short time here upon 10 earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends. Jeremy Taylor.
God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and you nickname God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance. Ham., iii. 1.
God hath many sharp-cutting instruments and rough files for the polishing of His jewels. Leighton.
God hath yoked to Guilt her pale tormentor, Misery. Bryant.
God help the children of dependence! Burns.
God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves. 15 Sc. Pr.
God help the rich folk, for the poor can beg. Sc. Pr.
God help the sheep when the wolf is judge. Dan. Pr.
God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow's head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel. Burns.
God helps the strongest. Ger. and Dut. Pr.
God helps those who help themselves. Pr. 20
God Himself cannot do without wise men. Luther.
God Himself cannot procure good for the wicked. Welsh Triad.
God is able to do more than man can understand. Thomas à Kempis.
God is a circle whose centre is everywhere, and its circumference nowhere. St. Augustine.
God is a creditor who has no bad debts. Ger. 25 Pr.
God is a good worker, but He loves to be helped. Basque Pr.
God is alpha and omega in the great world; endeavour to make Him so in the little world. Quarles.
God is always ready to strengthen those who strive lawfully. Thomas à Kempis.
God is a shower to the heart burnt up with grief, a sun to the face deluged with tears. Joseph Roux.
God is a sure paymaster. He may not pay 30 at the end of every week or month or year, but He pays in the end. Anne of Austria.
God is a tabula rasa, on which nothing more stands written than what thou thyself hast inscribed thereon. Luther.
God is at once the great original I and Thou. Jean Paul.
God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers. W. Penn.
God is goodness itself, and whatsoever is good is of Him. Sir P. Sidney.
God is glorified, not by our groans, but by our 35 thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer. Willmott.
God is great, and we know Him not; neither can the number of His years be searched out. Bible.
God is great in what is the greatest and the smallest. Herder.
God is greater than man. Bible.
God is His own interpreter. Cowper.
God is in heaven, and thou upon earth; therefore 40 let thy words be few. Bible.
God is in the generation of the righteous. Bible.
God is in the word "ought" and therefore it outweighs all but God. Joseph Cook.
God is kind to fou (drunk) folk and bairns. Sc. Pr.
God is light. St. John.
God is love. St. John. 45
God is more delighted in adverbs than in nouns, i.e., not in what is done so much as how it is done. Heb. Pr.
God is, nay, alone is; for with like emphasis we cannot say that anything else is. Carlyle.
God is not a man, that He should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath He said it, and shall He not do it? or hath He spoken, and shall He not make it good? Bible.
God is not found by the tests that detect you an acid or a salt. Dr. Walter Smith.
God is not so poor in felicities or so niggard in 50 His bounty that He has not wherewithal to furnish forth two worlds. W. R. Greg.
God is not to be known by marring His fair works and blotting out the evidence of His influences upon His creatures; not amidst the hurry of crowds and the crash of innovation, but in solitary places, and out of the glowing intelligences which He gave to men of old. Ruskin.
God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it dreads it. Colton.
God is patient, because eternal. St. Augustine.
God made all the creatures, and gave them our love and our fear, / To give sign we and they are His children, one family here. Browning.
God is the great composer; men are only the performers. Those grand pieces which are played on earth were composed in heaven. Balzac.
God is the light which, never seen itself, makes all things visible, and clothes itself in colours. Thine eye feels not its ray, but thine heart feels its warmth. Jean Paul.
God is the number, the weight, and the measure which makes the world harmonious and eternal. Renan.
God is the perfect poet, / Who in His person 5 acts His own creations. Browning.
God is the reason of those who have no reason. Renan.
God is where He was. Pr.
God is with every great reform that is necessary, and it prospers. Goethe.
God keep me from my friends; from my enemies I will keep myself. It. Pr.
God knows I'm no the thing I should be, / Nor 10 am I ev'n the thing I could be; / But twenty times I rather would be / An atheist clean, / Than under Gospel colours hid be, / Just for a screen. Burns.
God Konge er bedre end gammel Lov—A good king is better than an old law. Dan. Pr.
God loveth a cheerful giver. St. Paul.
God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man. Mer. of Ven., i. 2.
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas. Ward Beecher.
God made man upright, but they have sought 15 out many inventions. Bible.
God made me one man; love makes me no more / Till labour come, and make my weakness score. Herbert.
God made the country; man made the town. Cowper.
God made the flowers to beautify / The earth and cheer man's careful mood; / And he is happiest who hath power / To gather wisdom from a flower, / And wake his heart in every hour / To pleasant gratitude. Wordsworth.
God made us, and we admire ourselves. Sp. Pr.
God manifests Himself to men in all wise, 20 good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous souls. Lavater.
God may consent, but only for a time. Emerson.
God moves in a mysterious way / His wonders to perform; / He plants His footsteps in the sea, / And rides upon the storm. Cowper.
God must needs laugh outright, could such a thing be, to see His wondrous manikins here below. Hugo von Trimberg, quoted by Carlyle.
God narrows Himself to come near man, and man narrows himself to come near God. Ed.
God never forsakes His own. Pr. 25
God never imposes a duty without giving the time to do it. Ruskin.
God never made His work for man to mend. Dryden.
God never meant that man should scale the heavens / By strides of human wisdom.... He commands us in His Word / To seek Him rather where His mercy shines. Cowper.
God never pardons; the laws of the universe are irrevocable. God always pardons; sense of condemnation is but another word for penitence, and penitence is already new life. Wm. Smith.
God never sends mouths but He sends meat. 30 Dan. Pr.
God never shuts one door but He opens another. Irish Pr.
God offers to every man his choice between truth and repose. Emerson.
God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home. Joseph Roux.
God only opened His hand to give flight to a thought that He had held imprisoned from eternity. J. G. Holland.
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the 35 offence into everlasting forgetfulness. Ward Beecher.
God permits, but not for ever. Pr.
God said, Let there be light; and there was light. Bible.
God save the fools, and don't let them run out; for, without them, wise men couldn't get a living. Amer. Pr.
God save the mark. 1 Hen. IV., i. 3.
God send us some siller, for they're little 40 thought o' that want it. Sc. Pr.
God send you mair sense and me mair siller. Sc. Pr.
God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat. Tusser.
God sends meat and the devil sends cooks. It. Pr.
God sends nothing but what can be borne. It. Pr.
God should be the object of all our desires, 45 the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing power of our whole souls. Massillon.
God, sir, he gart kings ken that there was a lith in their neck. Boswell's father of Cromwell.
God stays long, but strikes at last. Pr.
God taketh an account of all things. Koran.
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. Sterne.
God the first garden made, and the first city 50 Cain. Cowley.
God, through the voice of Nature, calls the mass of men to be happy; He calls a few among them to the grander task of being severely but serenely sad. W. R. Greg.
God trusts every one with the care of his own soul. Sc. Pr.
God will accept your first attempt, not as a perfect work, but as a beginning. Ward Beecher.
God will not make Himself manifest to cowards. Emerson.
God will punish him who sees and him who is 55 seen. Eastern saying.
God, when He makes the prophet, does not unmake the man. Locke.
God works in moments. Fr. Pr.
God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers, and clouds and stars. Luther.
God's commandments are the iron door into Himself. To keep them is to have it opened, and His great heart of love revealed. S. W. Duffield.
God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself indeed in every finite form, but compromised by none. Henry James.
God's free mercy streameth / Over all the 5 world, / And His banner gleameth, / Everywhere unfurled. How.
God's goodness is the measure of His providence. More.
God's help is nearer than the door. Irish Pr.
God's in His heaven: / All's right with the world! Browning.
God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, / Rests never on the track till it reach / Delinquency. Browning.
God's men are better than the devil's men, and 10 they ought to act as though they thought they were. Ward Beecher.
God's mill grinds slow but sure. George Herbert.
God's mills grind slow, but they grind woe. Eastern saying.
God's providence is on the side of clear heads. Ward Beecher.
God's sovereignty is not in His right hand or His intellect, but His love. Ward Beecher.
Gods water over Gods akker laten loopen—Let 15 God's waters run over God's fields. Dut. Pr.
God's way of making worlds is to make them make themselves. Prof. Drummond.
Godfrey sent the thief that stole the cash away, / And punished him that put it in his way. Pope.
"Godlike men love lightning;" godless men love it not; shriek murder when they see it, shutting their eyes, and hastily putting on smoked spectacles. Carlyle.
Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. St. Paul.
Godliness with contentment is great gain. St. 20 Paul.
Godly souls have often interdicted the gratifications of the flesh in order to help their spirits in the Godward direction. John Pulsford.
Godt Haandværk har en gylden Grund—A good handicraft rests on a golden foundation. Dan. Pr.
Goed verloren, niet verloren; moed verloren, veel verloren; eer verloren, meer verloren; ziel verloren, al verloren—Money lost, nothing lost; courage lost, much lost; honour lost, more lost; soul lost, all lost. Dut. Pr.
Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence. Carlyle.
Going by railroad I do not consider as travelling 25 at all; it is merely "being sent" to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel. Ruskin.
Going to ruin is silent work. Gael. Pr.
Gold and diamonds are not riches. Ruskin.
Gold beheert de wereld—Gold rules the world. Dut. Pr.
Gold does not satisfy love; it must be paid in its own coin. Mme. Deluzy.
Gold, father of flatterers, of pain and care 30 begot, / A fear it is to have thee, and a pain to have thee not. Palladas.
Gold glitters most when virtue shines no more. Young.
Gold has wings which carry everywhere except to heaven. Rus. Pr.
Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant, accommodates itself to the meanest capacities, silences the loud and clamorous, and brings over the most obstinate and inflexible. Addison.
Gold is Cæsar's treasure, man is God's; thy gold hath Cæsar's image, and thou hast God's. Quarles.
Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his 35 defects from the world. Feltham.
Gold is the sovereign of all sovereigns. Pr.
Gold is tried in the fire, friendship in need. Dan. Pr.
Gold liegt tief im Berge, aber Koth am Wege—Gold lies deep in the mountain, but dirt on the highway. Ger. Pr.
Gold, like the sun, which melts wax and hardens clay, expands great souls and contracts bad hearts. Rivarol.
Gold that is put to use more gold begets. 40 Sh.
Gold thou may'st safely touch; but if it stick / Unto thy hands, it woundeth to the quick. Herbert.
Gold, worse poison to men's souls, / Doing more murder in this loathsome world, / Than these poor compounds that thou may'st not sell. Sh.
Gold's worth is gold. It. Pr.
Golden chains are heavy, and love is best! Dr. Walter Smith.
Golden lads and girls all must, / As chimney-sweepers, 45 come to dust. Cymb., iv. 2.
Gone for ever is virtue, once so prevalent in the state, when men deem a mischievous citizen worse than its bitterest enemy, and punish him with severer penalties. Cic.
Gone is gone; no Jew will lend upon it. Ger. Pr.
Good actions done in secret are the most worthy of honour. Pascal.
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. S. Smiles.
Good advice can be given, a good name cannot 50 be given. Turk. Pr.
Good advice / Is beyond all price. Pr.
Good advice may be communicated, but not good manners. Turk. Pr.
Good ale needs no wisp (of hay for advertisement). Sc. Pr.
Good and bad men are less so than they seem. Coleridge.
Good and evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions. Hobbes.
Good and evil will grow up in this world together; and they who complain in peace of the insolence of the populace must remember that their insolence in peace is bravery in war. Johnson.
Good and quickly seldom meet. Pr.
Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it. Emerson.
Good bees never turn drones. Pr. 5
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen, the more select the more enjoyable. A. B. Alcott.
Good bread needs baking. Pr. in Goethe.
Good-breeding carries along with it a dignity that is respected by the most petulant. Chesterfield.
Good-breeding differs, if at all, from high-breeding, only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own. Carlyle.
Good-breeding is benevolence in trifles, or the 10 preference of others to ourselves in the little daily occurrences of life. Chatham.
Good-breeding is surface Christianity. Holmes.
Good-breeding is the result of much good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others. Chesterfield.
Good-breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears least. Addison.
Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine. Emerson.
Good company and good discourse are the 15 very sinews of virtue. Izaak Walton.
Good company upon the road is the shortest cut. Pr.
Good counsel is no better than bad counsel, if it is not taken in time. Dan. Pr.
Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the giver's bosom. Goldsmith.
Good counsels observed are chains to grace. Fuller.
Good counsel tendered to fools rather provokes 20 than satisfies them. A draught of milk to serpents only increases their venom. Hitopadesa.
Good counsel without good fortune is a windmill without wind. Ger. Pr.
Good counsellors lack no clients. Meas. for Meas., i. 2.
Good courage breaks ill-luck. Pr.
Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers to make a fire next day. Sir T. Overbury.
Good discourse sinks differences and seeks 25 agreements. A. B. Alcott.
Good digestion wait on appetite, / And health on both. Macb., iii. 4.
Good example always brings forth good fruits. S. Smiles.
Good example is half a sermon. Ger. Pr.
Good fortune is the offspring of our endeavours, although there be nothing sweeter than ease. Hitopadesa.
Good gear goes in sma' book (bulk). Sc. Pr. 30
Good-humour and generosity carry the day with the popular heart all the world over. Alex. Smith.
Good-humour may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society. Thackeray.
Good hunters track closely. Dut. Pr.
Good husbandry is good divinity. Pr.
Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes 35 better. Emerson.
Good is best when soonest wrought, / Lingering labours come to nought. Southwell.
Good is good, but better carrieth it. Pr.
Good is never a something into which a man can be borne, but always a something born of the man, which he himself carries, and which does not carry him. Ed.
Good is not got without grief. Gael. Pr.
Good is the delay that makes sure. Port. 40 Pr.
Good judges are as rare as good authors. St. Evremond.
Good laws often proceed from bad manners. Pr.
Good leading makes good following. Dut. Pr.
Good luck comes by cuffing. Pr.
Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, 45 energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty. Lowell.
Good luck lies in odd numbers. Merry Wives, v. 1.
Good management is better than a good income. Port. Pr.
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. Emerson.
Good manners are part of good morals. Whately.
Good manners give integrity a bleeze, / When 50 native virtues join the arts to please. Allan Ramsay.
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company. Swift.
Good maxims are the germs of all excellence. Joubert.
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times. Ben Jonson.
Good mind, good find. Pr.
Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, / 55 Is the immediate jewel of their souls; / Who steals my purse, steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; / 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; / But he that filches from me my good name, / Robs me of that which not enriches him, / 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.