Good taste cannot supply the place of genius 15 in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be not to write at all. Mme. de Staël.
Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind. La Roche.
Good taste is the flower of good sense. A. Poincelot.
Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired. Mme. Girardin.
Good the more / Communicated more abundant grows. Milton.
Good things take time. Dut. Pr. 20
Good thoughts are no better than good dreams unless they be executed. Emerson.
Good to begin well, but better to end well. Pr.
Good to the heels the well-worn slipper feels / When the tired player shuffles off the buskin; / A page of Hood may do a fellow good / After a scolding from Carlyle or Ruskin. Lowell.
Good unexpected, evil unforeseen, / Appear by turns, as fortune shifts the scene; / Some rais'd aloft, come tumbling down amain / And fall so hard, they bound and rise again. Lord Lansdowne.
Good ware makes a quick market. Pr. 25
Good-will is everything in morals, but nothing in art; in art, capability alone is anything. Schopenhauer.
Good-will, like a good name, is got by many actions and lost by one. Jeffrey.
Good wine is a good familiar creature, if it be well used. Othello, ii. 3.
Good wine is its own recommendation. Dut. Pr.
Good wine needs no brandy. Amer. Pr. 30
Good wine needs no bush, i.e., advertisement. Pr.
Good women grudge each other nothing, save only clothes, husbands, and flax. Jean Paul.
Good words and no deeds. Pr.
Good words cool more than cold water. Pr.
Good words cost nothing and are worth much. 35 Pr.
Good words do more than hard speeches; as the sunbeams, without any noise, will make the traveller cast off his cloak, which all the blustering winds could not do, but only make him bind it closer to him. Leighton.
Good works will never save you, but you will never be saved without them. Pr.
Good writing and brilliant discourse are perpetual allegories. Emerson.
Goodman Fact is allowed by everybody to be a plain-spoken person, and a man of very few words; tropes and figures are his aversion. Addison.
Goodness and being in the gods are one; / He 40 who imputes ill to them makes them none. Euripides.
Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. Chapin.
Goodness is beauty in its best estate. Marlowe.
Goodness is everywhere, and is everywhere to be found, if we will only look for it. P. Desjardins.
Gorgons, and hydras, and chimæras dire. Milton.
Gossiping and lying go hand in hand. Pr. 45
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker. George Eliot.
Gott hilft nur dann, wenn Menschen nicht mehr helfen—God comes to our help only when there is no more help for us in man. Schiller.
Gott ist ein unaussprechlicher Seufzer, in Grunde der Seele gelegen—God is an unutterable sigh planted in the depth of the soul. Jean Paul.
Gott ist eine leere Tafel, auf der / Nichts weiter steht, als was du selbst / Darauf geschrieben—God is a blank tablet on which nothing further is inscribed than what thou hast thyself written thereupon. Luther.
Gott ist mächtiger und weiser als wir; darum 50 macht er mit uns nach seinem Gefallen—God is mightier and wiser than we; therefore he does with us according to his good pleasure. Goethe.
Gott ist überall, ausser wo er seinem Statthalter hat—God is everywhere except where his vicar is. Ger. Pr.
Gottlob! wir haben das Original—God be praised, we have still the original. Lessing.
Gott macht gesund, und der Doktor kriegt das Geld—God cures us, and the doctor gets the fee. Ger. Pr.
Gott mit uns—God with us. Ger.
Gott 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.
Grandeur 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 sweetness 10 of speech, a great degree of kindness and the appearance of awe, are always tokens of a man's attachment. Hitopadesa.
Great barkers are nae biters. Sc. Pr.
Great boast, small roast. Pr.
Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. H. Mann.
Great causes are never tried on their merits; but the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the partisans, and the contention is ever hottest on minor matters. Emerson.
Great countries are those that produce great 15 men. Disraeli.
Great cowardice is hidden by a bluster of daring. Lucan.
Great cry but little wool, as the devil said when he shear'd his hogs. Pr.
Great deeds cannot die; / They with the sun and moon renew their light, / For ever blessing those that look on them. Tennyson.
Great deeds immortal are—they cannot die, / Unscathed by envious blight or withering frost, / They live, and bud, and bloom; and men partake / Still of their freshness, and are strong thereby. Aytoun.
Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm. 20 Joseph Roux.
Great edifices, like great mountains, are the work of ages. Victor Hugo.
Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness. Goethe.
Great, ever fruitful; profitable for reproof, for encouragement, for building up in manful purposes and works, are the words of those that in their day were men. Carlyle.
Great evils one triumphs over bravely, but the little eat away one's heart. Mrs. Carlyle.
Great fleas have little fleas / Upon their backs 25 to bite 'em; / And little fleas have lesser fleas, / And so ad infinitum. Lowell.
Great folks have five hundred friends because they have no occasion for them. Goldsmith.
Great fools have great bells. Dut. Pr.
Great genial power consists in being altogether receptive. Emerson.
Great geniuses have always the shortest biographies. Emerson.
Great gifts are for great men. Pr. 30
Great God, I had rather be / A Pagan suckled in some creed outworn; / So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, / Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn. Wordsworth.
Great grief makes those sacred upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate. H. Greeley.
Great griefs medicine the less. Cymbeline, iv. 2.
Great haste makes great waste. Ben. Franklin.
Great honours are great burdens; but on 35 whom / They're cast with envy, he doth bear two loads. Ben Jonson.
Great joy is only earned by great exertion. Goethe.
Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great the man to whom all his plate is no more than earthenware. Sen.
Great is not great to the greater. Sir P. Sidney.
Great is self-denial! Life goes all to ravels and tatters where that enters not. Carlyle.
Great is song used to great ends. Tennyson. 40
Great is the soul, and plain. It is no flatterer, it is no follower; it never appeals from itself. Emerson.
Great is the strength of an individual soul true to its high trust; mighty is it, even to the redemption of a world. Mrs. Child.
Great is truth, and mighty above all things. Apocrypha.
Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man. Carlyle.
Great joy, especially after a sudden change 45 and revolution of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue. Fielding.
Great knowledge, if it be without vanity, is the most severe bridle of the tongue. Jeremy Taylor.
Great lies are as great as great truths, and prevail constantly and day after day. Thackeray.
Great lords have great hands, but they do not reach to heaven. Dan. Pr.
Great Mammon!—greatest god below the sky. Spenser.
Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy. Arist.
Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people. G. S. Hillard.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. Schopenhauer.
Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality. Emerson.
Great men are never sufficiently known but in 5 struggles. Burke.
Great men are not always wise. Bible.
Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges. T. W. Higginson.
Great men are sincere. Emerson.
Great men are the fire-pillars in this dark pilgrimage of mankind; they stand as heavenly signs, ever-living witnesses of what has been, prophetic tokens of what may still be, the revealed, embodied possibilities of human nature. Carlyle.
Great Men are the inspired (speaking and 10 acting) Texts of that Divine Book of Revelations, whereof a Chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History. Carlyle.
Great men are the modellers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain. Carlyle.
Great men are the true men, the men in whom Nature has succeeded. Amiel.
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. Emerson.
Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous. Emerson.
Great men do not play stage tricks with the 15 doctrines of life and death; only little men do that. Ruskin.
Great men essay enterprises because they think them great, and fools because they think them easy. Vauvenargues.
Great men get more by obliging inferiors than by disdaining them. South.
Great men, great nations have ever been perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it. Emerson.
Great men have their parasites. Sydney Smith.
Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by 20 being near us; ordinary men gain much. Landor.
Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them, / But in the less, foul profanation. Meas. for Meas., ii. 2.
Great men need to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas or perform their great deeds; that is, there must be an atmosphere of greatness round about them. A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world. Hawthorne.
Great men not only know their business, but they usually know that they know it, and are not only right in their main opinions, but they usually know that they are right in them. Ruskin.
Great men oft die by vile Bezonians. 2 Hen. VI., iv. 1.
Great men often rejoice at crosses of fortune, 25 just as brave soldiers do at wars. Sen.
Great men or men of great gifts you will easily find, but symmetrical men never. Emerson.
Great men, said Themistocles, are like the oaks, under the branches of which men are happy in finding a refuge in the time of storm and rain; but when they have to pass a sunny day under them, they take pleasure in cutting the bark and breaking the branches. Goethe.
Great men should drink with harness on their throats. Tim. of Athens, i. 2.
Great men should think of opportunity, and not of time. Time is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits. Disraeli.
Great men stand like solitary towers in the 30 city of God, and secret passages running deep beneath external Nature give their thoughts intercourse with higher intelligences, which strengthens and consoles them, and of which the labourers on the surface do not even dream. Longfellow.
Great men, though far above us, are felt to be our brothers; and their elevation shows us what vast possibilities are wrapped up in our common humanity. They beckon us up the gleaming heights to whose summits they have climbed. Their deeds are the woof of this world's history. Moses Harvey.
Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for. Landor.
Great men will always pay deference to greater. Landor.
Great minds erect their never-failing trophies on the firm base of mercy. Massinger.
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous 35 applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. Colton.
Great minds, like Heaven, are pleased in doing good, / Though the ungrateful subjects of their favours / Are barren in return. Rowe.
Great minds seek to labour for eternity. All other men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds are excited by the prospect of distant good. Schiller.
Great names stand not alone for great deeds; they stand also for great virtues, and, doing them worship, we elevate ourselves. H. Giles.
Great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions. Lowell.
Great passions are incurable diseases; the 40 very remedies make them worse. Goethe.
Great patriots must be men of great excellence; this alone can secure to them lasting admiration. H. Giles.
Great people and champions are special gifts of God, whom He gives and preserves; they do their work and achieve great actions, not with vain imaginations or cold and sleepy cogitations, but by motion of God. Luther.
Great pleasures are much less frequent than great pains. Hume.
Great poets are no sudden prodigies, but slow results. Lowell.
Great poets try to describe what all men see 45 and to express what all men feel; if they cannot describe it, they let it alone. Ruskin.
Great profits, great risks. Chinese Pr.
Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step. S. Smiles.
Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation. Disraeli.
Great souls are always royally submissive, reverent to what is over them; only small, mean souls are otherwise. Carlyle.
Great souls are not cast down by adversity. Pr.
Great souls are not those which have less 5 passion and more virtue than common souls, but only those which have greater designs. La Roche.
Great souls attract sorrows as mountains do storms. But the thunder-clouds break upon them, and they thus form a shelter for the plains around. Jean Paul.
Great souls care only for what is great. Amiel.
Great souls endure in silence. Schiller.
Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own. Dryden.
Great spirits and great business do keep out 10 this weak passion (love). Bacon.
Great talents are rare, and they rarely recognise themselves. Goethe.
Great talents have some admirers, but few friends. Niebuhr.
Great talkers are like leaky pitchers, everything runs out of them. Pr.
Great talkers are little doers. Pr.
Great thieves hang little ones. Ger. 15
Great things are done when men and mountains meet; / These are not done by jostling in the street. Wm. Blake.
Great things through greatest hazards are achiev'd, / And then they shine. Beaumont.
Great thoughts and a pure heart are the things we should beg for ourselves from God. Goethe.
Great thoughts come from the heart. Vauvenargues.
Great thoughts, great feelings come to them, / 20 Like instincts, unawares. M. Milnes.
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts. Hazlitt.
Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul, like cages to birds or pounds to beasts. Charron.
Great warmth at first is the certain ruin of every great achievement. Doth not water, although ever so cool, moisten the earth? Hitopadesa.
Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done. Bovee.
Great wealth, great care. Dut. Pr. 25
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, / And thin partitions do their bounds divide. Dryden.
Great wits to madness nearly are allied; / Both serve to make our poverty our pride. Emerson.
Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice. Leigh Hunt.
Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Johnson.
Great writers and orators are commonly economists 30 in the use of words. Whipple.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Jesus.
Greater than man, less than woman. Essex, of Queen Elizabeth.
Greatest scandal waits on greatest state. Shakespeare.
Greatly to find quarrel in a straw, / When honour's at the stake. Ham., iv. 4.
Greatness and goodness are not means, but 35 ends. Coleridge.
Greatness appeals to the future. Emerson.
Greatness, as we daily see it, is unsociable. Landor.
Greatness can only be rightly estimated when minuteness is justly reverenced. Greatness is the aggregation of minuteness; nor can its sublimity be felt truthfully by any mind unaccustomed to the affectionate watching of what is least. Ruskin.
Greatness doth not approach him who is for ever looking down. Hitopadesa.
Greatness envy not; for thou mak'st thereby / 40 Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater. Herbert.
Greatness, in any period and under any circumstances, has always been rare. It is of elemental birth, and is independent alike of its time and its circumstances. W. Winter.
Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration. Matthew Arnold.
Greatness is its own torment. Theodore Parker.
Greatness is like a laced coat from Monmouth Street, which fortune lends us for a day to wear, to-morrow puts it on another's back. Fielding.
Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable 45 thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made man: teach, or preach, or labour as you will, everlasting difference is set between one man's capacity and another's; and this God-given supremacy is the priceless thing, always just as rare in the world at one time as another.... And nearly the best thing that men can generally do is to set themselves, not to the attainment, but the discovery of this: learning to know gold, when we see it, from iron-glance, and diamond from flint-sand, being for most of us a more profitable employment than trying to make diamonds of our own charcoal. Ruskin.
Greatness is nothing unless it be lasting. Napoleon.
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right using of strength. He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. Ward Beecher.
Greatness may be present in lives whose range is very small. Phil. Brooks.
Greatness of mind is not shown by admitting small things, but by making small things great under its influence. He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great. Ruskin.
Greatness, once and for ever, has done with opinion. Emerson.
Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, / Must fall out with men too; what the declined is, / He shall as soon read in the eyes of others / As feel in his own fall. Troil. and Cress., iii. 3.
Greatness stands upon a precipice; and if prosperity carry a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces. Colton.
Greatness, thou gaudy torment of our souls, / The wise man's fetter and the rage of fools. Otway.
Greatness, with private men / Esteem'd a 5 blessing, is to me a curse; / And we, whom from our high births they conclude / The only free men, are the only slaves: / Happy the golden mean. Massinger.
Greediness bursts the bag. Pr.
Greedy folk hae lang airms. Sc. Pr.
Greedy misers rail at sordid misers. Helvetius.
Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry. Emerson.
Greek art, and all other art, is fine when it 10 makes a man's face as like a man's face as it can. Ruskin.
Greif nicht leicht in ein Wespennest, Doch wenn du greifst, so stehe fest—Attack not thoughtlessly a wasp's nest, but if you do, stand fast. M. Claudius.
Greife schnell zum Augenblicke, nur die Gegenwart ist dein—Quickly seize the moment: only the present is thine. Körner.
Grex totus in agris / Unius scabie cadit—The entire flock in the fields dies of the disease introduced by one. Juv.
Grex venalium—A venal pack. Sueton.
Grey hairs are wisdom—if you hold your 15 tongue; / Speak—and they are but hairs, as in the young. Philo.
Grief best is pleased with grief's society. Shakespeare.
Grief boundeth where it falls, / Not with an empty hollowness, but weight. Rich. II., i. 2.
Grief divided is made lighter. Pr.
Grief fills the room up of my absent child, / Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me; / Puts on his pretty look, repeats his words, / Remembers me of all his gracious parts, / Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form: / Then have I reason to be fond of grief. King John, iii. 4.
Grief finds some ease by him that like doth 20 bear. Spenser.
Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads. Bailey.
Grief has its time. Johnson.
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can, and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. Lamartine.
Grief is a species of idleness, and the necessity of attention to the present, preserves us from being lacerated and devoured by sorrow for the past. Dr. Johnson.
Grief is a stone that bears one down, but two 25 bear it lightly. W. Hauff.
Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. James Martineau.
Grief is proud and makes his owner stout. King John, iii. 1.
Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses. Wycherley.
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. Disraeli.
Grief is the culture of the soul; it is the true 30 fertiliser. Mme. de Girardin.
Grief, like a tree, has tears for its fruit. Philemon.
Grief makes one hour ten. Rich. II., i. 3.
Grief or misfortune seems to be indispensable to the development of intelligence, energy, and virtue. Fearon.
Grief sharpens the understanding and strengthens the soul, whereas joy seldom troubles itself about the former, and makes the latter either effeminate or frivolous. F. Schubert.
Grief 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.
Gutta fortunæ præ dolio sapientiæ—A drop of good fortune rather than a cask of wisdom. Pr.
Ha! lass dich den Teufel bei einem Haar fassen, und du bist sein auf ewig—Ha! let the devil seize thee by a hair, and thou art his for ever. Lessing.
Ha! welche Lust, Soldat zu sein—Ah! what a pleasure it is to be a soldier. Boieldieu.
Hab' mich nie mit Kleinigkeiten abgegeben—I 45 have never occupied myself with trifles. Schiller.
"Habe gehabt," ist ein armer Mann—"I have had," is a poor man. Ger. Pr.
Habeas corpus—A writ to deliver one from prison, and show reason for his detention, with a view to judge of its justice, lit. you may have the body. L.
Habeas corpus ad prosequendum—You may bring up the body for the purpose of prosecution. L. Writ.
Habeas corpus ad respondendum—You may bring up the body to make answer. L. Writ.
Habeas corpus ad satisfaciendum—You may 50 bring up the body to satisfy. L. Writ.
Habemus confitentem reum—We have the confession of the accused. L.
Habemus luxuriam atque avaritiam, publice egestatem, privatim opulentiam—We have luxury and avarice, but as a people poverty, and in private opulence. Cato in Sall.
Habent insidias hominis blanditiæ mali—Under the fair words of a bad man there lurks some treachery. Phaedr.
Habent sua fata libelli—Books have their destinies. Hor.
Habeo senectuti magnam gratiam, quæ mihi sermonis aviditatem auxit—I owe it to old age, that my relish for conversation is so increased. Cic.
Habere derelictui rem suam—To neglect one's affairs. Aul. Gell.
Habere et dispertire—To have and to distribute.
Habere facias possessionem—You shall cause to take possession. L. Writ.
Habere, non haberi—To hold, not to be held. 5
Habet aliquid ex iniquo omne magnum exemplum, quod contra singulos, utilitate publica rependitur—Every great example of punishment has in it some tincture of injustice, but the wrong to individuals is compensated by the promotion of the public good. Tac.
Habet iracundia hoc mali, non vult regi—There is in anger this evil, that it will not be controlled. Sen.
Habet salem—He has wit; he is a wag.
Habit and imitation are the source of all working and all apprenticeship, of all practice and all learning, in this world. Carlyle.
Habit gives endurance, and fatigue is the best 10 nightcap. Kincaid.
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. St. Augustine.
Habit is a cable. We weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it. Horace Mann.
Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Pascal.
Habit is necessary to give power. Hazlitt.
Habit is ten times nature. Wellington. 15
Habit is the deepest law of human nature. Carlyle.
Habit is the purgatory in which we suffer for our past sins. George Eliot.
Habit is too arbitrary a master for my liking. Lavater.
Habit, with its iron sinews, clasps and leads us day by day. Lamartine.
Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables. 20 Pr.
Habits (of virtue) are formed by acts of reason in a persevering struggle through temptation. Bernard Gilpin.
Habits leave their impress upon the mind, even after they are given up. Spurgeon.
Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime. Douglas Jerrold.
Hablar sin pensar es tirar sin encarar—Speaking without thinking is shooting without taking aim. Sp. Pr.
Hac mercede placet—I accept the terms. 25
Hac sunt in fossa Bedæ venerabilis ossa—In this grave lie the bones of the Venerable Bede. Inscription on Bede's tomb.
Hac urget lupus, hac canis—On one side a wolf besets you, on the other a dog. Hor.
Hactenus—Thus far.
Had Cæsar or Cromwell changed countries, the one might have been a sergeant and the other an exciseman. Goldsmith.
Had God meant me to be different, He would 30 have created me different. Goethe.
Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal / I serv'd my king, He would not in mine age / Have left me naked to mine enemies. Hen. VIII., iii. 2.
Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; so ready are we to judge from the event. Euripides.
Had not God made this world, and death too, it were an insupportable place. Carlyle.
Had religion been a mere chimæra, it would long ago have been extinct; were it susceptible of a definite formula, that formula would long ago have been discovered. Renan.
Had sigh'd to many, though he loved but one. 35 Byron.
Had we never loved sae kindly, / Had we never loved sae blindly, / Never met or never parted, / We had ne'er been broken-hearted! Burns.
Hæ nugæ seria ducent / In mala—These trifles will lead to serious mischief. Hor.
Hæ tibi erant artes, pacisque imponere morem, / Parcere subjectis et debellare superbos—These shall be thy arts, to lay down the law of peace, to spare the conquered, and to subdue the proud. Virg.
Hae you gear (goods), or hae you nane, / Tine (lose) heart, and a's gane. Sc. Pr.
Hæc a te non multum abludit imago—This 40 picture bears no small resemblance to yourself. Hor.
Hæc amat obscurum; volet hæc sub luce videri, / Judicis argutum quæ non formidat acumen; / Hæc placuit semel; hæc decies repetita placebit—One (poem) courts the shade; another, not afraid of the critic's keen eye, chooses to be seen in a strong light; the one pleases but once, the other will still please if ten times repeated. Hor.
Hæc brevis est nostrorum summa malorum—Such is the short sum of our evils. Ovid.
Hæc ego mecum / Compressis agito labris; ubi quid datur oti, / Illudo chartis—These things I revolve by myself with compressed lips, When I have any leisure, I amuse myself with my writings. Hor.
Hæc est condicio vivendi, aiebat, eoque / Responsura tuo nunquam est par fama labori—"Such is the lot of life," he said, "and so your merits will never receive their due meed of praise." Hor.
Hæc generi incrementa fides—This fidelity will 45 bring new glory to our race. M.
Hæc olim meminisse juvabit—It will be a joy to us to recall this, some day. Virg.
Hæc omnia transeunt—All these things pass away. M.
Hæc perinde sunt, ut illius animus, qui ea possidet. / Qui uti scit, ei bona, illi qui non utitur recte, mala—These things are exactly according to the disposition of him who possesses them. To him who knows how to use them, they are blessings; to him who does not use them aright, they are evils. Ter.
Hæc prima lex in amicitia sanciatur, ut neque rogemus res turpes, nec faciamus rogati—Be this the first law established in friendship, that we neither ask of others what is dishonourable, nor ourselves do it when asked. Cic.
Hæc scripsi non otii abundantia, sed amoris 50 erga te—I have written this, not as having abundance of leisure, but out of love for you. Cic.
Hæc studia adolescentiam alunt, senectutem oblectant, secundas res ornant, adversis solatium ac perfugium præbent, delectant domi, non impediunt foris, pernoctant nobiscum, peregrinantur, rusticantur—These studies are the food of youth and the consolation of old age; they adorn prosperity and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home and are no encumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats. Cic.
Hæc studia oblectant—These studies are our delight. M.
Hæc sunt jucundi causa cibusque mali—These things are at once the cause and food of this delicious malady. Ovid.
Hæc vivendi ratio mihi non convenit—This mode of living does not suit me. Cic.
Hæredis fletus sub persona risus est—The 5 weeping of an heir is laughter under a mask. Pr.
Hæreditas nunquam ascendit—The right of inheritance never lineally ascends. L.
Hæres jure repræsentationis—An heir by right of representation. L.
Hæres legitimus est quem nuptiæ demonstrant—He is the lawful heir whom marriage points out as such. L.
Hæret lateri lethalis arundo—The fatal shaft sticks deep in her side. Virg.
Halb sind sie kalt, Halb sind sie roh—Half of 10 them are without heart, half without culture. Goethe.
Half a house is half a hell. Ger. Pr.
Half a loaf is better than no bread. Pr.
Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage. Emerson.
Half a word fixed upon, or near, the spot is worth a cartload of recollection. Gray to Palgrave.
Half the ease of life oozes away through the 15 leaks of unpunctuality. Anon.
Half the gossip of society would perish if the books that are truly worth reading were but read. George Dawson.
Half the ills we hoard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them. Barry Cornwall.
Half the logic of misgovernment lies in this one sophistical dilemma: if the people are turbulent, they are unfit for liberty; if they are quiet, they do not want liberty. Macaulay.
Half-wits greet each other. Gael. Pr.
Hältst du Natur getreu im Augenmerk, / 20 Frommt jeder tüchtige Meister dir: / Doch klammerst du dich blos an Menschenwerk, / Wird alles, was du schaffst, Manier—If you keep Nature faithfully in view, the example of every thorough master will be of service to you; but if you merely cling to human work, all that you do will be but mannerism. Geibel.
Hanc personam induisti, agenda est—You have assumed this part, and you must act it out. Sen.
Hanc veniam petimusque damusque vicissim—We both expect this privilege, and give it in return. Hor.
Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd. / Or waked to ecstacy the living lyre. Gray.
Handsome is that handsome does. Pr.
Handsomeness is the more animal excellence, 25 beauty the more imaginative. Hare.
Häng' an die grosse Glocke nicht / Was jemand im Vertrauen spricht—Blaze not abroad to others what any one confides to you in secret. Claudius.
Hang a thief when he's young, and he'll no steal when he's auld. Sc. Pr.
Hang constancy! you know too much of the world to be constant, sure. Fielding.
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat, / And therefore let's be merry. G. Wither.
Hänge nicht alles auf einen Nagel—Hang not 30 all on one nail. Ger. Pr.
Hanging and wiving goes by destiny. Mer. of Ven., ii. 9.
Hannibal ad portas—Hannibal is at the gates. Cic.
Hap and mishap govern the world. Pr.
Happiest they of human race, / To whom God has granted grace / To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, / To lift the latch and force the way; / And better had they ne'er been born, / Who read to doubt, or read to scorn. Scott.
Happily to steer / From grave to gay, from 35 lively to severe. Pope.
Happiness consists in activity; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool. J. M. Good.
Happiness depends not on the things, but on the taste. La Roche.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked up in strangers' galleries. Douglas Jerrold.
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops. Goethe.
Happiness is a chimæra and suffering a reality. 40 Schopenhauer.
Happiness is "a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion." Quoted by Sterne.
Happiness is but a dream, and sorrow a reality. Voltaire.
Happiness is deceitful as the calm that precedes the hurricane, smooth as the water on the verge of the cataract, and beautiful as the rainbow, that smiling daughter of the storm. Arliss' Lit. Col.