Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

The gift which is to be given should be given gratuitously. Hitopadesa.

The gifted man is he who sees the essential point and leaves aside all the rest as surplusage. Carlyle.

The glass of fashion and the mould of form, / The observed of all observers. Ham., iii. 1.

The glory dies not, and the grief is past. Sir Egerton Brydges.

The glory is not in never falling, but in rising 10 every time you fall. Bovee.

The glory of a people and of an age is always the work of a small number of great men, and disappears with them. Baron de Grimm.

The glory of children are their fathers. Bible.

The glory of philosophy lies not in solving the problem, but in putting it. Renan.

The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the grey head. Bible.

The God of merely traditional believers is 15 the great Absentee of the universe. W. R. Alger.