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 greatest truths are commonly the simplest. 40 Malesherbes.

The greatest truths are the simplest; and so are the greatest men. Hare.

The greatest vessel hath but its measure. Pr.

The greatest virtues of men are only splendid sins. Augustine. (?)

The Greeks and Romans are the only ancients who never become old. Weber.

The Greeks cared for man only, and for the 45 rest of the universe little or not at all; the moderns for the universe only, and man not at all. Ruskin.

The Greeks were the first to exalt spirit to lordship over nature; it was Christ who first taught us what that spirit is in itself. Ed.

The grey mare is the better horse. Pr.

The grief that does not speak / Whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break. Macb., iv. 3.

The grief which all hearts share grows less for one. Sir Edwin Arnold.