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

A ganging fit (foot) is aye getting. Sc. Pr. 20

A gauche—To the left. Fr.

Age does not make us childish, as people say; it only finds us still true children. Goethe.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years. G. W. Curtis.

Age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun. Colton.

A genius is one who is endowed with an excess 25 of nervous energy and sensibility. Schopenhauer.

Agent de change—A stockbroker. Fr.

A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene. Emerson.

A gentleman's first characteristic is fineness of nature. Ruskin.

A gentleman that will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month. Rom. and Jul., ii. 4.