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 great writer does not reveal himself here 10 and there, but everywhere. Lowell.

Agree, for the law is costly. Pr.

A green winter makes a fat churchyard. Pr.

A grey eye is a sly eye; a brown one indicates a roguish humour; a blue eye expresses fidelity; while the sparkling of a dark eye is, like the ways of Providence, always a riddle. Bodenstedt.

A growing youth has a wolf in his belly. Pr.

Agues come on horseback and go away on 15 foot. Pr.

A guilty conscience needs no accuser. Pr.

A hair of the dog that bit him. Pr.

A haute voix—Loudly; audibly. Fr.

A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute. Gibbon.