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

Genuine morality depends on no religion, though every one sanctions it and thereby guarantees to it its support. Schopenhauer.

Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion. Bovee.

Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle. Burke.

Genus et proavos et quæ non fecimus ipsi, / 45 Vix ea nostra voco—Birth, ancestry, and what we have ourselves not done, I would hardly call our own. Ovid.

Genus humanum superavit—He surpassed the human race in natural ability. Lucret.

Genus immortale manet, multosque per annos / Stat fortuna domus, et avi numerantur avorum—The race continues immortal, and through many years the fortune of the house stands steadfast, and it numbers grandsires of grandsires. Virg.

Genus irritabile vatum—The sensitive tribe of poets.

[Greek: Gêraskô d' aei polla didaskomenos]—Always learning many things the older I grow. Solon.

Gerechtigkeit ist mehr die männliche, Menschenliebe 50 mehr die weibliche Tugend—Justice is properly the virtue of the man, charity of the woman. Schopenhauer.

Geredt ist geredt, man kann es mit keinem Schwamme abwischen—What is said is said; there is no sponge that can wipe it out. Ger. Pr.