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

Get once into the secret of any Christian act, and you get practically into the secret of Christianity itself. Ed.

Get on the crupper of a good stout hypothesis, 5 and you may ride round the world. Sterne.

Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; / If not, by any means get wealth and place. Pope.

Get spindle and distaff ready, and God will send the flax. Pr.

Get thee to a nunnery! Ham., iii. 1.

Get to live; / Then live and use it; else it is not true / That thou hast gotten. Herbert.

Get what ye can and keep what ye hae. Sc. 10 Pr.

Get your enemies to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you. Pope.

Geteilte Freud' ist doppelt Freude—Joy shared is joy doubled. Goethe.

Gewalt ist die beste Beredsamkeit—Power is the most persuasive rhetoric. Schiller.