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

Giff-gaff maks gude friends, i.e., mutual giving. Sc. Pr.

Gift of prophecy has been wisely denied to 35 man. Did a man foresee his life, and not merely hope it and grope it, and so by necessity and free-will make and fabricate it into a reality, he were no man, but some other kind of creature, superhuman or subterhuman. Carlyle.

Gifts are as gold that adorns the temple; grace is like the temple that sanctifies the gold. Burkett.

Gifts are often losses. It. Pr.

Gifts come from on high in their own peculiar forms. Goethe.

Gifts from the hand are silver and gold, but the heart gives that which neither silver nor gold can buy. Ward Beecher.

Gifts make their way through stone walls. 40 Pr.

Gifts weigh like mountains on a sensitive heart. Mme. Fee.

Gigni pariter cum corpore, et una / Crescere sentimus pariterque senescere mentem—We see that the mind is born with the body, that it grows with it, and also ages with it. Lucret.

Gin (if) ye hadna been among the craws, ye wadna hae been shot. Sc. Pr.