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

Gluttony kills more than the sword. Pr.

Gluttony, where it prevails, is more violent, and certainly more despicable, than avarice itself. Johnson.

Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite / The man that mocks at it and sets it light. Rich. II., i. 3.

Gnats are unnoticed whereso'er they fly, / But eagles gazed upon by every eye. Shakespeare.

[Greek: Gnôthi seauton]—Know thyself. 45

Go deep enough, there is music everywhere. Carlyle.

Go down the ladder when thou marriest a wife; go up when thou choosest a friend. Rabbi Ben Azai.

Go, miser, go; for lucre sell thy soul; / Truck wares for wares, and trudge from pole to pole. / That men may say, when thou art dead and gone: / "See what a vast estate he left his son!" Dryden.

Go, poor devil, get thee gone; why should I hurt thee? This world, surely, is wide enough to hold both thee and me. Uncle Toby to the fly that had tormented him, as he let it out by the window.

Go to Jericho and let your beards grow. See 2 Sam. x. 5.