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

Grand besoin a de fol qui de soi-même le fait—He has great need of a fool who makes himself one. Fr. Pr.

Grand bien ne vient pas en peu d'heures—Great 5 wealth is not gotten in a few hours. Fr.

Grande parure—Full dress. Fr.

Grandescunt aucta labore—They grow with increase of toil. M.

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Shenstone.

Grandeur has a heavy tax to pay. Alex. Smith.

Grand parleur, grand menteur—Great talker, 10 great liar. Fr. Pr.

Grand venteur, petit faiseur—Great boaster, little doer. Fr. Pr.

Grant but memory to us, and we can lose nothing by death. Whittier.

Granted the ship comes into harbour with shrouds and tackle damaged; the pilot is blameworthy; he has not been all-wise and all-powerful; but to know how blameworthy, tell us first whether his voyage has been round the globe or only to Ramsgate and the Isle of Dogs. Carlyle.