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

Great fools have great bells. Dut. Pr.

Great genial power consists in being altogether receptive. Emerson.

Great geniuses have always the shortest biographies. Emerson.

Great gifts are for great men. Pr. 30

Great God, I had rather be / A Pagan suckled in some creed outworn; / So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, / Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn. Wordsworth.

Great grief makes those sacred upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate. H. Greeley.

Great griefs medicine the less. Cymbeline, iv. 2.

Great haste makes great waste. Ben. Franklin.

Great honours are great burdens; but on 35 whom / They're cast with envy, he doth bear two loads. Ben Jonson.

Great joy is only earned by great exertion. Goethe.