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

Greatness stands upon a precipice; and if prosperity carry a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces. Colton.

Greatness, thou gaudy torment of our souls, / The wise man's fetter and the rage of fools. Otway.

Greatness, with private men / Esteem'd a 5 blessing, is to me a curse; / And we, whom from our high births they conclude / The only free men, are the only slaves: / Happy the golden mean. Massinger.

Greediness bursts the bag. Pr.

Greedy folk hae lang airms. Sc. Pr.

Greedy misers rail at sordid misers. Helvetius.

Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry. Emerson.

Greek art, and all other art, is fine when it 10 makes a man's face as like a man's face as it can. Ruskin.

Greif nicht leicht in ein Wespennest, Doch wenn du greifst, so stehe fest—Attack not thoughtlessly a wasp's nest, but if you do, stand fast. M. Claudius.

Greife schnell zum Augenblicke, nur die Gegenwart ist dein—Quickly seize the moment: only the present is thine. Körner.