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

Grex totus in agris / Unius scabie cadit—The entire flock in the fields dies of the disease introduced by one. Juv.

Grex venalium—A venal pack. Sueton.

Grey hairs are wisdom—if you hold your 15 tongue; / Speak—and they are but hairs, as in the young. Philo.

Grief best is pleased with grief's society. Shakespeare.

Grief boundeth where it falls, / Not with an empty hollowness, but weight. Rich. II., i. 2.

Grief divided is made lighter. Pr.

Grief fills the room up of my absent child, / Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me; / Puts on his pretty look, repeats his words, / Remembers me of all his gracious parts, / Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form: / Then have I reason to be fond of grief. King John, iii. 4.

Grief finds some ease by him that like doth 20 bear. Spenser.

Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads. Bailey.

Grief has its time. Johnson.