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

Grief or misfortune seems to be indispensable to the development of intelligence, energy, and virtue. Fearon.

Grief sharpens the understanding and strengthens the soul, whereas joy seldom troubles itself about the former, and makes the latter either effeminate or frivolous. F. Schubert.

Grief should be / Like joy, majestic, equable, 35 sedate, / Conforming, cleansing, raising, making free. Aubrey de Vere (the younger).

Grief should be the instructor of the wise; / Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most / Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, / The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life. Byron.

Grief still treads upon the heels of Pleasure. Congreve.

Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless. Macaulay.

Griefs assured are felt before they come. Dryden.

Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled 40 front.... He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber, / To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. Rich. III., i. 1.

Grind the faces of the poor. Bible.

Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it is a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible. Colton.