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Gabriel Have you ever heard of Harry Houdini Well he wasn't like today's magicians who are only interested in television ratings. He was an artist. He could make an elephant disappear in the middle of a theater filled with people, and do you know how he did that Misdirection. by Swordfish

Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept. by Carl Lotus Becker

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America. by Theodore Harold White

Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories. by Felix Cohen

Generally we study too much and think too little. by Hary Latham Doherty

Generally when there's a lot of smoke...there's just a whole lot more smoke. by George Foreman

Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth. by Albert Einstein

Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. (said of Mahatma Gandhi) by Albert Einstein

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. by Kahlil Gibran

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do. by Kahlil Gibran

Generosity with strings is not generosity It is a deal. by Marya Mannes

Genius - To know without having learned to draw just conclusions from unknown premises to discern the soul of things. by Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame. by Lydia M. Child

Genius is 1 inspiration and 99 perspiration. by Thomas Alva Edison

Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back. by Edgar Lee Masters

Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite. by Victor Hugo

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience. by George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon

Genius is nothing but continued attention. by Claude Adrien Helvetius

Genius is of no country. by Charles Churchill

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity. by Cesare Lombroso

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. by Thomas Alva Edison

Genius is perseverence in disguise. by Mike Newlin

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. by Denis Diderot

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind. by F Scott

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. by Elbert Hubbard

Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. by William James

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds. by Samuel Butler

Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife. by Margaret Fuller

Genius without education is like silver in the mine. by Benjamin Franklin

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. by Wystan Hugh Auden

Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football. by John Heisman

Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities. by William Bridges

Genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum. by Charles Spencer

Genuinely skillful use of obscenities is uniformly absent on the Internet. by Karl Kleinpaste

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. (To Canadian Parliament) by John Fitzgerald Kennedy

George It was the greatest feeling I ever had. Followed abruptly by the worst feeling I ever had. by Blow

George May the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face. Fred And may the winds of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars. by Blow

George Shinn. He's the owner of the Charlotte Harlots basketball team. by Ralph Kiner

George So in the end, was it worth it Jesus Christ. How irreparably changed my life has become. It's always the last days of summer and I've been left out in the cold with no door to get back in. I'll grant you I've had more than my share of poignant moments. Life passes most people by when they're busy making grand plans for it. Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent. There are no more white horses or pretty ladies at my door. by Blow

George The official toxicity limit for humans is between one and one and half grams of cocaine depending on body weight. I was averaging five grams a day, maybe more. I snorted ten grams in ten minutes once. I guess I had a high tolerance. by Blow

George Washington had a vision for this country. Was it three days of uninterrupted shopping by Jeff Melvoin

Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right. by Walt Disney

Get a good night's sleep and don't bug anybody without asking me. (To re-election campaign manager Clark MacGregor) by Richard Milhous Nixon

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. by Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything. by Frank Dane

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily. by Arthur Brisbane

Get busy living or get busy dying. by Red

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is. by Elbert Hubbard

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. by Socrates

Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure. by Sol Hurok

Get rid of imagined guilt. You did the best you could at the time, all things considered. If you made mistakes, learn to accept that we are all imperfect. Only hindsight is 20-20. If you are convinced that you have real guilt, consider professional or spiritual counseling (with a competent and trustworthy counselor). If you believe in God a pastor can help you believe also in God's forgiveness. by Amy Hillyard Jensen

Get the best out of your body that you can get. by Pat Hall

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong. by Thomas Fuller

Get thee glass eyes And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not. by Mary Bertone

Get what you can and keep what you have that's the way to get rich. by Scottish Proverb

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. by Mark Twain

Getters don't get--givers get. by Eugene Benge

Getting ahead in a difficult profession -- singing, acting, writing, whatever -- requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve. by Sophia Loren

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent. by Sophia Loren

Getting caught is the mother of invention. by Robert Byrne

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place. by Hal Lancaster

Getting ideas is like shaving if you don't do it every day, you're a bum. by Alex Kroll

Getting there isn't half the fun - it's all the fun. by Robert Townsend

Ginger He exists in a world beyond your world. What we only fantasize - he does. He lives a life where nothing is beyond. But you know what its all a facade. All his charm and charisma, his wealth, his expensive toys. He is a driven, unflinching, calculating machine. He takes what he wants and then disappears. You don't find him - he finds you. by Swordfish

Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk. by Andy Gibb

Girls just want to have funds. by Adrienne E. Gusoff

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life. by Chinese Proverb

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. by Chinese Proverb

Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state. by David Dean Rusk

Give all to love obey thy heart. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice take each man's censure but reserve thy judgement. by William Shakespeare

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself. by Desiderius Erasmus

Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score Then to that twenty, add a hundred more A thousand to that hundred so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun. by Robert Herrick

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. by Archimedes

Give me a museum, and I'll fill it. by Pablo Picasso

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. by Saint Augustine

Give me neither poverty nor riches. by Proverbs 30.8 Bible

Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods. by Esther M. Clark

Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him. by Armand Jean du Plessis Richelieu

Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward. by Saint Francis Xavier

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. by John Milton

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. by Frank Lloyd Wright

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue. by Giuseppe Garibaldi

Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling. by Walt Whitman

Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth. by Archimedes

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. - Engrved on Statue of Liberty by Emma Lazarus

Give no decision till both sides thou'st heard. by Phocylides

Give not over thy soul to sorrow and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days. by Ecclesiastes

Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway. by Mother Theresa

Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries , and you will have a fine pig and a bad child. by Danish proverb

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. by Robert G. Ingersoll

Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think. by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention. by Jim Rohn

Give yourself something to work toward--constantly. by Mary Kay Ash

Give, and forget Receive, and remember by Unknown

Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do. by Irma Kurtz

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. by H.L. Mencken

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. by Henry Louis Mencken

Giving is a necessity sometimes... more urgent, indeed, than having. by Margaret Lee Runbeck

Giving opens the way for receiving. by Florence Shinn

Glory built on selfish principles is shame and guilt. by William Cowper

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. by Napoleon

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. by Napoleon Bonaparte

Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught. by William Shakespeare

Gluttony is not a secret vice. by Orson Welles

Go after a man's weakness, and never, ever, threaten unless you're going to follow through, because if you don't, the next time you won't be taken seriously. by Roy M. Cohn

Go ahead, kill without mercy. After all, who remembers today the Armenian Genocide by Adolf Hitler

Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right. by Mark Twain

Go around asking a lot of damfool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them. by Clarence Birdseye

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. by Henry David Thoreau

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. by Henry David Thoreau

Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot. by George Herbert

Go often to the house of thy friend for weeds soon choke up the unused path. by Scandinavian Proverb

Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people they're just acquaintances. by Jay Leno

Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart for God now accepteth thy works.N.B. Eat, Drink and be merry. See also Luke 1219 by Ecclesiastes 97

Go, and never darken my towels again. by Groucho Marx

Goal achievement is hero's work. by Earnie Larsen

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them. by Stanley Lindquist

God bears with the wicked, but not forever. by Miguel de Cervantes

God bless thee and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty by William Shakespeare

God cannot alter the past, but historians can. by Samuel Butler

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom. by Johann von Goethe

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers by Anon.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he created mothers. by Jewish Proverb

God creates men, but they choose each other. by Niccolo Machiavelli

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. by Albert Einstein

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason. by Dag Hammarskjld

God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things. by Saint Augustine

God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives--DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER. by Dr. Dale E. Turner

God doesn't require us to succeed he only requires that you try. by Mother Theresa

God don't make no mistakes. That's how He got to be God. by Archie Bunker

God gave teeth He will give bread. by Lithuanian Proverb

God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me. by Thomas Huxley

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. by J. G. Holland

God gives the nuts but he does not crack them. by German proverb

God gives us our relatives- thank God we can choose our friends. by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. by Reinhold Niebuhr

God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them. by Kahlil Gibran

God has two dwellings one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. by Izaak Walton

God heals, and the doctor takes the fees. by Benjamin Franklin

God help those who do not help themselves. by Wilson Mizner

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. by Voltaire

God is a comic playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh. by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

God is a verb. by Richard Buckminster Fuller

God is in the details. by Mies van der Rohe

God is like the sun at high noon, always giving all he has. by Arthur John Gossip

God is Love -- I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is by Samuel Butler

God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project. by Anonymous

God is on everyone's side and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies. by Jean Anouilh

God is seated in the hearts of all. by Bhagavad Gita

God is the God of truth and every spiritual quality must live with that holy attribute. by Edwin Holt Hughes

God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness . It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when children are small. It is important to the point of necessity when they are adolescents. by Phyllis Mcginley

God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end. by Harvey Cox

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. by Jacques Deval

God loves the world. That's plain to see as we read His Word. Today, God loves the world through us, His Children of Grace. Christ is 'in' us and we are 'in' Christ. Christ is loving people and reaching out to them through us. He is making His appeal through us. He is reconciling people to Himself through us by Mark McGee

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. by Paul Valery

God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them. by Kahlil Gibran

God may be subtle, but He isn't mean. by Albert Einstein

God must become an activity in our consciousness. by Joel S. Goldsmith

God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on top of them. by Theodore Ledyard Cuyler

God not only plays dice, he throws them in the corner where you can't see them. by Stephen William Hawking

God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. by Sir William Bragg

God save me from my friends. I can protect myself from my enemies. by Claude Louis Hector de Villars

God sells knowledge for labour -- honour for risk. by Arabic Proverb

God will be present, whether asked or not. by Latin Proverb

God writes a lot of comedy the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. by Garrison Keillor

God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees, and flowers, and clouds, and stars. by Martin Luther

God's people have no assurances that the dark experiences of life will be held at bay, much less that God will provide some sort of running commentary on the meaning of each day's allotment of confusion, boredom, pain, or achievement. by David Wells

God, give me courage to do what I can, humility to admit what I can't, and wisdom to know the difference. by B. J. Gupta

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. by Reinhold Niebuhr

God, I dont have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it. by Real Live Preacher

God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen. by Alcoholics Anonymous Prayer

God, to me, it seems, is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper. by Richard Buckminster Fuller

Gods are fragile things they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. by Chapman Cohen

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car. by Laurence J. Peter

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still by J. Paul Getty

Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at. by Jimmy Demaret

Golf is a good walk spoiled. by Mark Twain

Golf is like a love affair if you don't take it seriously, it's no fun. If you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart. by Arnold Daly

Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around. by Rick Reilly

Golf is very much like a love affair, if you don't take it seriously, it's no fun, if you do, it breaks your heart. Don't break your heart, but flirt with the possibility. by Louise Suggs

Golf isn't a game, it's a choice that one makes with one's life. by Charles Rosin

Gonzo leaps like a giraffe and grabs it. by Jerry Coleman

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it. by Agatha Christie

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. by Mark Twain

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after. by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. by Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. by Izaak Walton

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today. by John C. Maxwell

Good food ends with good talk. by Geoffrey Neighor

Good friends are good for your health. by Dr. Irwin Sarason

Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow. by Elias Boudinot

Good habits result from resisting temptation. by Ancient Proverb

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted. by Ralph W. Sockman

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society. by William Makepeace Thackeray

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience. by Hyman Rickover

Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters. by Daniel Webster

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement. by Unknown

Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement. by Fred Brooks

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. by Barry LePatner

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment. by Rita Mae Brown

Good laws have their origins in bad morals. by Ambrosius Macrobius

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning. by Warren Bennis

Good leaders must first become good servants. by Robert Greenleaf

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. by Paul Hawken

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. by Clarence Thomas

Good men must be affectionate men. by Samuel Richardson

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. by Danish proverb

Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls Who steals my purse steals trash 'tis something, nothing 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed. by William Shakespeare

Good night, good night parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow. by William Shakespeare

Good nonsense is good sense in disguise. by Josh Billings

Good order is the foundation of all things. by Edmund Burke

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. by William Saroyan

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. by William Saroyan

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. by Plato

Good plans shape good decisions. That's why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true. by Lester R Bittel

Good questions outrank easy answers. by Paul A. Samuelson

Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess. by Rene Descartes

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics. by Cesare Lombroso

Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance. by Lois McMaster Bujold

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented. by Edith Sitwell

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. by Gail Godwin

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. by Gail

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit. by James Allen

Good timber does not grow with ease the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees. by J. Willard Marriott

Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite. by Edward Albee

Good, better, best never let it rest till your good is better and your better is best. by Anon.

Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. by George Saunders

Goodbye cruel world. by Gloria Shayne

Goodbye, and hello, as always. by Roger Zelazny

Goodbye, goodbye, I hate the word. Solitude has long since turned brown and withered, sitting bitter in my mouth and heavy in my veins. by R. M. Grenon

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness. by Athenus

Goodness is easier to recognize than to define. by Wystan Hugh Auden

Goodness is the only investment that never fails. by Henry David Thoreau

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed. by Reinhold Niebuhr

Gossip needs no carriage. by Assyrian Proverb

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it. by Lao Tzu

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free. by Bhagavad Gita

Government cannot make us equal it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. by Clarence Thomas

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have right that these wants should be provided for, including the want of a sufficient restraint upon their passions. by Edmund Burke

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. by Ronald Reagan

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. by George Washington

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians. by Claire Huchet Bishop

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians. by Chester Bowles

Government never furthered any enterprise but the alacrity with which it got out of the way. by Henry David Thoreau

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it. by Ronald Reagan

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one. by Thomas Paine

Government, is the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government. by MacKenzie King

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected. by Johathan Edwards

Grace is not against good works It simply does not bless on the basis of good works. We receive blessing from God based solely on the merits of His Son--blessings freely given to us in Christ and nowhere else. The completeness that is in Christ mean deliverance from trying to 'be good' and 'do right' in order to be accepted by God. by Richard Jordan

Grace Oh, he's very popular Ed. The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies, dickheads--they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude. by Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Grade school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life. by John Rogers

Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge. by Ivon Petrovich Pavlov

Graham See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles Or do you believe that people just get lucky Or, look at the question this way Is it possible that there are no coincidences by Signs

Graham Swing away Merrill. Merrill... swing away. by Signs

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart. by Martin Luther

Grant us a brief delay impulse in everything is but a worthless servant. by Caecilius Statius

Grant, Lord, that we might overcome our enemies by transforming them into friends. Make them and make us conscious of those deep inward reaches whereby every heart is rooted in our world's deep common life. by Jewish Prayer

Grasp the subject, the words will follow. by Cato the Elder

Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies. by Charles E. Jefferson

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. by La Rochefoucauld

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. by Cicero

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. The more we seek gratitude, the more reason the angels will give us for gratitude and joy to exist in our lives. by Terry Lynn Taylor

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy. by Jacques Maritain

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. by Aesop

Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion. by Joseph Alsop

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love. by Albert Einstein

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like by John and Brand, Josh Falsey

Gray hair is a sign of age, not wisdom. by Greek Proverb

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. by Baltasar Gracian

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. by Herodotus

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself. by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings. by C. D. Jackson

Great ideas originate in the muscles. by Thomas Alva Edison

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven. by I Ching

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending. by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Great is truth, and all powerful. by Vulgate

Great men are not always wise. by Biblical Proverb

Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great men of action ... never mind on occasion being ridiculous in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk. by Oswald Mosley

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aidthem to judge for themselves. by William Ellery Channing

Great minds discuss ideas Average minds discuss events Small minds discuss people. by Unknown

Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes. by Washington Irving

Great minds think alike. by Anon.

Great minds think independently, not alike. by Unknown

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts--the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. by John Ruskin

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day. by Sally Koch

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. by Fran Lebowitz

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error. by Benjamin Disraeli

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. by Albert Einstein

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. by Albert Einstein

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off. by C. G. Jung

Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them. by Warren Bennis

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. by Vincent Van Gogh

Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous. by Chuang-tzu

Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide. by John Dryden

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. by Samuel Johnson

Great writing is a submission to a creative force that seems to use the writer as an instrument. The writer finds that the words stream out, almost as if someone else were producing them. Writing becomes a process of discovery. by S. O'Brien

Greater is our terror of the unknown. by Titus Livius

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. by Jesus

Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life. by Henry David Thoreau

Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life. by Jeremy Thorpe

Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way. by Albert Camus

Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age. by Alfred Victor Vigny

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength. by Henry Ward Beecher

Green Goblin The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the water spout. Down came the Goblin and took the spider out. by Spider-Man

Green Goblin We are who we choose to be... now, CHOOSE. by Spider-Man

Greetings on this most exceedingly beautiful spring morning. A morning swollen with new life, a morning on which, if I had the voice, I would let loose with song. It's hard to believe just a few short weeks ago we were eating our cornflakes in the wintery dark. Now, well it's still kind of dim out there, but I can see the golden glow of Apollo's chariot waiting in the wings, about to make its entrance. Winter's on the lam, no doubt. by Andrew Schneider

Greetings, I am pleased to see that we are different. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us. by Leonard Nimoy

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. by Mark Twain

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone, his own burdens, his own way. by Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh

Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. by Benjamin Disraeli

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. by Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine

Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver. by Sophocles

Grow old along with me The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made Our times are in his hand who saith, A whole I planned, Youth shows but half trust God See all, nor be afraid by Robert Browning

Grow old along with me the best is yet to be. by Robert Browning

Growing old is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. by Jack Benny

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. by Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Growth is the only evidence of life. by John Henry Newman

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. by Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown. by George Shinn

Grubb goes back, back... He's under the warning track and makes the play. by Jerry Coleman

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. by George Sand

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined. by Patrick Henry

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards. by Lois McMaster Bujold

Guilt is a rope that wears thin. by Ayn Rand

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves--at what we did or did not do. by Peter McWilliams

Gun control has not worked in D.C. The only people who have guns are criminals. We have the strictest gun laws in the nation and one of the highest murder rates. It's quicker to pull your Smith & Wesson than to dial 911 if you're being robbed. by Lowell Duckett