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Quotes To Keep
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Gain

"Every joy is gain.  And gain is gain, however small."  Robert Browning

"If we had to rely on the majority to bring about improvements, most of us would probably still be indentured servants."  Henry Fairlie

Gambling

"Don't play with the big boys until you have very good cards."  Khidhir Hamza and Jeff Stein,  Saddam's Bombmaker: The Terrifying...   

"Horses are supposed to be dumb animals.  But they are smart enough not to bet on people."  Thomas Sowell

"I hate gambling. ... Because I'm good at math."  Tim Dorsey,  The Big Bamboo

Game

"How many Yahtzees does it take to sink a Battleship?  Baby Blues

Garbage

"Every thing is a larval form of junk."  Bruce Sterling

"Handled sensibly, junk is a resource."  Bruce Sterling

"Junk makes us free."  Bruce Sterling

"Tomorrow's garbage is very easy to predict: it's everything that we love today."  Bruce Sterling

Garden 

"Life begins the day you start a garden."  Chinese proverb

"Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."  Alfred Austin,  The Garden That I Love

"What is paradise?  But a garden, an orchard of tree and herbs full of pleasure and nothing there but delights."  William Lawson 

Gay 

"I hope that fact that I'm gay isn't the most interesting part of me."  T. R. Knight

"There's no gay way to fill a pothole."  Unknown

Geek

"Nobody likes a math geek, Scully."  Chris Carter's Fox Mulder in The X-Files

Gems

Gender

"A lion's cubs are lions all, male and female alike."  Russian poem 

"While you're doing your job, there is no gender factor."  Julie Krone

Gene

"The more you narrow the gene pool, the greater the risk you could lose it all."  David Auerbach

"The problem with the gene pool is there's no lifeguard."   Stephen Wright

Genealogy

"Genealogy is America's second-biggest obsession, after their lawns."  Thomas Perry,  Death Benefits

"We're all part of the story."  Maria Goodwin

Generalizations

"All generalizations are false."  Unknown

Generation 

"From one generation to another, the complaint is always the same: they are not like us."  Anna Quindlen

"Nothing is more incumbent on the old than to know when they should get out of the way and relinquish to younger successors the honors they can no longer earn, and the duties they can no longer perform."  Thomas Jefferson

Genius 

"Geniuses are often misunderstood.  Like we care."  DriveOff.com ad

"Talent does what it can and genius does what it must."  Edward Bulwer-Lytton

"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him."  Jonathan Swift

Gentleness 

"Nothing is so strong as gentleness; nothing so gentle as real strength."  Unknown

Geography

"The only thing that doesn't change in this very, very changeable world is the geography."  Ken Allard,  MSNBC

Giant 

"When giants are on the move, little guys can get stomped under their feet.  Even if the giants don't mean any harm, little guys are still squashed just as flat."  Ed Foster

Gift

"A true gift is not just the object itself; it is a demonstration of understanding and caring, a reflection of both the individual who gives and the one who receives."  Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson,  House Corrino (Dune: House Trilogy, Book...

"Never give your wife an anniversary gift that needs to be plugged in."  Unknown

"One man's garbage is another man's anniversary present."   Malcolm in the Middle

"Send yourself something."  Frazier

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Globalization

"Globalization means the terrible nearness of distant places."  Okwui Enwezor

Glory 

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."  Confucius

Goal 

"A goal is just dreaming with a deadline."  Lorraine Hale

"All men seek one goal; success or happiness."  Aristotle

"Although I know the roads, I will never reach Córdoba."  Federico García Lorca

"Be what you want to seem."  Barbara Hambley

"Don't be afraid to take a big step.  You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."  David Lloyd George

"Goals are dreams with deadlines."  Naomi Judd,  Naomi's Home Companion

"I've always wanted to be somebody, but I can see now I should have been a little more specific."  Lily Tomlin

"I'd like to be taller and have more hair, and I'd like to have my site pay for itself."  Ron Galotti

"If you're single minded enough, you can get clever at anything - even stupidity."  Last of the Summer Wine

"In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail."  Cassius Longinus

"It doesn't matter how fast you run if you're not heading toward the finish line."  Jeff Levy

"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters in the end."  Ursula K. Le Guin

"It's a strange thing, I haven't won yet, but I think and feel like a rich man, and can't imagine being anything else."  Feodor Dostoyevsky,  The Gambler

"Keep your goals away from the trolls."  Peter McWilliams

"Know their (workers') strengths; build on them; have clear goals and a clear mission."  Peter Drucker

"Moral of the work:
In War - Resolution
In Defeat - Defiance
In Victory - Magnanimity

In Peace - Goodwill"  Winston Churchill

"Most people ... just want a place where they don't have to be afraid of what's coming, and they want somebody to love them."  Belva Plain,  Evergreen

"My goal is to replace my soul with coffee and become immortal."  Scott Adams,  Dilbert (Wally)

"No one travels so high as he who knows not where he is going."  Unknown

"Roll to the goal."  Malcolm in the Middle - The Complete...  

"Shoot for the moon ... even if you miss, you'll be among the stars."  Unknown

"The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed."  Floyd Jones

"The only right way to do it is to never stop until you get there."  The Weber Show

"The road is always better than the inn."   Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"The wreath or death."  Ancient Olympic expression

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." Bevery Sills

"To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working."  Dennis Weaver

"We ain't where we oughta be.  We ain't where we should be, but at least we ain't where we were."  Designing Women

"We can't cross a bridge until we come to it; but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time."  Bernard Baruch

"What makes the difference between wishing and actually realizing our wishes?  Lots of things, of course [but mainly] whether we link our wishes to our hopes and our hopes to active striving."  Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers)

"When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."  Seneca

"Without some goal and some effort to reach it, no man can live."  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"You can't get where you want to go if you don't know where you are."  Unknown

God 

"Anyone who created mankind must have a sense of humor."  Waiting for God

"God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh"  Voltaire

"God is strong and He has a good Mother."  Gaelic proverb

"I looked for God in all the temples, mosques and churches, and found Him in my heart."  Rumi

"No man may know the mind of God and it is blasphemous to presume to do so."  Jack Whyte,   The Lance Thrower

"People talk about finding God - as if He could get lost."  Unknown

"The idea of God is slightly more plausible than the alternative proposition that, given enough time, some green slime could write Shakespeare's sonnets."  Tom Stoppard

"What manner of King can be in charge of heaven if He is prepared to finish off great monarchs like me in this manner?"  Lothair I

"Your bargain with God is arranged by God, and afterward you can only walk away, and look at what you have closed in your fist, and use that as best you can."  Elizabeth McCracken,  Niagara Falls All Over Again

Gold

"Get gold ... humanely if possible, but at all costs, get gold."  King Ferdinand of Aragon and Castille

"It is hard to prospect for gold while wearing mittens."  Unknown

"The best way to tell gold is to pass the nugget around a crowded bar, and ask them if it's gold.  If it comes back, it's not gold."  Lennie Lower

"The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it."  Thomas Bradley Aldrich

"To search for gold is to look for the moon at the bottom of the sea."  Taam Sze Pui

"What gives gold value is culture.  Gold is not inherently valuable."  Charles Spencer

Golf

"Golf is a cruel game, Charlie Brown."  Linus in Charles Schulz' Peanuts

"I wished upon a little star,
In hopes I could one day shoot par.
Not only did I reach my goal,
I shot it by the seventh hole."  B.C.

Good

"A thing is called good if it is good for the person who uses it."  Erich Fromm,  Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the...

"I expect to pass through this world but once.  Any good things, therefore, that I can do, any kindness that I can show a fellow being, let me do it now.  Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."  Stephen Grellet

"In spite of everything I believe that people are really good at heart.  I simply cannot build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death."  Anne Frank

"Only God sees the heart, and nothing is known of a man's goodness until his soul is weighed in the balance."  Anne Frank

"She is good to people who are good.  She is also good to people who aren't good.  This is true goodness."  Tao Te Ching: A New English Version

"The difference between the good man and a bad one is the choice of cause."  William James

"The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention."  Duguet

Gossip

"Gossip is valuable only if it is accurate."  James Luceno,  Cloak of Deception (Star Wars)

"I never wink and tell."  Barb of Fodor's This is Why I Will Always Travel Solo From Now: Trip Report -Rome and Sorrento

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"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit by me."  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

"People will always talk about people."  Miss Manners (Judith Martin)

"The reason dogs have so many friends is because they wag their tails and not their tongues."  Unknown

Government

"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier - there's no question about it.  But dealing with Congress is a matter of give and take."  George W. Bush

"Government is not the solution, it's the problem."  Ronald Reagan

"If men were angels, no government would be necessary."  James Madison

"It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon.  Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to."  Franklin P. Jones

"Most people want nothing to happen.  That is the problem with governments these days.  They want to do things all the time; they are always very busy thinking of what things they can do next.  That is not what people want.  People want to be left alone to look after their cattle."  Alexander McCall Smith,  The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

"The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, and there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence.  Yet, government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words."  David McIntosh

"The most dangerous moment for a bad government is usually when it begins to reform itself."  Alexis de Tocqueville

"There is one thing better than good government, and that is government in which all the people have a part."  Walter Hines Page

"They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program!"  George W. Bush

"Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people."  Grover Cleveland

"We can never legislate evil out of existence; people kill people with broomsticks and bombs and their bare hands. ... We should always be wary of relying on government, but it's reasonable to weigh the Second Amendment against the common good and risk more bureaucracy; even property owners have to submit to zoning."  Newsweek

"We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex, but Congress can."  Cullen Hightower

"You can be yourself and get elected, but you can't be yourself and govern.  You have to give the correct answers."  Jesse Ventura

"You should not make policy statements from a golf cart."  Michael Feldman

Graduation

"Your close friends and relatives will be more than happy to provide a monetary gift to help you with your next step in life."  SignatureA ad

Grand Canyon  

"The Grand Canyon offers very limited shopping."  Dave Barry

Grandchildren

"The gifts that keep on giving"  For Better or Worse

Grandmother

"If nothing is going well, call your grandmother."  Italian proverb

Grant

"More paper does not make it more important."  Darlene Dunn,  March of Dimes

Grass

"The grass looks greener on the other side of the fence because you're not close enough to see the dirt."  Marilyn Vos Savant

Gratitude

"Gratitude lifts your spirit."  Maria Shriver

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

"Silent gratitude isn't much good to anyone."  G. B. Stern

Gravity 

"The fatal law of gravity:  when you are down, everything falls on you."  Sylvia Townsend

Gravy

"Life tastes better with gravy."  Henry's Chicken Fry ad

Great Wall of China

"This surely is a great wall."  Richard M. Nixon

Greatness 

"Brothers and sisters, I want to tell you this.  The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your home."  Unknown

"Every great man inevitably resents a partner in greatness."  Marcus Annaeus Lucan

"Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases."  Jeremy Collier

"Great and good are seldom the same."  Thomas Fuller

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions, small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that, you too, can become great."  Mark Twain

"Only a good people are a great people.  Only a good nation is a great nation."  David Boren

"The price of greatness is responsibility."  Winston Churchill

Greece

"We are all Greeks."  Delacroix

Greed

"Greed is alright.  I want you to know that I think greed is healthy.  You can be greedy and feel good about yourself."  Ivan Boesky

Green

"Everybody loves green."  Desperate Housewives

"Green is the color of the stuff in my nose. Caryn Kamp

"It's not easy being green."  Kermit the Frog

"You want greenery?  Order the spinach."  David Rakoff,  Fraud

Greeting card

"You and I both suffered in trying to spread religion around the world.  I hope you regain your health in the near future."  Mehemet Ali Agca (would be assassin) to Pope John Paul II

Grief

"I cried so hard, my heart hurt."  Cassie Smith, at age 7

"Our grief is lifelong.  It is an open wound we shall carry to the grave."  Nicholas I 

Growth

"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living.
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security."  Gail Sheehy

"If you want one year of prosperity, grow grain.
If you want ten years of prosperity, grow a tree.
If you want one hundred years of prosperity, grow people."  Unknown

"The ironic part about life is you can never maximize personal growth without being put in difficult situations."  James Crupi

"Unless you keep challenging yourself, you're not going to grow."  Steve Zades

"Whoever has dreams can attain them.  Whoever sets goals can reach them.  And whoever creates ideas, grows."  GTE ad

Guest

"Superior people never make long visits."  Marianne Moore

"The guest will be the last person to die."  Gurum Kvirkvelia of Georgia

Guilt

"Guilt is the gift that keeps on giving."  Captain Kangaroo

Gun 

"If we separate legend form history, guns can be seen not just as inviolate relics of the Revolution but as what they are: products."  Newsweek

"Only women should be allowed to own and operate guns. ... It's time to install locks that are biochemical, rather than mechanical, activated only by significant levels of estrogen."  Nancy Harry

 

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