GAFFES : A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth. (Michael Kinsley: U.S. political journalist and commentator, Born 1951)
GAINS : In each loss there is a gain / As in every gain there is a loss / And with each ending comes a new beginning. (Buddhist Proverb: )
GAINS : No gains without pains. (Adlai Stevenson II: U.S. lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 1900-1965)
GALAXIES : There are more than 400 billion stars in the Milky Way, our galaxy. There are somewhere between 100 and 200 billion such galaxies in the universe, and there are many universes. (Carl Sagan: U.S. astronomer and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences, 1934-1996)
GAMBLING : By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man. (Owen Feltham: English writer, 1602-1668)
GAMBLING : Horse-racing: The only man who makes money following the races is the one who does so with a broom and shovel. (Elbert Hubbard: U.S. leader of community arts, author, editor, printer, and philosopher, 1856-1915)
GAMBLING : I don't gamble. I invest with a risk. (Unknown Source: )
GAMBLING : There is but one good throw upon the dice, which is to throw them away. (Unknown Source: )
GAMES : After the game, the King and the pawn go into the same box (Italian Proverb: )
GAMING : By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man. (Owen Feltham: English writer, 1602-1668)
GAMING : Man is a gaming animal. (Charles Lamb: English poet and essayist, 1775-1834)
GARDENING : Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. (Douglas W. Jerrold: English dramatist and writer, 1803-1857)
GARDENING : Gardening is an exercise in optimism. (Maria Schinz: German photographer)
GARDENING : Gardening is landscape painting. (Alexander Pope: English poet who is considered the second most quoted writer in the English language after Shakespeare, 1688-1744)
GARDENING : One year's seeding means seven years' weeding. (Unknown Source: )
GARDENING : What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge on it. (Charles D. Warner: U.S. essayist and novelist, 1820-1900)
GARDENS : Pleasure for an hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for a year, marriage. Pleasure for a lifetime, a garden. (Unknown Source: )
GARLIC : Garlic makes a man wink, drink, and stink. (Thomas Nashe: English playwright, poet, satirist, and pamphleteer, 1567-1601)
GENDER : A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car. (Carrie Snow: U.S. stand-up comedian and television comic writer)
GENDER : A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man. (Charles Dickens: English writer and social critic, regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era, 1812-1870)
GENDER : A man must know how to defy opinion; a woman how to submit to it. (Madame de Stael: French-Swiss woman of letters, historian, and author, 1766-1817)
GENDER : A wife encourages her husband's egoism in order to exercise her own. (Unknown Source: )
GENDER : A wise woman will always let her husband have her way. (Richard B. Sheridan: Irish satirist, a playwright, poet, and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, 1751-1816)
GENDER : As the French say, there are three sexes—men, women, and clergymen. (Sydney Smith: English wit, writer, and Anglican cleric, 1771-1845)
GENDER : Better an old man'd darling than a young man's slave. (French Proverb: )
GENDER : Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night. (Rodney Dangerfield: U.S. stand-up comedian, actor, producer, screenwriter, musician, and author, 1921-2004)
GENDER : Every woman should marry—and no man. (Benjamin Disraeli: British writer and conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881)
GENDER : I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. (Gloria Steinem: U.S. feminist, journalist, and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s, Born 1934)
GENDER : If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman, you educate a family. (Rudy Manikan: U.S. naturalist talk show host, 1945-2023)
GENDER : If you want something talked about, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. (Margaret Thatcher: British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom - the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold that office - nicknamed the 'Iron Lady,' 1925-2013)
GENDER : In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string? (Cyril Connolly: English literary critic, writer, and editor, 1903-1974)
GENDER : In our civilization men are afraid they will not be men enough, and women are afraid they might be considered only women. (Theodore Reik: Austrian-U.S. psychoanalyst who trained as one of Freud's first students and was a pioneer of lay analysis in the United States, 1888-1969)
GENDER : It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)
GENDER : It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman’s brain. (Anna G. Spencer: U.S. educator, feminist, and Unitarian minister, 1851-1931)
GENDER : It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs. (Margaret Thatcher: British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom - the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold that office - nicknamed the 'Iron Lady,' 1925-2013)
GENDER : I’m not denyin’ the women are foolish; God Almighty made ‘em to match the men. (George Eliot: English novelist [pen name of Mary Ann Evans], poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, 1819-1880)
GENDER : Let us leave pretty women to men without imagination. (Marcel Proust: French novelist and essayist, 1871-1922)
GENDER : Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman. (Pearl Buck: U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)
GENDER : Man has his will—but woman has her way. (Oliver W. Holmes Sr.: U.S. poet, novelist, essayist, polymath, and physician, 1809-1894)
GENDER : Man may work from sun to sun / But woman’s work is never done. (Unknown Source: )
GENDER : Men and women are like right and left hands: it doesn't make sense not to use both. (Jeannette Rankin: U.S. politician, women's rights advocate, and the first woman to hold federal office in the United States, 1880-1973)
GENDER : Men are not against women; they are merely for themselves. (Gene Fowler: U.S. journalist and author, 1890-1960)
GENDER : Men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom. (Pearl Buck: U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)
GENDER : Men make laws; women make manners. (Louis Sequr: French diplomat and historian, 1753-1830)
GENDER : No man is as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman. (Frank O'Connor: Irish writer of over 150 works, best known for his short stories and memoirs, 1903-1966)
GENDER : No woman ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes. (Unknown Source: )
GENDER : Not all girls are made from sugar and everything nice. Some girls are made of adventure, dark chocolate, intelligence, cuss words, and courage. (Unknown Source: )
GENDER : Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. (Gloria Steinem: U.S. feminist, journalist, and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s, Born 1934)
GENDER : The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man. (Madame de Stael: French-Swiss woman of letters, historian, and author, 1766-1817)
GENDER : The usual male disillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain. (Margaret Mitchell: U.S. novelist and journalist, 1900- 1949)
GENDER : The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins, and pitfalls for the capture of men by women. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)
GENDER : There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody. (Florynce Kennedy: U.S. lawyer, feminist, civil rights advocate, and lecturer, 1916-2000)
GENDER : There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman. (Margaret Mead: U.S. cultural anthropologist, author, and speaker on the mass media, 1901-1978)
GENDER : There will be no real content among American women unless they are . . . given equal opportunity with men. And American men will not be really happy until their women are. (Pearl Buck: U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)
GENDER : We women ought to put first things first. Why should we mind if men have their faces on the money, as long as we get our hands on it? (Ivy B. Priest: U.S. politician who served as U.S. Treasurer and California State Treasurer, 1905-1975)
GENDER : What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. (English proverb: )
GENDER : When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition. (Letty C. Pogrebin: U.S. author, journalist, lecturer, social activist, and a founding editor of 'Ms.,' a liberal feminist magazine, Born 1939)
GENDER : When men realized that women bleed every month and don't die, they became fearful of women's power. (Unknown Source: )
GENDER : When you lift up women, you lift up humanity. (Melinda Gates: U.S. philanthropist who with her husband, Bill Gates, co-founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — that at the time in 2015 was the world's largest private charitable organization, Born 1964)
GENDER : When you say ignorant things about women in power, they don’t hear you. But your daughters do. Your mother does. Your sisters and nieces hear you too. (Unknown Source: )
GENDER : Why did God make man before he made woman? Because he didn't want any advice on how to do it. (Unknown Source: )
GENDER : Women are not going to become more equal outside the home until men become more equal inside the home. (Gloria Steinem: U.S. feminist, journalist, and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s, Born 1934)
GENDER : Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. (Marilyn Monroe: U.S. actress, model, and singer, 1926-1962)
GENDER : Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the liberation of the masculine in the woman. (Corita Kent: U.S. Roman Catholic religious sister, artist, and educator, 1918-1986)
GENEOLOGY : The apple never falls far from the tree. (English proverb: )
GENERATIONS : A gulf of unshared experience gapes between generations. (Unknown Source: )
GENERATIONS : By the time a man realizes that his father was right, he has a son who thinks he's wrong. (Charles Wadsworth: U.S. classical pianist and musical promoter, born 1929)
GENERATIONS : Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity (John J. Chapman: U.S. attorney and essayist who was considered in the front ranks of the U.S. essayists of his day, 1862-1933)
GENERATIONS : Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. (Lewis Mumford: U.S. historian, literary critic, sociologist, and philosopher of technology, noted for his study of cities and urban architecture, 1895-1990)
GENERATIONS : Grandparents and grandchildren so often get along very well. Remove one generation—twenty-five years at least—and the anger in both directions dissipates. (Charles Frazier: U.S. novelist who won the 1997 National Book Award for Fiction, Born 1950)
GENERATIONS : If one's children, it makes it harder to be the child to one's own parents once on is an adult. (Unknown Source: )
GENERATIONS : It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)
GENERATIONS : The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. (Sam Levenson: U.S. humorist, television host, and journalist, 1911-1980)
GENERATIONS : What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)
GENERATIONS : When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when his son gives to his father, both cry. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)
GENERATIONS : Young men think old men fools and old men know young men to be so. (Unknown Source: )
GENEROSITY : The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation. (Corrie Ten Boom: Dutch watchmaker who helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust and was sent to a Nazi concentration camp, but later was a Christian writer and public speaker,1892-1983)
GENEROSITY : Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. (Albert Camus: French philosopher, author, and journalist, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second youngest recipient in history, 1913-1960)
GENEROSITY : You give your all and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing. (: )
GENESIS : Nothing is easier than to denounce the evil doer; Nothing more difficult than understanding him. (Fyodor Dostoevsky: Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, and philosopher, 1821-1881)
GENIUS : A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see—and hits it. (Unknown Source: )
GENIUS : Doing easily what others find is difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. (Henri F. Amiel: Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic, 1821-1881)
GENIUS : Every true genius is bound to be naive. (J.C.F Von Schiller: German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright, 1864-1937)
GENIUS : Genius develops in quiet places, character out in the full current of human life. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)
GENIUS : Genius is eternal patience. (Michelangelo: Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance, 1475-1564)
GENIUS : Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience. (Georges-Louis Leclerc: French naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist, and, encyclopédiste, 1707-1788)
GENIUS : Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. (Thomas A. Edison: U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)
GENIUS : Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple. (C. W. Ceram: German journalist and editor, 1915-1972)
GENIUS : Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out. (Marguerite Gardiner: Countess of Blessington, Irish novelist, journalist, and literary hostess, 1789-1849)
GENIUS : Genius must be born, and never can be taught. (John Dryden: English poet, literary critic, translator, playwright, and England's first Poet Laureate, 1631-1700)
GENIUS : Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. (William James: U.S. philosopher and psychologist whose influence led to his being known as the ‘Father of American Psychology,’ 1842-1910)
GENIUS : Inspiration and genius—one and the same. (Victor Hugo: French poet, novelist, and dramatist whose works include "Les Miserables" and "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame," 1802-1885)
GENIUS : It takes an intellectual to solve a problem but a genius to prevent one. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)
GENIUS : Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active. (Leonardo da Vinci: Italian Renaissance polymath whose interests were inventing, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, mathematics, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, history, and cartography, 1452-1519)
GENIUS : One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. (Paul Valery: French poet, essayist, and philosopher, 1871-1945)
GENIUS : Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see. (Arthur Schopenhauer: German philosopher whose views countered the philosophies of German post-Kantian idealism, and whose work was among the first in Western philosophy to share significant tenets of Eastern thought, 1788-1860)
GENIUS : The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity. (Unknown Source: )
GENIUS : There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65)
Geniuses : Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. (W. H. Auden: English-American poet, 1907-1973)
Geniuses : Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)
GENTLEMEN : A gentleman is a man who can disagree without being disagreeable. (Unknown Source: )
GENTLENESS : Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength. (Ralph W. Sockman: U.S. pastor and radio broadcaster, 1889-1970)
GENTLENESS : Patience and gentleness is power. (Leigh Hunt: English critic, essayist, and poet, 1784-1859)
GEOGRAPHY : History is all explained by geography. (Robert P. Warren: U.S. poet, novelist, literary critic, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, 1905-1989)
GEOGRAPHY : Sin is geographical. (Bertrand Russell: British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)
GEOGRAPHY : Sometimes I think war is God’s way of teaching us geography. (Unknown Source: )
GEOGRAPHY : The darkest thing about Africa is America's ignorance of it. (George H. Kimble: British-born geographer, professor at McGill University, and secretary of the International Geographical Union, 1908-2004)
GEOGRAPHY : The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one’s self to be acquainted with it. (Lord Chesterfield: British statesman, diplomat, man of letters, and an acclaimed wit of his time, 1694-1773)
GEOLOGY : Civilization exists with geologic consent, subject to change without notice. (Will Durant: U.S. writer, historian, and philosopher, 1885-1981)
GHETTO : To smash something is the ghetto’s chronic need. (James Baldwin: U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic who focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987)
GHOSTS : Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. (Stephen King: U.S. author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, horror, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels, Born, 1947)
GIFT-GIVING : I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered. (Robert L. Stevenson: Scottish novelist and travel writer, 1850-1924)
GIFTS : I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered. (Robert L. Stevenson: Scottish novelist and travel writer, 1850-1924)
GIFTS : When a man brings his wife flowers for no reason, there's a reason. (Molly McGee: U.S. National Football League running-back, 1952-1994)
GIRLS : Not all girls are made from sugar and everything nice. Some girls are made of adventure, dark chocolate, intelligence, cuss words, and courage. (Unknown Source: )
GIVING : A bit of perfume always clings to the hand that gives the rose. (Unknown Source: )
GIVING : Giving rarely moves in a straight line; it usually moves in circles. (Unknown Source: )
GIVING : I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received. (Antonio Porchia: Italian-Argentinian poet and writer of aphorisms, some of which parallel Zen schools of thought, 1886-1968)
GIVING : It is more blessed to give than to receive. (Jesus: The the central figure of Christianity, the world's largest religion 6-4 B.C.E.-A.D.33)
GIVING : Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy. (Ralph Connor: Canadian novelist and church leader, 1860-1937)
GIVING : No one has ever become poor by giving. (Anne Frank: German-born diarist and Jewish victim of the Holocaust, 1929-1945)
GIVING : Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. (Albert Camus: French philosopher, author, and journalist, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second youngest recipient in history, 1913-1960)
GIVING : The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person. (Virginia Satir: U.S. psychotherapist and author, 1916-1988)
GIVING : To have and not to give is often worse than to steal. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Austrian writer and nominee for the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1830-1916)
GIVING : We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. (Unknown Source: )
GIVINGNESS : A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. (Henrik Ibsen: Norwegian playwright and theatre director, 1828-1906)
GIVINGNESS : In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit. (Anne Frank: German-born diarist and Jewish victim of the Holocaust, 1929-1945)
GIVINGNESS : It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)
GIVINGNESS : It's best to give while your hand is still warm. (Philip Roth: U.S. novelist and short story writer, 1933-2018)
GIVINGNESS : Live To Give! (Green Beret: )
GIVINGNESS : Pay it forward! (Lily H. Hammond: U.S. writer and leader in the world of Southern Methodist women’s home missions, 1859-1925)
GIVINGNESS : Some people are committed to putting good energy into the universe. (Unknown Source: )
GIVINGNESS : The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. (Unknown Source: )
GIVINGNESS : The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much. (St. Chrysostom: Archbishop of Constantinople, an important Early Church Father, known for his denunciation of abuse of authority by both ecclesiastical and political leaders, 349-407 A.D.)
GIVINGNESS : There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)
GIVINGNESS : What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? (George Eliot: English novelist [pen name of Mary Ann Evans], poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, 1819-1880)
GIVINGNESS : What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world, remains and is immortal. (Albert Pine: U.S. author and biographer best known for his work with Mark Twain, 1861-1937)
GIVINGNESS : You make a living by what you get; you make a life by what you give. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965)
GLADNESS : Sadness and gladness succeed each other. (Unknown Source: )
GLADNESS : The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together. (Saadi Shirazi: Persian poet, 1210-1291)
GLASSES : Men seldom make passes / At girls who wear glasses. (Dorothy Parker: U.S. writer, satirist, social critic, 1893-1967)
GLORY : The paths of glory lead but to the grave. (Thomas Gray: English poet, 1716-1771)
GLUTTONY : Gluttony kills more than the sword. (Alexander Barclay: English poet and clergyman, 1475-1552)
GOALS : -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What’s in it for me?' (Brian Tracy: Canadian-U.S. motivational public speaker and self-development author, Born 1944)
GOALS : A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing his/her own way. (Swahili Proverb: )
GOALS : A goal is a dream with a deadline. (Napoleon Hill: U.S. self-help author whose books focused on principles to achieve success, 1883-1970)
GOALS : A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something at which to aim. (Bruce Lee: Hong Kong-American martial artist and actor whose career spanned Hong Kong and the United States, 1940-1973)
GOALS : A good goal is like a strenuous exercise-it makes you stretch. (Mary K. Ash: U.S. businesswoman and founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, 1918-2001)
GOALS : A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. (Chinese Proverb: )
GOALS : A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault. (John H. Newman: Anglican priest, poet, theologian, and later a Catholic cardinal, 1801-1890)
GOALS : A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. (John A. Shedd: U.S. merchant and business executive of the Marshall Field & Co., 1850-1926)
GOALS : A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him. (Sidney Greenberg: US. rabbi and author, 1917-2003)
GOALS : Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. (Robert Browning: English poet and playwright, 1812-1889)
GOALS : Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star. (W. C. Stone: U.S. businessman, philanthropist, and self-help book author, 1902-2002)
GOALS : Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite. (Josh Billings: U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885)
GOALS : Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. (John Dewey: U.S. philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, 1859-1952)
GOALS : As is our confidence, so is our capacity. (William Hazlitt: English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher, 1778-1830)
GOALS : Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. (Farrah Gray: U.S. businessman and author, Born 1984)
GOALS : Burn brightly without burning out. (Richard Biggs: U.S. television and stage actor, 1960-2004)
GOALS : Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. (Christina Rossetti: English children's poet, 1830-1894)
GOALS : Chase the vision, not the money. The money will end up following you. (Tony Hsieh: U.S. internet entrepreneur and venture capitalist who co-founded the Internet advertising network, LinkExchange, 1973-2020)
GOALS : Climb high / Climb far / Your goal the sky / Your aim the star. (Alumni of Williams College, Massachusetts: )
GOALS : Climb mountains so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. (Nancy McFadden: U.S. lawyer and political liaison between the U.S. Dept. of Justice and the White House, 1958-2018)
GOALS : Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it. (Michael Friedman: U.S. composer and lyricist, l975-2017)
GOALS : Difficulties increase the nearer we come to our aim. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)
GOALS : Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments. (Jim Rohn: U.S. entrepreneur, author, and motivational speaker, 1930-2009)
GOALS : Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. (John Wooden: U.S. basketball coach who at UCLA held an unprecedented record of NCAA national championships, 1910-2010)
GOALS : Do your best; history will do the rest. (Harry S. Truman: U.S. politician who served as the 33rd President of the United States, 1884-1972)
GOALS : Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. (David L. George: British politician who served as the Prime Minister during World War I, 1863-1945)
GOALS : Don’t let the sun set without taking a bite out of the road toward your goal. (Unknown Source: )
GOALS : Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion. (Dorothea Brande: U.S. writer and editor, 1893-1948)
GOALS : Everyone should learn to do one thing supremely well because he likes it, and one thing supremely well because he detests it. (Brigham Young: U.S. religious leader of the Mormon Church and politician, who founded of Salt Lake City and served as the first governor of the Utah Territory, 1801-1877)
GOALS : Goals are only wishes unless you have a plan. (Unknown Source: )
GOALS : Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. (Washington Irving: U.S. short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat, 1783-1859)
GOALS : He alone fails who gives up and lies down. (Ralph W. Trine: U.S. 'New Thought' writer, philosopher, and animal welfare activist, 1866-1958)
GOALS : He that would have fruit must climb the tree. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)
GOALS : He turns not back who is bound to a star. (Leonardo da Vinci: Italian Renaissance polymath whose interests were inventing, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, mathematics, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, history, and cartography, 1452-1519)
GOALS : If people aren’t laughing at your goals, your goals are too small (Azim Premji: Indian businessman and philanthropist who is known as the 'Czar of the Indian IT Industry,' Born 1945)
GOALS : If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)
GOALS : If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. (Henry David Thoreau: U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)
GOALS : If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters. (Abigail Van Buren: U.S. advice columnist and radio show host who began the 'Dear Abby' column in 1956, which became the most widely syndicated newspaper column in the world, 1918-2013)
GOALS : If you want a rainbow, you have to deal with the rain. (Augustus Caesar: Founder of the Roman Principate and considered the first Roman Emperor, controlling the Roman Empire from 27 B.C.E. until his death, 63 B.C.E.—14 C.E.)
GOALS : If you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain. (Dolly Parton: U.S. singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actress, author, businesswoman, and humanitarian, known primarily for her work in country music, Born 1946)
GOALS : If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)
GOALS : If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it: Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. (Henry W. Longfellow: U.S. poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride," "The Song of Hiawatha," and "Evangeline," 1807-1882)
GOALS : In life, as in football, you won’t go far unless you know where the goalposts are. (Arnold H. Glasow: U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)
GOALS : In order to gain anything, you must first lose everything. (Gautama Buddha: Asian ascetic and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism were founded and who lived sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C.E.)
GOALS : In the absence of clearly defined goals, we become loyal to performing daily trivia until we become enslaved by it. (Robert A. Heinlein: U.S. science-Fiction writer, often called the 'dean of science-fiction writers,' 1907-1988)
GOALS : In the hopes of reaching the moon, men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. (Albert Schweitzer: French-German philosopher, physician, musician, and Nobel Laureate, 1875-1965)
GOALS : Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success. (Unknown Source: )
GOALS : Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment? (Robert L. Stevenson: Scottish novelist and travel writer, 1850-1924)
GOALS : It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive. (Robert L. Stevenson: Scottish novelist and travel writer, 1850-1924)
GOALS : It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. (Douglas MacArthur: U.S. Five-star General who played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II, 1880-1964)
GOALS : It is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way. (Havelock Ellis: English physician, writer, and progressivesocial reformer who studied human sexuality, 1859-1939)
GOALS : It is only fools who keep straining at high C all their lives. (Charles D. Warner: U.S. essayist and novelist, 1820-1900)
GOALS : It's never too late to be what you might have been. (George Eliot: English novelist [pen name of Mary Ann Evans], poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, 1819-1880)
GOALS : It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them. (Joanna Field: British author and psychoanalyst, 1900-1998)
GOALS : It’s the not the destination, It's the journey. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)
GOALS : Keep in mind always the present you are constructing. It should be the future you want. (Alice M. Walker: U.S. author and awardee of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Born 1944)
GOALS : Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality. (Malaya Yousafzai: Pakistani activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Born 1997)
GOALS : Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. (Henry David Thoreau: U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)
GOALS : Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)
GOALS : Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stones (Marilyn French: U.S. radical feminist author, 1929-2009)
GOALS : Most of the fear that spoils our life comes from attacking difficulties before we get to them. (Frank Crane: U.S. clergyman and popular writer, 1861-1928)
GOALS : Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. (Henry W. Longfellow: U.S. poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride," "The Song of Hiawatha," and "Evangeline," 1807-1882)
GOALS : No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him. (Marcus S. Seneca (the Elder): Roman orator and writer, 54 B.C.E.—c. A.D. 39))
GOALS : No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port. (: )
GOALS : Nothing is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself. (John McCain III: U.S. politician and naval officer who served 5 terms in the U.S. Senate, 1936-2018)
GOALS : Nothing of worthy or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor. (Isaac Barrow: English Christian theologian and mathematician, 1630-1677)
GOALS : Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. (Henry Ford: U.S. industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsoring developer of the assembly line technique of mass production, 1863-1947)
GOALS : Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. (Henry Ford: U.S. industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsoring developer of the assembly line technique of mass production, 1863-1947)
GOALS : On the human chessboard, all moves are possible. (Miriam Schiff: U.S. journalist and film director of the 'Vagina Monologues')
GOALS : One arrow does not bring down two birds. (Turkish Proverb: )
GOALS : One woman can make a difference, but together we can rock the world. (Unknown Source: )
GOALS : Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road. (Dag Hammarskjold: Swedish diplomat, economist, and author, who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations, 1905-1961)
GOALS : Prospect is often better than possession. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)
GOALS : Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought. (Matsuo Basho: Japanese poet who is recognized as the greatest master of Haiku, 1644-1694)
GOALS : Set short term goals and you'll win games. Set long term goals and you'll win championships! (Unknown Source: )
GOALS : Strive not to be a success, but rather to be a value. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)
GOALS : The best way to predict your future is to create it. (Abraham Lincoln: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)
GOALS : The future is a moving target, and you have to keep aiming at it. (Gary Sklar: U.S. attorney)
GOALS : The greater damage for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. (Michelangelo: Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance, 1475-1564)
GOALS : The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. (Unknown Source: )
GOALS : The only impossible journey is the one you never begin. (Anthony J. Robbins: U.S. entrepreneur and author of self-help books, Born 1960)
GOALS : The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running. (Bible, Ecclesiastes 9:11: )
GOALS : The secret of getting ahead is getting started. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
GOALS : The significance of a man is not in what he attains but rather in what he longs to attain. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)
GOALS : The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill. (Anna Jameson: Anglo-Irish writer and art historian, 1794-1860)
GOALS : The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. (Benjamin Mays: U.S. Baptist minister and civil rights leader who is credited with laying the intellectual foundations of the American civil rights movement, 1894-1984)
GOALS : The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going. (David S. Jordan: U.S. zoologist, educator, eugenicist, and peace activist, 1851-1931)
GOALS : There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. (Beverly Sills: U.S. operatic soprano singer, 1929-2007)
GOALS : There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning., (Christopher Morley: U.S. journalist, novelist, essayist and poet, 1890-1957)
GOALS : There is no finish line. So love the journey. (Unknown Source: )
GOALS : There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another. (Emma Goldman: Russian-American writer and lecturer on anarchist philosophy, women's rights, and social issues, 1869-1940)
GOALS : Think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the year’s. (Henry Moore: English artist who is best known for his monumental bronze sculptures located around the world, 1898-1986)
GOALS : To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. (Anatole France: French poet, journalist, novelist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1844-1924)
GOALS : Waiting is not mere empty hoping. It has the inner certainty of reaching the goal. (I Ching, Book of Changes: )
GOALS : We all have two choices. We can make a living OR we can design a life. (Unknown Source: )
GOALS : We all have two choices: We can make a living OR we can design a life. (John Q. Adams: U.S. politician who served as the sixth President of the United States, 1767-1848)
GOALS : What you do makes a difference. But you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. (Jane Goodall: English primatologist, anthropologist, and advocate of environmental conservation, who is considered to be the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees, Born 1934)
GOALS : What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. (Henry David Thoreau: U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)
GOALS : When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65)
GOALS : When you don't know what harbor you're aiming for, no wind is the right wind. (Unknown Source: )
GOALS : When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self. (Unknown Source: )
GOALS : When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row. (Alice Paul: U.S. Quaker, suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the foremost leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,1885-1977)
GOALS : When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful. (Thomas Eric: U.S. motivational speaker, author, consultant, and minister, Born 1970)
GOALS : Where your fear is, there is your task. (Carl Jung: Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)
GOALS : Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. (Lyndon B. Johnson: U.S. politician who served as the 36th President of the United States, 1908-1973)
GOALS : You are always one decision from a completely different life. (Mel Robbins: U.S. podcast host, author, motivational speaker, and former lawyer, Born 1968)
GOALS : You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)
GOALS : Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight. (Anita DeFrantz: U.S. Olympic rower and member of the International Olympic Committee, Born 1952)
GOD : And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence. (Bertrand Russell: British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)
GOD : Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the apples in one seed. (Robert H. Schuller: Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and author, principally known for his weekly ‘Hour of Power’ television program, 1926-2015)
GOD : God enters by a private door into every individual. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)
GOD : God gives burdens, also shoulders. (Yiddish Proverb: )
GOD : God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them. (Unknown Source: )
GOD : God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere. (Unknown Source: )
GOD : God is in you as the ocean is in the wave. (Eric Butterworth: Canadian educator, 1916-2003)
GOD : God not only plays dice—he throws them in the corner where you can’t see them. (Stephen Hawking: English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Born 1942)
GOD : I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. (Frank L. Wright: U.S. architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, 1867-1959)
GOD : I believe in the incomprehensibility of God. (Honore de Balzac: French novelist and playwright, 1799-1850)
GOD : I don't think that by studying science you will be forced to conclude that there must be a God. But if you have already found God, then you can say, from understanding science, "Ah, I see what God has done in the world." (Carl Feit: U.S. cancer biologist at Yeshiva University and a Talmudic scholar, Born 1946)
GOD : I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose. (Clarence Darrow: U.S. leading member of the Civil Rights Union and attorney in the famous Leopold-Loeb trial, as well as the Scopes ‘Monkey’ trial, 1857-1938)
GOD : I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experience. (William James: U.S. philosopher and psychologist whose influence led to his being known as the ‘Father of American Psychology,’ 1842-1910)
GOD : If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. (Unknown Source: )
GOD : If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse. (Woody Allen: U.S. director, writer, actor, and comedian who's been highly ranked as a great stand-up comedian, Born, 1935)
GOD : If there is a God, I don't think He would demand that anyone bow down or stand up to him. (Rebecca West: British author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer, 1892-1983)
GOD : If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him. (Voltaire: French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)
GOD : If triangles had a God, he would have three sides. (Charles de Montesquieu: French judge, historian, and political philosopher who promoted the theory of separation of state, 1689-1755)
GOD : It has been said that even if we believed God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)
GOD : It is the heart which experiences God, and not the reason. This, then, is faith in God felt by the heart, not by the reason. (Blaise Pascal: French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and writer who wrote in defense of the scientific method, 1623-1662)
GOD : Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. (Soren, Kierkegaard: Danish philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher, 1813-1855)
GOD : There is a rumor going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist. (Terry Pratchett: English author of fantasy novels, 1948-2015)
GOD : To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist. (Miguel de Unamuno: Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, and professor of Greek and Classics, 1864-1936)
GOD : To put one's trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it. (Samuel Butler: English author, 1835-1902)
GOD : When religion turns men into murderers, God weeps. Too often in the history of religion, people have killed in the name of the God of life, waged war in the name of the God of peace, hated in the name of the God of love, and practical cruelty in the name of the God of compassion. (Jonathan Sachs: British rabbi, philosopher, and scholar, Born 1948)
GOLDEN RULE : Don't do onto others what you would not want done onto you. (Unknown Source: )
GOLDEN RULE : We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life. (Edwin Markham: U.S. social protest poet and Poet Laureate of the state of Oregon, 1852-1940)
GOLF : Golf is a good walk spoiled. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
GOLF : Golf is an ineffectual attempt to put an elusive ball into an obscure hole with implements ill-adapted to the purpose. (Unknown Source: )
GOLF : You know you're getting old when you start watching golf on TV and enjoying it. (Larry Miller: U.S. comedian, actor, podcaster, and columnist, Born 1953)
GOODNESS : Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do. (Voltaire: French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)
GOODNESS : Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. (Unknown Source: )
GOODNESS : Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. (William Saroyan: Award-winning Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer, 1908-1981)
GOODNESS : He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward, though sure of both at last. (William Penn: U.S. writer, Quaker, and founder of the English North American colony the Province of Pennsylvania, known for his advocacy of democracy and religious freedom, and notable for his good relations with the Lenape Native Americans, 1644-1718)
GOODNESS : If you think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. (Woodrow Wilson: U.S. politician and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States, 1856-1924)
GOODNESS : Knowing all truth is less than doing a little bit of good. (Albert Schweitzer: French-German philosopher, physician, musician, and Nobel Laureate, 1875-1965)
GOODNESS : The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention. (John Burroughs: U.S. naturalist and nature essayist, 1837-1921)
GOODNESS : There can be no good without evil. (Unknown Source: )
GOODNESS : There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring. (Evelyn B. Hall: English writer best known for her biography of the author, Voltaire, 1868-1956)
GOODNESS : There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)
GOODNESS : What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world, remains and is immortal. (Albert Pine: U.S. author and biographer best known for his work with Mark Twain, 1861-1937)
GOOGLE : 'Google' is not a synonym for research. (Dan Brown: U.S. novelist, Born 1964)
GOSSIP : A wise man knows everything; a shrewd one, everybody. (Unknown Source: )
GOSSIP : Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. (Eleanor Roosevelt: U.S. political figure, diplomat, and activist who served as the First Lady of the U.S. during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office, making her the longest serving U.S. First Lady, 1884-1962)
GOSSIP : Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. (Unknown Source: )
GOSSIP : Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others. (J. Pettit-Senn: Swiss poet, 1792-1870)
GOSSIP : Live so that you wouldn’t be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. (Will Rogers: U.S. stage and motion picture actor, vaudeville performer, newspaper columnist, and social commentator, 1879-1935)
GOSSIP : Loose lips sink ships. (U.S. Proverb: )
GOSSIP : People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. (Unknown Source: )
GOSSIP : Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people. (Barbara Walters: U.S. broadcast journalist, author, and television personality, Born 1929)
GOSSIP : The best-loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish could they hear all that their friends say in the course of a day. (Unknown Source: )
GOSSIP : What other people think and say about you is none of your business. (Roy T. Bennett: U.S. inspirational author, 1957-2018)
GOSSIP : Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. (Spanish Proverb: )
GOSSIP : Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you. (Unknown Source: )
GOVERNANCE : A king can stand people's fighting, but he can't last long if people start thinking. (Will Rogers: U.S. stage and motion picture actor, vaudeville performer, newspaper columnist, and social commentator, 1879-1935)
GOVERNANCE : If you allow weak leadership, then you must contend with it. (Unknown Source: )
GOVERNANCE : Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small. (Edmund Spenser: English poet best known for an epic poem, ‘The Faerie Queene,’ and considered one of the greatest poets in the English language, 1552-1599)
GOVERNANCE : Iron hand in a velvet glove. (Charles V: Holy Roman Emperor, Archduke of Austria, King of Spain, and Lord of the Netherlands, 1500-1558)
GOVERNANCE : The fate of a nation has often depended on the good or bad digestion of a prime minister. (Unknown Source: )
GOVERNANCE : The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy. (Benjamin Disraeli: British writer and conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881)
GOVERNANCE : The president proposes and the legislature disposes. (Unknown Source: )
GOVERNANCE : What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? (Unknown Source: )
GOVERNMENT : A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. (Samuel Johnson: English poet, playwright, essayist, critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)
GOVERNMENT : A fair day's wages for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of government. (Thomas Carlyle: Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881)
GOVERNMENT : A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)
GOVERNMENT : A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. (Franklin D. Roosevelt: U.S. politician and statesman who served as the 32nd U.S. President, 1882-1945)
GOVERNMENT : A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. (Edward R. Murrow: U.S. war correspondent during World War II and broadcast journalist, 1908-1965)
GOVERNMENT : A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. (Bertrand de Jouvenel: French philosopher, political economist, and futurist, 1903-1987)
GOVERNMENT : All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All religions, separated from government, are compatible with liberty. (Henry Clay: U.S. attorney, statesman, and orator, 1777-1852)
GOVERNMENT : As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence. (Mahatma Gandhi: Indian leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India who employed nonviolent civil disobedience, and who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)
GOVERNMENT : Democracy is the worst form of government —except all the others. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965)
GOVERNMENT : Divided opinions have convulsed societies since Greece and Rome; they are the oxygen of a free government. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)
GOVERNMENT : England and America are two countries separated by the same language. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)
GOVERNMENT : Every nation has the government it deserves. (Joseph d. Maistre: French philosopher, writer, lawyer, and diplomat who advocated social hierarchy, aristocracy, and monarchy in the period immediately following the French Revolution 1753-1821)
GOVERNMENT : Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them in the name of morality. (William S. Coffin: U.S. Christian clergyman, long-time peace activist, and CIA officer, 1924-2006)
GOVERNMENT : For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. (John F. Kennedy: U.S. politician who served as the 35th president of the United States in 1961 until his assassination, 1917-1963)
GOVERNMENT : Give the people bread and circuses [diversion], and they will go along with it. (Julius Caesar: Roman dictator, politician, and military general who played a critical role in the rise of the Roman Empire, 100—44 B.C.E.)
GOVERNMENT : Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Don't overdo it. (Lao Tzu: Chinese philosopher and writer who is the reputed founder of philosophical Taoism, 604—531 B.C.E.)
GOVERNMENT : Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. (Edmund Burke: Anglo-Irish statesman and political philosopher who served in the British parliament and in the House of Commons, 1729-1797)
GOVERNMENT : Government is like a big baby—an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. (Ronald Reagan: U.S. actor and politician who served as the 40th President of the United States, 1911-2004)
GOVERNMENT : Government run by organized money is more fearful than government run by organized mobs. (Unknown Source: )
GOVERNMENT : How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think. (Adolf Hitler: German leader of the Nazi Party who initiated World War II in Europe, 1889-1945)
GOVERNMENT : If men were angels, no government would be necessary. (James Madison: Father of the U.S. Constitution and the fourth president of the United States, 1751-1836)
GOVERNMENT : If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. (Charles Darwin: English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution, 1809-1882)
GOVERNMENT : In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people. (Wilma Mankiller: Native American activist, social worker, and community developer in the Cherokee nation, 1945-2010)
GOVERNMENT : In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. (Desiderius Erasmus: Dutch philosopher and scholar, considered to have been one of the greatest scholars of the northern Renaissance. (1466-1536))
GOVERNMENT : It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. (Unknown Source: )
GOVERNMENT : It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)
GOVERNMENT : It’ll be the ballot or the bullet. It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. (Malcolm X: U.S. African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement. 1925-1965)
GOVERNMENT : Knowing exactly how much of the future can be introduced into the present is the secret of great government. (Victor Hugo: French poet, novelist, and dramatist whose works include "Les Miserables" and "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame," 1802-1885)
GOVERNMENT : Let's hope . . . that Americans come to realize that Washington is dysfunctional not because of the venality of the politicians but rather because of the appetites of the people they represent—who want benefits and lowered taxes, but a balanced budget. (Fareed Zakariah: Indian-American world-affairs journalist, TV commentator, and author, Born 1964)
GOVERNMENT : Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government. (George Washington: U.S. politician and soldier who served as the first President of the United States and was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, 1732-1799)
GOVERNMENT : No one is above the law. (British principle of the Magna Carta, established in 1215) (MAGNA CARTA: )
GOVERNMENT : People want dignity, bread, and fairness — and see their ruling elites as parasites gorging themselves on the labor of others. (William DuBay: U.S. Catholic priest and social activist, Born 1934)
GOVERNMENT : Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is man-made and can be removed by the actions of human beings. (Nelson Mandela: South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as President of South Africa and received the Nobel Prize for promoting peace, 1918-2013)
GOVERNMENT : Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. (Eric Hoffer: U.S. moral and social philosopher and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1983)
GOVERNMENT : Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. (: )
GOVERNMENT : Power without the people's confidence is nothing. (Catherine the Great: Empress of Russia from 1762 until 1796, the country's longest-ruling female leader, under whose reign Russia became revitalized and recognized as one of the great powers of Europe, 1729-1796)
GOVERNMENT : Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty. (Charles de Montesquieu: French judge, historian, and political philosopher who promoted the theory of separation of state, 1689-1755)
GOVERNMENT : The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction . . . no longer exist(s). (Hannah Arendt: German-born, U.S. political theorist who is widely considered one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century, 1906-1975)
GOVERNMENT : The lie has become not just a moral category, but a pillar of the state. (Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Russian novelist, historian, short story writer, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and who was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union, 1918-2008)
GOVERNMENT : The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? (Pablo Casals: Spanish cellist, conductor, and composer, 1876-1973)
GOVERNMENT : The main task of a free society is to civilize the struggle for power. (R. H. S. Crossman: British Labor Party politician, 1907-1974)
GOVERNMENT : The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man. (William Beveridge: British economist and social reformer, 1879-1963)
GOVERNMENT : The only real nation is humanity. (Tracy Kidder: U.S. writer of nonfiction books and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, Born 1945)
GOVERNMENT : The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. (Franklin D. Roosevelt: U.S. politician and statesman who served as the 32nd U.S. President, 1882-1945)
GOVERNMENT : The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind. (Thomas Paine: U.S. political activist, and as a revolutionary he was one of the Founders of the United States of America, 1737-1809)
GOVERNMENT : The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other—instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals. (Edward Abbey: U.S. naturalist, author, and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues, 1927-1989)
GOVERNMENT : There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen. (Vladimir Lenin: Russian revolutionary and political theorist who served as the head of government of both Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union, 1870-1924)
GOVERNMENT : There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt. (John Q. Adams: U.S. politician who served as the sixth President of the United States, 1767-1848)
GOVERNMENT : There is nothing more dangerous than a government of the many controlled by the few. (Lawrence Lessig: U.S. professor and political activist, Born 1961)
GOVERNMENT : To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
GOVERNMENT : Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. (Henry David Thoreau: U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)
GOVERNMENT : Unlearned in history, people allow themselves to be governed by the Unknown Past. (: )
GOVERNMENT : We are teaching the world the great truth that governments do better without kings and nobles than with them. The merit will be doubled by the other lesson that religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of government. (James Madison: Father of the U.S. Constitution and the fourth president of the United States, 1751-1836)
GOVERNMENT : When plunder or corruption becomes a way of life for a group of men living in society, they create for themselves . . . a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. (Frederic Bastiat: French writer and economist, 1801-1850)
GOVERNMENT : Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. (Harry S. Truman: U.S. politician who served as the 33rd President of the United States, 1884-1972)
GOVERNMENT : World War II was the last government program that really worked. (George Will: U.S. conservative political commentator and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, Born 1941)
GOVERNMENT (U.S.A.) : A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. (Abraham Lincoln: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)
GOVERNMENT (U.S.A.) : If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. (James Madison: Father of the U.S. Constitution and the fourth president of the United States, 1751-1836)
GOVERNMENT (U.S.A.) : Our government has become a clearinghouse for corporations and plutocrats whose dollars grease the wheels for lucrative contracts and easy regulation. (Bill Moyers: U.S. journalist and political commentator who also served as White House Press Secretary, Born 1934)
GOVERNMENT (U.S.A.) : The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. (Alexis de Tocqueville: French diplomat, political scientist, and historian, 1805-1809)
GOVERNMENT (U.S.A.) : The government ought not to be invested with power to control the affections, any more than the consciences of citizens. (Lydia M. Child: U.S. abolitionist, activist for the rights of women and Native Americans, novelist, and journalist, 1802-1880)
GOVERNMENT (U.S.A.) : This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it. (Vine Deloria Jr.: U.S. author, theologian, and historian, whose work helped attract national attention to Native Americans issues, 1933-2005)
GOVERNMENT (U.S.A.) : We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. (Robert F. Kennedy: U.S. Senator, Attorney General, and civil rights activist, 1925-1968)
GOVERNMENT (U.S.A.) : We have the best congressmen that money can buy. (Joann Dearing: U.S. actress and producer)
GOVERNMENT (U.S.A.) : We here highly resolve that . . . government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth. (Abraham Lincoln: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)
GOVERNMENT (U.S.A.) : Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)
GRADUATION : The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. (Robert Hutchins: U.S. educational philosopher, dean of Yale Law School, and president and chancellor of the University of Chicago, 1899-1977)
GRAMMAR : Chickens lay eggs; humans lie down. (Unknown Source: )
GRAMMAR : This is the sort of English up with which I will not put. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965)
GRANDCHILDREN : If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first. (Lois Wyse: U.S. advertising executive, author, and columnist, 1926-2007)
GRANDCHILDREN : Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild (Welsh Proverb: )
GRANDMAS : There are lots of spoiled kids out there . . . because you can't spank Grandma. (Janet Anderson: English Labour Party politician who was a Member of Parliament, Born 1949)
GRANDMOTHERS : The soul of the grandchild lives in the heart of the grandmother. (Unknown Source: )
GRANDPARENTHOOD : Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. (Unknown Source: )
GRASS : Grass is the forgiveness of nature—her constant benediction. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal. (Unknown Source: )
GRATIFICATION : I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification. (Peggy Cahn: U.S. nurse and youth organizer, died 2012)
GRATITUDE : A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men, living and dead. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)
GRATITUDE : Better is half a loaf than no bread. (John Heywood: English writer known for his plays, poems, and collection of proverbs, 1497-1580)
GRATITUDE : Do not forget who held the ladder when you climbed to success. (Unknown Source: )
GRATITUDE : Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. (Emily Dickinson: U.S. poet, 1830-1886)
GRATITUDE : Give thanks for unknown blessings that are already on their way. (Unknown Source: )
GRATITUDE : Gratitude is the heart's memory. (Unknown Source: )
GRATITUDE : Half a loaf is better than none. (English proverb: )
GRATITUDE : If you are swept off your feet, it's time to get on your knees. (Fred Beck: U.S. major league baseball player, 1886-1962)
GRATITUDE : If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough. (Oprah Winfrey: U.S. talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist, born 1954.)
GRATITUDE : Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses. (John-Baptiste A. Karr: French critic, journalist, and novelist, 1808-1890)
GRATITUDE : Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. (Albert Schweitzer: French-German philosopher, physician, musician, and Nobel Laureate, 1875-1965)
GRATITUDE : The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. (Unknown Source: )
GRATITUDE : The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other. (Francis W. Weller: U.S. author of children's books)
GRATITUDE : When I started to count my blessings, my whole world turned around. (Willie Nelson: U.S. country music musician, actor, and activist, Born 1933))
GRAVITY : You can’t blame gravity for falling in love. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)
GREAT BRITAIN : Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role. (Dean Acheson: U.S. statesman and Secretary of State who helped design the Marshall Plan and was a key player in the development of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 1893-1971)
GREAT BRITAIN : Small islands not capable of protecting themselves are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something very absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. (Thomas Paine: U.S. political activist, and as a revolutionary he was one of the Founders of the United States of America, 1737-1809)
GREATNESS : Great and good are seldom the same man. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)
GREATNESS : It is not the strength but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)
GREATNESS : There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth. (Leo Tolstoy: Russian novelist and philosopher, 1828-1910)
GREATNESS : There's a pinch of the madman in every great man. (Unknown Source: )
GREED : All some folks want is their fair share and yours. (Arnold H. Glasow: U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)
GREED : Earth has enough for every man's need, but not for every man's greed. (Mahatma Gandhi: Indian leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India who employed nonviolent civil disobedience, and who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)
GREED : Greed lessens what is gathered. (Unknown Source: )
GREED : Greed's worst point is its ingratitude. (Unknown Source: )
GREED : He who is greedy is always in want. (Unknown Source: )
GREED : The greedy man is incontent with a whole world set before him. (Saadi Shirazi: Persian poet, 1210-1291)
GREED : The greedy man stores all but friendship. (Irish Proverb: )
GREED : The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing. (Leigh Hunt: English critic, essayist, and poet, 1784-1859)
GREED : The world can provide for human need but not human greed. (Mahatma Gandhi: Indian leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India who employed nonviolent civil disobedience, and who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)
GREETING : The sight of you is good for sore eyes. (Jonathan Swift: Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric, 1667-1745)
GRIEF : A year is a drop in the bucket when you lose someone you love. (Mary Gouthier: U.S. Grammy nominee of American folk singer-songwriter category, Born 1962)
GRIEF : Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world. (Johann (Jean) P. Richter: German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories. 1763-1825)
GRIEF : Embrace your grief / For there, your soul will grow. (Carl Jung: Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)
GRIEF : Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward. (C. S. Lewis: British novelist, lay theologian, broadcaster, 1898-1963)
GRIEF : Grief is a circular staircase; we feel better and then we feel worse. (Linda Pastan: U.S, poet of Jewish background, who from 1991–1995 was Poet Laureate of Maryland, Born 1932)
GRIEF : Grieving is the tragic, painful "tax" we for loving people. (Tom Lynch: U.S. television series creator and executive producer, Born 1956)
GRIEF : Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of water. (Antoine de Rivarol: Royalist French writer and translator, 1753-1801)
GRIEF : It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. (Unknown Source: )
GRIEF : It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears. (Ovid: Roman poet and a contemporary of Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature, 43 B.C.E.—17 A.D.)
GRIEF : Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see. (Roy T. Bennett: U.S. inspirational author, 1957-2018)
GRIEF : Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief. (Robert Fulghum: U.S. author and Unitarian Universalist minister, Born 1937)
GRIEF : Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated. (Alphonse de Lamartine: French writer, poet, and politician, 1790-1869)
GRIEF : Sorrow has its rewards. It never leaves us where it found us. (Mary B. Eddy: U.S. writer and leader who established the Church of Christ Scientist, founded 'The Christian Science Monitor,' a global newspaper that has won seven Pulitzer Prizes, and was an inductee to the Women's National Hall of Fame, 1821-1910)
GRIEF : Tears are the silent language of grief. (Voltaire: French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)
GRIEF : The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. (Harriet B. Stowe: U.S. abolitionist and author, 1811-1896)
GRIEF : The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves. (Sophocles: Greek playwright who wrote over 120 plays, a few of which have survived, 496—406 B.C.E.)
GRIEF : The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other. (Francis W. Weller: U.S. author of children's books)
GRIEF : There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud, and to know that the words have been heard.( (Victoria Alexander: U.S. best-selling author of historical romance nove, Born 1950)
GRIEF : There is a grief worse than death. It is the grief of a life half-lived. Not because you don't know what could have been but because you do. (Barbara Davis: U.S. novelist)
GRIEF : We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. (William Wordsworth: English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature, 1770-1850)
GRIEF : While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert it only irritates. (Samuel Johnson: English poet, playwright, essayist, critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)
GRIEVANCES : To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. (Eric Hoffer: U.S. moral and social philosopher and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1983)
GROWN-UPS : One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child. (Randall Jarrell: U.S. poet, literary critic, children's author, essayist, and novelist, 1914-1965)
GROWTH : Change is inevitable. Growth is optional. (John C. Maxwell: U.S. author, speaker, and pastor who has written many books, primarily focusing on leadership, Born 1947)
GROWTH : Courage demands a temporary surrender of security. (Gail Sheehy: U.S. author, journalist, and lecturer, Born 1937)
GRUDGES : As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy a rent-free space in your mind. (Isabelle Holland: U.S. author of fiction for children and adults, 1920-2002)
GRUDGES : I don’t hold grudges. I just remember things for a very long time. (Unknown Source: )
GRUDGES : Nobody ever forgets where he buried a hatchet. (Kin Hubbard: U.S. cartoonist, humorist, and journalist, 1868-1930)
GRUDGES : The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes. (Pierre Corneille: French tragedian who is generally considered one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine, 1606-1684)
GRUDGES : There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site. (Sydney J. Harris: U.S. journalist and columnist, 1917-1986)
GRUDGES : To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee. (Unknown Source: )
GUARDIAN : He who has daughters is always a shepherd. (Unknown Source: )
GUESSES : The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion—these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work. (Jerome Bruner: U.S. psychologist who made significant contributions to human cognitive psychology and cognitive learning theory, 1915-2016)
GUESTS : Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)
GUESTS : Unbidden guests are often welcomest when they are gone. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)
GUIDELINES : Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success. (Charles F. Kettering: U.S. inventor, engineer, businessman, the holder of 186 patents, and founder of the Kettering Foundation for research, 1876-1958)
GUILT : A guilty conscience needs no accuser (Geoffrey Chaucer: English poet, author, and civil servant, known for being called the "Father of English Literature," 1340-1400)
GUILT : A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying ... that he is wiser today than yesterday. (Jonathan Swift: Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric, 1667-1745)
GUILT : Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do. (Voltaire: French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)
GUILT : Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. (Unknown Source: )
GUILT : Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt. (George Sewell: English actor, 1924-2007)
GUILT : If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)
GUILT : It is better ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer. (William Blackstone: English jurist, judge, and politician who is most noted for writing the 'Commentaries on the Laws of England,' 1728-1780)
GUILT : It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one. (Voltaire: French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)
GUILT : It is criminal to steal . . . but the blame diminishes as the guilt increases. (J.C.F Von Schiller: German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright, 1864-1937)
GUILT : One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)
GUILT : Remorse begets reform. (William Cowper: English poet and forerunner of Romantic poetry, 1731-1800)
GUILT : Some are guilty, but all are responsible. (Abraham J. Heschel: Polish-born U.S. rabbi and professor, 1907-1972)
GUILT : Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it. (French Proverb: )
GUILT : Wickedness never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman. (Unknown Source: )
GUILT : You're better off being rich and guilty in the U.S. than poor and innocent. (Bryan Stevenson: U.S. lawyer, social justice activist, founder/executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, and a clinical professor at New York University School of Law, Born 1959)
GUILTLESS : Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. (Unknown Source: )
GULLIBILITY : Better be too credulous than too skeptical (Chinese Proverb: )
GULLIBILITY : Gullibility and credulity are considered undesirable qualities in every department of human life—except religion. (Christopher Hitchens: Anglo-American columnist, social critic, and journalist, 1949-2011)
GUMPTION : No guts, no glory! (Frederick C. Blesse: U.S. U.S. Air Force major general and flying ace. (1921-2012))
GUNS : Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun. (Martin Amis: British novelist, Born 1949)