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GAMBLING : There is but one good throw upon the dice, which is to throw them away. (Paul Chatfield)

GARDENS : Gardening is landscape painting. (Alexander Pope, English poet who is considered the second most quoted writer in the English language after Shakespeare, 1688-1744)

GARDENS : Pleasure for an hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for a year, marriage. Pleasure for a lifetime, a garden. (Chinese proverb)

GARDENS : Gardening is an exercise in optimism. (Maria Schinz, German photographer)

GENDER : When men realized that women bleed every month and donï¿½t die, they became fearful of womenï¿½s power. (Ada Rosenbaum, U.S. businesswoman, 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 : There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody. (‘Flo’ Kennedy, U.S. lawyer, feminist, civil rights advocate, and lecturer, 1916-2000)

GENDER : There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody. (Unknown Source)

GENDER : When men realized that women bleed every month and don't die, they became fearful of women's power. (Ada Rosenbaum, U.S. businesswoman, Born 1939)

GENDER : Life is a foreign language; most men mispronounce it. (Christopher Morley, U.S. journalist, novelist, essayist and poet, 1890-1957)

GENDER : There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody. (Flo Kennedy, U.S. lawyer, feminist, civil rights advocate, and lecturer, 1916-2000)

GENDER : If you want something talked about, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. (Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister)

GENDER : If you want something talked about, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. (Unknown Source)

GENDER : A woman is like a tea bag - only in hot water do you realize how strong she is. (Nancy Reagan, U.S. film actress and the wife of Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, 1921-2016)

GENDER : Life is a foreign language; most men mispronounce it. (Unknown Source)

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 : 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 EQUALITY : 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 and political activist, Born 1934)

GENERATIONS : A gulf of unshared experience gapes between generations. (Unknown source)

GENERATIONS : Grandparents and grandchildren so often get along very well. Remove one generation â€” twenty-five years at least â€” and the anger in both directions dissipates. (Charles Frazier, U.S. novelist who won the 1997 National Book Award for Fiction, Born 1950)

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)

GENEROSITY : You give your all and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing. (Simone de Beauvoir, French writer, intellectual, political activist, and feminist, 1908-1986)

GENEROSITY : Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. (Albert Camus, French Nobel prize-winning writer and philosopher, 1913-1960)

GENIUS : Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see. (Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher, 1788-1860)

GENIUS : Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. (Thomas Alva Edison, U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

GENIUS : Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. (Thomas Alva Edison, U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

GENIUS : A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see-and hits it. (Unknown source)

GENIUS/MATURITY : The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity. (Unknown Source)

GENTLEMEN : A gentleman is man who can disagree without being disagreeable. (Unknown source)

GEOLOGY : Civilization exists with geologic consent, subject to change without notice. (Will Durant, U.S. writer, historian, and philosopher, 1885-1981)

GIVING : We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. (Unknown Source)

GIVING : What we have done for OURSELVES alone, dies with us; what we have done for OTHERS and the WORLD remains and is immortal. (Unknown Source)

GIVING : No one has ever become poor by giving. (Anne Frank, German-born diarist and Jewish victim of the Holocaust, 1929-1945)

GIVING : Giving rarely moves in a straight line; it usually moves in circles. (Unknown source)

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 : A bit of perfume always clings to the hand that gives the rose. (Chinese proverb)

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)

GLOBAL CITIZEN : My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. (Thomas Paine, U.S. philosopher and writer, 1737-1809)

GOALS : We all have two choices we can make a living OR we can design a life. (John Quincy Adams, U.S. politician who served as the sixth President of the United States, 1767-1848)

GOALS : Don’t let the sun set without taking a bite out of the road toward your goal. (Unknown source)

GOALS : We all have two choices. We can make a living OR we can design a life. (Unknown Source)

GOALS : Goals are only wishes unless you have a plan. (Melinda Gates, U.S. businesswoman and philanthropist, Born 1964)

GOALS : In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become loyal to performing daily trivia until we become enslaved by it. (Robert Heinlein, U.S. science-Fiction writer, often called the 'dean of science-fiction writers,' 1907-1988)

GOALS : When you don't know what harbor you're aiming for, no wind is the right wind. (Seneca, Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 BCEâ€“AD 65)

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 : It's never too late to be what you might have been. (George Eliot [pen name of Mary Ann Evans], English novelist, 1819-1880)

GOALS : We all have two choices: We can make a living OR we can design a life. (John Quincy Adams, U.S. politician who served as the sixth President of the United States, 1767-1848)

GOALS : Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it. (Francois de la La Rochefoucauld, French nobleman and author of maxims and memoirs, 1613-1680)

GOALS : He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. (Friedrich Nietsche, German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

GOALS : There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning. (U.S. Christopher Morley, U..S. journalist, novelist, essayist, and poet, 1890-1957)

GOALS : The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going. (David Starr Jordan, U.S. zoologist, educator, eugenicist, and peace activist, 1851-1931)

GOALS : The soul that has no established aim loses itself. (Michel de Montaigne, French philosopher and essayist, 1533-1592)

GOALS : He turns not back who is bound to a star. (Leonardo Da Vinci, Italian Renaissance polymath whose interests were inventing, painting, sculpture, architecture, mathematics, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, history, and cartography, 1452-1519)

GOALS : No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port. (Michel de Montaigne, French philosopher and essayist, 1533-1592)

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 : Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. (David Lloyd George, British politician who served as the Prime Minister during World War I, 1863-1945)

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)

GOALS : On the human chessboard, all moves are possible. (Miriam Schiff)

GOALS : Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought. (Unknown Source)

GOD : I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. (Unknown Source)

GOD : It is the heart which experiences God, and not the reason. This, then, is faith â€” God felt by the heart, not by the reason. (Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and Catholic theologian, 1623-1662)

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 : God is in you as the ocean is in the wave. (Eric Butterworth, Canadian educator, 1916-2003)

GOD : I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. (Frank Lloyd Wright, U.S. architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, 1867-1959)

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 God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. (Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer and philosopher, 1694-1778)

GOD : I believe in the incomprehensibility of God. (Honore de Balzac, French novelist and playwright, 1799-1850)

GOD : God enters by a private door into every individual. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

GOD : God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere. (Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer and philosopher, 1694-1778)

GOLDEN RULE : Don't do onto others what you would not want done onto you. (Confucius, Chinese philosopher and teacher, c. 551-478 BCE)

GOLDEN RULE : Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

GOLDEN RULE : We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life. (Edwin Markham, social protest poet and Poet Laureate of the state of Oregon, 1852-1940)

GOLDEN YEARS : We've been warned against letting the golden hours slip by, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by. (James M. Barrie, Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan, 1860-1937)

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 : Golf is a good walk spoiled. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

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 didn't do. (Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer and philosopher, 1694-1778)

GOODNESS : Be not simply good; be good for something. (Henry David Thoreau, U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

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)

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 : We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found. (Tzvetan Todorov, Bulgarian-French historian, geologist, and philosopher, 1939-2017)

GOODNESS : What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. (Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist and philosopher, 1828-1910)

GOODNESS : He that does good for goodâ€™s sake seeks neither praise nor reward, though sure of both at last. (William Penn, English nobleman, writer, early Quaker, and founder of the English North American colony the Province of Pennsylvania, 1644-1718)

GOSSIP : Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. (Eleanor Roosevelt, politician, diplomat, and activist who was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, 1884-1962)

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. (John Hay)

GOSSIP : Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you. (Spanish proverb)

GOVERNANCE : Iron hand in a velvet glove. (Charles V., Holy Roman Emperor, Ruling Prince of the Habsburg Netherlands, and King of Spain, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500-1558)

GOVERNANCE : 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)

GOVERNANCE : Another world is not only possible, she is on her way; on a quiet day I can hear her breathing. (Arundhati Roy, Indian author and political activist in human rights and environmental causes, Born 1961)

GOVERNMENTS : In public services, we lag behind all the industrialized nations of the West, preferring that the public money go not to the people but to big business. The result is a unique society in which we have free enterprisefor the poor and socialism for the rich. (Gore Vidal, U.S. writer and political pundit, 1925-2012)

GOVERNMENTS : In public services, we lag behind all the industrialized nations of the West, preferring that the public money go not to the people but to big business. The result is a unique society in which we have free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich. (Gore Vidal, U.S. writer and political pundit, 1925-2012)

GOVERNMENTS : The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convince Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction . . . no longer exist. (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)

GOVERNMENTS : Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. (Unknown Source)

GOVERNMENTS : Government run by organized money is more fearful than government run by organized mobs. (Unknown Source)

GOVERNMENTS : 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)

GOVERNMENTS : A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

GOVERNMENTS : 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)

GOVERNMENTS : Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. (Lord Acton, English historian, politician, and writer, 1834-1902)

GOVERNMENTS : The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind. (Thomas Paine, U.S. philosopher and writer, 1737-1809)

GOVERNMENTS : It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. (Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer and philosopher, 1694-1778)

GOVERNMENTS : 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)

GOVERNMENTS : In public services, we lag behind all the industrialized nations of the West, preferring that the public money go not to the people but to big business. The result is a unique society in which we have free enterprisfor the poor and socialism for the rich. (Gore Vidal, U.S. writer and political pundit, 1925-2012)

GOVERNMENTS : The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind. (Unknown Source)

GOVERNMENTS : A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

GOVERNMENTS : The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able. (Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and Catholic theologian, 1623-1662)

GOVERNMENTS : Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. (Edmund Burke, Irish statesman who served in the British Parliament, author, orator, and political philosopher, 1729-1797)

GOVERNMENTS : Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Don't overdo it. (Lao Tzu, ancient Chinese philosopher and writer who is the reputed founder of philosophical Taoism, 604-531 B.C.E.)

GOVERNMENTS : 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)

GOVERNMENTS : It seems to me that government is like a pump, and what it pumps up is just what we are, a fair sample of the intellect, the ethics and the morals of the people, no better, no worse. (Adlai Stevenson, U.S. lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 1900-1965)

GRADUALNESS : The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. (Moliere, French actor and playwright, 1622-1673)

GRADUATION : The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. (Robert Hutchins, educational philosopher, dean of Yale Law School, and president and chancellor of the University of Chicago, 1899-1977)

GRAMMAR : Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over Windows versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi, and boxers versus briefs. (Jack Lynch, English professor and author, Born 1967)

GRANDMOTHERS : The soul of the grandchild lives in the heart of the grandmother. (Unknown source)

GRATITUDE : Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses (Alphonse Karr, French critic, journalist, and novelist, French critic, journalist, and novelist, 1808-1890)

GRATITUDE : Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses. (Alphonse Karr, French critic, journalist, and novelist, French critic, journalist, and novelist, 1808-1890)

GRATITUDE : Gratitude is the heart's memory. (French proverb)

GREATNESS : Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them. (R.H. Tawney, English economic historian, social critic, and ethical socialist, 1880-1962)

GREATNESS : Great and good are seldom the same man. (Thomas Fuller, English churchman, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

GREATNESS : His eminence was due to the flatness of the surrounding landscape. (John Stuart Mill, British philosopher, political economist, and civil servant, 1806-1873)

GREATNESS : It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men. (Friedrich Nietsche, German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

GREATNESS : There's a pinch of the madman in every great man. (French proverb)

GREATNESS : The biggest dog has been a pup. (Joaquin Miller, U.S. poet and frontiersman, 1837-1913)

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 against British rule who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

GREED : He who is greedy is always in want. (Horace, Roman lyric poet and satirist, 65 to 8 BCE)

GREED : Greed lessens what is gathered. (Arabian proverb)

GREED : The greedy man is incontent with a whole world set before him. (Saadi [Saadi of Shiraz], 13th century Persian poet, 1210-1291)

GREED : Greed's worst point is its ingratitude. (Seneca, Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 BCEâ€“AD 65)

GREETING : You are my other me, we are mirrors of each other. If I do harm to you, I do harm to myself. If I love and respect you, I love and respect myself. (Mayan philosophy)

GREETING : I am pleased to see that we are different. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us. (Vulcan Greeting from Star Trek)

GRIEF : Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated. (Alphonse de Lamartine, French writer, poet and politician, 1790-1869)

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 : 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. (Cicero, Roman philosopher, politician, 106 BCE-43 AD)

GUESTS : Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone. (William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

GUILT : Wickedness never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman. (Seneca, Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 BCEâ€“AD 65)

GUNS : Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun. (Martin Amis, British novelist, Born 1949)