Gold
- It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.
-- Thomas Fuller
- Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble.
-- Yiddish Proverb
- Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.
-- Antoine Rivarol
- The man who works for the gold in the job rather than for the money in the pay envelope, is the fellow who gets on.
-- Joseph French Johnson
- Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.
-- Vergil
- There is thy gold; worse poison to men's souls,
Doing more murther in this loathsome world,
Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell:
-- William Shakespeare
- Gold will be slave or master.
-- Horace
- Gold has worked down from Alexander's time ... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.
-- Bernard M. Baruch
- A mask of gold hides all deformities.
-- Thomas Dekker
Gossip
- Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
-- George Bancroft
- None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
-- Charles Caleb Colton
- Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.
-- Thomas Fuller
- Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.
-- Josiah Gilbert Holland
- What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
-- Edgar Watson Howe
- There isn't much to be seen in a little town, but what you hear makes up for it.
-- Kin Hubbard
- Knowledge is power if you know about the right person.
-- Ethel Watts Mumford
- A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
-- Ouida
- A little public scandal is good once in a while. It takes the tension out of the news.
-- Beryl Pfizer
- And all who told it added something new,
And all who heard it made enlargements too.
-- Alexander Pope
- Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.
-- Antoine Rivarol
- The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
-- Will Rogers
- No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
-- Bertrand Russel
- What some invent, the rest enlarge.
-- Jonathan Swift
- That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.
-- Izaak Walton
- Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
-- Walter Winchell
Government
- Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed.
-- Bernhard Berenson
- The government is becoming the family of last resort.
-- Jerry Brown
- The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.
-- James F. Byrnes
- The point to remember is that what the Government gives it must first take away.
-- John Caldwell
- In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
-- Thomas Carlyle
- He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich that they in turn may care for the laboring poor.
-- Grover Cleveland
- The American wage earner and the American housewife are a lot better economists than most economists care to admit. They know that a government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
-- Gerald R. Ford
- Good government is no substitute for self-government.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
- All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
-- James A. Garfield
- Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- A goverment that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
-- Barry Goldwater
- A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious in the former, and contemptible in the latter.
-- George Greenville
- Far more important to me is, that I should be loyal to what I regard as the law of my political life, which is this: a belief that that country is best governed, which is least governed ...
-- George Hoadly
- Government is a kind of legalized pillage.
-- Elbert Hubbard
- That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves.
-- Thomas Jefferson
- Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right.
-- Lyndon B. Johnson
- My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on.
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- You can't run a government solely on a business basis ... Government should be human. It should have a heart.
-- Herbert Henry Lehman
- Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?
-- Abraham Lincoln
- No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln
- Every country has the government it deserves.
-- Joseph de Maistre
- You have the God-given right to kick the government around--don't hesitate to do so.
-- Edmund Muske
- The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
-- William Penn
- The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men.
-- Plato
- A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston
- Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
-- Will Rogers
- The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
- The true art of government consists in not governing too much.
-- Jonathan Shipley
- Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson
- Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman
- Government is not reason, it is not eloquence -- it is force.
-- George Washington
Grace
- Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
-- William Hazlitt
- He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural.
-- William Shakespeare
- Beauty and grace command the world.
-- Park Benjamin
- God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
- How inimitably graceful children are before they learn to dance.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Grace is to the body, what good sense is to the mind.
-- François de La Rochefoucauld
- A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.
-- Francis Bacon
- Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life?
-- Henry Harland
- Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect.
-- Charles A. Stoddard
Gratitude
- Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.
-- Lord Halifax
- Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau
- If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
-- Mark Twain
- Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
-- Felix Frankfurter
- Nothing tires a man more than to be grateful all the time.
-- Ed Howe
- There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
-- Seneca
- Gratitude is the heart's memory.
-- French Proverb
- Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
-- Cicero
- Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
Grave
- He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.
-- Philip II
- An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.
-- Edward Young
- We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.
-- Tryon Edwards
- The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny.
-- G. C. Lichtenberg
- There is but one easy place in this world, and that is the grave.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
- A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
-- Ellen Glasgow
Gravity
- Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater
- Gravity is only the bark of wisdom; but it preserves it.
-- Confucius
- Those wanting wit affect gravity, and go by the name of solid men.
-- John Dryden
- Gravity is a trick of the body devised to conceal deficiencies of the mind.
-- François de La Rochefoucauld
- There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.
-- Josh Billings
Greatness
- Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.
--William F. Halsey
- There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
--Charles Dudley Warner
- Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
--Edmund Burke
- In my stars I am above thee, but be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.
--William Shakespeare
- Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
--Albert Einstein
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