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Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

- Zsa Zsa Gabor

 

A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.

- Zsa Zsa Gabor

 

Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.

- Serge Gainsbourg

 

Just as there must be balance in what a community produces, so there must also be balance in what the community consumes.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

 

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

 

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

 

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

 

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

 

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

 

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

 

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

 

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

- Galileo Galilei

 

Doubt is the father of invention.

- Galileo Galilei

 

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

- Galileo Galilei

 

When I despair...I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it ... always.

- Mahatma Gandhi

 

Be the change you want to see in the world.

- Mahatma Gandhi

 

Consciously or unconsciously, everyone of us does render some service or another. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberatly, our desider for service will steadily grow stronger, and it will make not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.

- Mahatma Gandhi

 

Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

- Mahatma Gandhi

 

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

- Mahatma Gandhi

 

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

- Mahatma Gandhi

 

I think it would be a good idea.

- Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization

 

You know you're getting old when everything hurts. And what doesn't hurt doesn't work.

- Hy Gardner

 

Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

- John W. Gardner

 

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

- James A. Garfield

 

With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but with tyrants, I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

- William Lloyd Garrison

 

I'll not listen to reason. Reason always means what someone else has to say.

- Elizabeth Gaskell

 

Love for what is near and small makes the sublime real and effective within our hearts.

- Jose Ortega y Gasset

 

That we can comprehend the little we know already is mindboggling in itself.

- Tom Gates

 

We only part to meet again.

- John Gay

 

Expressing anger is a form of public littering.

- Willard Gaylin

 

I wouldn't mind dying -- it's the business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me.

- R. Geis

 

If you understand, things are as they are.
If you do not understand, things are as they are.

- Gensha

 

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

- Dave Tyson Gentry

 

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

- David Lloyd George

 

No age or time of life, no position or circumstance, has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing!

- Gerard

 

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

- J. Paul Getty

 

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

- Mohandas Ghandi

 

Tenderness and Kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions

- Kahlil Gibran

 

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

- Andre Gide

 

Art is a collarboration between God an the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

- Andre Gide

 

Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.

- Andre Gide

 

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

- Andre Gide

 

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

- Frank Gifford

 

Every civilizing step in history has been ridiculed as 'sentimental', 'impractical', or 'womanish', etc., by those whose fun, profit or convenience was at stake.

- Joan Gilbert

 

You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.

- W. S. Gilbert

 

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

- Jean Giraudoux

 

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

- Bhagavad Gita

 

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

- Arnold H. Glasgow

 

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.

- Arnold H. Glasgow

 

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

- Arnold H. Glasgow

 

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.

- Max Gluckman

 

He alone is great and happy who requires neither to command nor to obey in order to secure his being of some importance in the world.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much perfoms much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

- Vincent Van Gogh

 

If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.

- Robert F. Goheen

 

A fine is a tax for breaking the law; a tax is a fine for obeying the law.

- J. H. Goldfuss

 

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

- Emma Goldman

 

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

- Goldsmith

 

A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

- Edmond & Jules Goncourt

 

Humor is a universal language.

- Joel Goodman

 

The impossible is often the untried.

- Jim Goodwin

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

- Rabbi Julins Gordon

 

Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver.

- Hermann Goring

 

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

- Makism Gorky

 

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

- Remy De Gourmant

 

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

- Goya

 

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.

- Sheila Graham

 

When you hire people who a smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.

- R.H. Grant

 

Most people say that as you get old, you have to give things up. I think you get old because you give things up.

- Theodore Green

 

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.

- Graham Greene

 

Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate if you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another name?

- Graham Greene

 

Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.

- Robert Greenleaf

 

I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

- Stephan Grellet

 

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?

- Greville

 

I go by many names, under many skies, doing many things, yet am always at the same place. I eat up its power, reveling in anguish. I love, I lie, I am only a human. This is my life, no trespassing. Please.

- The Lord Greycloak

 

The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

- Alfred Whitney Griswold

 

When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.

- Matt Groening

 

The little I know I owe to my ignorance.

- Sacha Guitry

 

You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.

- Sacha Guitry

 

One may say that evil does not exist for subjective man at all, that there exist only different conceptions of good. Nobody ever does anything deliberately in the interests of evil, for the sake of evil. Everybody acts in the interests of good, as he understands it. But everybody understands it in a different way. Consequently men drown, slay, and kill one another in the interests of good.

- Gurdjieff

 

I have often depended on the blindness of strangers.

- Adrienne E. Gusoff