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Gather roses while you can.

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.

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A genius grown old becomes worse than mediocre.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.  --Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

The gentleman is harmonious but not conformable; the small man is conformable but not harmonious.  --Confucius (551?-479B.C.) (trans. by Kô Shyôrin (1958-))

Genuine learning has ever been said to give polish to man; why then should it not bestow added charm on women?  --Emma Willard (1787-1870)

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Give and take.

Give me a fish and I will eat today; teach me to fish and I will eat all my life.

Give me a laundry-list and I'll set it to music.  --Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868)

Give me liberty, or give me death!  --Patrick Henry (1736-99)

Give them pleasure the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.  --Sir Alfred (Joseph) Hitchcock (1899-1980)

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Go and beg poppy seeds from some home where death has never entered.  --Gautama Siddhartha (566?-480B.C.)  

God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.  --Mahalia Jackson (1911-72)

Going up like a rocket and coming down like a stick.

A good beginning is half the battle.

A good beginning makes a good ending.

Good comes out of evil.

Good company makes the road shorter.

Good company on the road is the shortest cut.  --Oliver Goldsmith (1728-74): The Vicar of Wakefield

A good composer does not imitate, he steals.  --Igor Fëdorovich Stravinsky (1882-1971)

Good feeding before good breeding.

Good fences make good neighbors.

A good marksman may miss.

A good master a good scholar.

Good medicine is bitter in the mouth.

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.  --Raymond Chandler (1888-1959)

Good swimmers (at length) are oftenest drowned.

A good tale ill told is marred in the telling.

A good thing is known when it is lost.

Good wine makes [engenders] good blood.

Good words cost nothing.

A gossip is one who talks to you about other people. A bore is one who talks to you about himself. A brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.  --W(illiam) L(yon) Mackenzie King (1874-1950)

Gossiping and lying go hand in hand.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.  --Abraham Lincoln (1809-65): "the Gettysburg Address" November 19, 1863

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(What is courage?) Grace under pressure.  --Ernest (Miller) Hemingway (1899-1961)

The grass is greener on the other side of the fence.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.  --Jacques Maritain (1882-1973)

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.  --John Morley [Viscount Morley of Blackburn] (1838-1923)

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.  --Herodotus (484?-425?B.C.)

Great gains are not achieved except by great risks.

The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.--Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.  --(Anna) Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.  --Washington Irving (1783-1859)

Great oaks from little acorns grow.  --Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400)

The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.  --Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

Great pains but all in vain.

Great people just do what they can make themselves while others do nothing but what they can never make.  --Romain Rolland (1866-1944)    

A great ship asks deep waters.

Great ships require deep waters.

The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.  --Elton John (1947-)  

Great things are accomplished by ordinary people with the right convictions, in the right place at the right time. If George Washington was a high school football coach in Texas, we'd fire him. He lost more than he won.  --Vince Clark

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.  --William Blake (1757-1827): Gnomic Verses

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.  --Thomas Mann (1875-1955)

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.  --Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979)

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.  --Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.  --William Saroyan (1908-81)

The greatest hate proceeds from the greatest love.

The greatest talkers are not always the wisest man.

The greatest talkers are the least doers.