Gain
- Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss.
-- Publilius Syrus
- Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
-- George Herbert
- The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.
-- Francis Beaumont
- And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning
- It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.
-- Thorstein Veblen
- No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.
-- Latin Proverb
- For everything you have missed you have gained something.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gallantry
- To give up your seat in a car to a woman, and tread on your neighbor's foot to get even.
-- Elbert Hubbard
- Gallantry to women--the sure road to their favor--is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.
-- William Hazlitt
- To do a perfectly unselfish act for selfish motives.
-- Elbert Hubbard
- Gallantry of the mind is saying the most empty things in an agreeable manner.
-- François de la Rochefoucauld
Generosity
- We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
-- W.H. Auden
- The more he cast away the more he had.
-- John Bunyan
- The only gift is a portion of thyself.
-- Ralph Walso Emerson
- What I gave, I have; what I spent, I had; what I kept, I lost.
-- Old Epitaph
- Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
-- Kahlil Gibran
- All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.
-- Homer
- Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself.
-- Joseph Joubert
- Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
-- Ignatius Loyola
- Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
-- Horace Mann
- Gifts are hooks.
-- Martial
- We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
-- Mignon McLaughlin
- What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
-- François de la Rochefoucauld
Genius
- Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
-- Henri Frédéric Amiel
- No great genius is without an admixture of madness.
-- Aristotle
- Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.
-- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
- I don't want to be a genius--I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
-- Albert Camus
- When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius.
-- William Crashaw
- Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought,
But Genius must be born; and never can be taught.
-- John Dryden
- Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
-- Thomas A. Edison
- When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men--that is genius.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.
-- Lord Essex
- One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
-- John Watson Foster
- Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
-- Benjamin Franklin
- Genius develops in quiet places, character out in the full current of human life.
-- Goethe
- Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent--the power to do the right thing the first time.
-- Elbert Hubbard
- Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
-- Joseph Joubert
- Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede--not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen.
-- G. C. Lichtenberg
- It is the privilege of genius that to it life never grows commonplace as to the rest of us.
-- James Russell Lowell
- Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov
- Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.
-- Christopher Quill
- When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by the sign that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
-- Jonathan Swift
- True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genii.
-- Puzant Kevork Thomajan
Gentleman
- This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
-- William Lyon Phelps
- We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- ... one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
-- Oliver Herford
- The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one.
-- Robert S. Surtees
- The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense.
-- Puzant Kevork Thomajan
- A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.
-- Robert E. Lee
Girls
- Some girls never know what they are going to do from one husband to another.
-- Tom Masson
- I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do now.
-- Will Rogers
- Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people.
-- Allan Beck
- A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.
-- Allan Beck
- I am fond of children--except boys.
-- Lewis Carroll
- It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.
-- Heinrich Heine
Glory
- Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.
-- Martial
- Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
-- Oliver Goldsmith
- For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
-- Charles de Gaulle
- Glory built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
-- William Cowper
- Glory is the shadow of virtue.
-- Latin Proverb
- The fire of glory is the torch of the mind.
-- Anonymous
- Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
-- Joseph P. Thompson
Glutton
- In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
-- Benjamin Franklin
- Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.
-- French Proverb
- They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.
-- Juvenal
- The fool that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.
-- George W. Thornbury
- A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who "lives well."
-- Elbert Hubbard
- The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.
-- Josh Billings
- One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man.
-- George Fordyce
- The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.
-- Seneca
- Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.
-- Charles Buck
- One should eat to live, not live to eat.
-- Benjamin Franklin
God
- How to make God laugh: Tell him your future plans.
-- Woody Allen
- God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.
-- Saint Augustine
- For I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.
-- Alben W. Barkley
- God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.
-- Heywood Broun
- Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.
-- John Burroughs
- God made the country and man made the town.
-- William Cowper
- You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.
-- Ernest Dimnet
- God never made His work for man to mend.
-- John Dryden
- God is clever, but not dishonest.
-- Albert Einstein
- God enters by a private door into every individual.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Try thyself first, and after call in God. For to the worker God himself lends aid.
-- Euripides
- God is not a cosmic bell-boy for whom we can press a button to get things done.
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick
- It's God--I'd have known Him by Blake's picture anywhere.
-- Robert Frost
- Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
-- Robert Frost
- I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup
- If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
-- Goncourt
- We love the Lord, of course, but we often wonder what He finds in us.
-- Ed Howe
- An honest God is the noblest work of man.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll
- You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say.
-- Benjamin Jowett
- God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
-- G. C. Lichtenberg
- I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.
-- Abraham Lincoln
- Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
-- H. L. Mencken
- Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.
-- Christopher Morley
- What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
- There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Two men please God--who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.
-- Nikita Ivanovich Panin
- God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.
-- Plutarch
- God sends us meat, the devil sends us cooks.
-- Proverb
- I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.
-- Edwin Arlington Robinson
- I fear God, and next to God I chiefly fear him who fears Him not.
-- Saadi
- When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves.
-- George Bernard Shaw
- Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employ a million.
-- Mark Twain
- The best way to know God is to love many things.
-- Vincent van Gogh
- If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him.
-- Voltaire
- If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire
- In the faces of men and women I see God.
-- Walt Whitman
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