Quotations Page 'G'
Thursday, 07 November 2024
Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.
- E.H.Chapin -
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Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss.
- Pubilious Syrus -
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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
- Herbert -
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So faithfull in love and so dauntless in war.There never was knight like the young Lochinvar
- Scott, Marmion -
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There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate; when he can't afford it and when he can.
- Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson Calender -
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Keep flax from fire and youth from gambling.
- Franklin -
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It is the child of avarice, the brother of inequity, and the father of mischief.
- George Washington -
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Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature. - Burke, Speech on Economical Reform.The game is not worth the candle.
- Montaigne, Essay -
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It is not shameful to have palyed games, but it is shameful not to have left of playing them.
- Horace Epistles -
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The best place to seek God is in a garden. You dig for Him there.
- G B Shaw, Adventures of the Black Girl -
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God the first Garden made, and the first city Cain.
- Gawley -
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God Almighty first planted a garden; and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.
- Bacon, Of Gardens -
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General and abstract ideas are the source of the greatest of man's errors.
- Rousseau, Emile -
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General notions are generally wrong.
- Lady M.Morley Mantagu, Letter -
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My beauty is as bountiless as the sea, My love as deep.
- Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet -
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There was man, though some did think him mad.The more he cast away, the more he had.
- Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress -
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Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
- Buffon -
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Genius is infinite painstaking.
- Longfellow, To Revenue officers in America -
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Spiritual life is the genius of India.
- S.Radhakrishnan, Great Indians -
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