Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

Authors by Name: G

Eva Gabor (6)

I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.

Galileo Galilei (7)

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Mahatma Gandhi (100)

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

Indira Gandhi (5)

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Greta Garbo (4)

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.

Jerry Garcia (4)

Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.

Stephen Gardiner (13)

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

Judy Garland (7)

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.

William Lloyd Garrison (4)

The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.

Marcus Garvey (7)

I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.

Jose Ortega y Gasset (4)

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

Paul Gauguin (4)

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Carl Friedrich Gauss (3)

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.

Theophile Gautier (3)

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

John Gay (2)

The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.

Marvin Gaye (4)

Most fear stems from sin to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Martha Gellhorn (2)

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

Jean Genet (5)

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.

Henry George (4)

The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive its organization is necessarily tyrannical.

J. Paul Getty (12)

I buy when other people are selling.

A. Bartlett Giamatti (2)

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

Edward Gibbon (14)

I was never less alone than when by myself.

Khalil Gibran (56)

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

Andre Gide (22)

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2)

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.

Allen Ginsberg (3)

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

Jean Giraudoux (7)

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

Lillian Gish (2)

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.

William E. Gladstone (7)

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

Ellen Glasgow (4)

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

Jackie Gleason (2)

The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.

William Godwin (5)

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.

Nikolai Gogol (2)

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

Emma Goldman (10)

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

Oliver Goldsmith (8)

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Barry Goldwater (9)

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.

Samuel Goldwyn (16)

Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.

Lefty Gomez (2)

I'm the guy that made Joe DiMaggio famous.

Maxim Gorky (4)

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

Martha Graham (5)

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

Kenneth Grahame (2)

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.

Antonio Gramsci (2)

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

Cary Grant (3)

I think that making love is the best form of exercise.

Ulysses S. Grant (6)

Labor disgraces no man unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

Robert Graves (4)

What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

Thomas Gray (2)

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

Graham Greene (11)

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Joyce Grenfell (2)

Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.

Zane Grey (5)

Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.

Franz Grillparzer (6)

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

Lewis Grizzard (2)

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Sacha Guitry (5)

The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile.

William Gurnall (4)

Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.