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601. A good paymaster never wants workmen.

602. A good person can put himself in the place of a bad person more easily than a bad person can put himself in the place of a good person.

603. A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

604. A good reputation is something you must pay for, but you can never buy

605. A good run is better than a long stand.

606. A good scapegoat is hard to find.

607. A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

608. A good sermon leaves you wondering how the preacher knew all about you.

609. A good sermon should have a good beginning and a good ending, and they should be as close together as possible. (George Burns)

610. A good sheep paddock spoiled. - King O'Malley, of Canberra

611. A good shift may serve long, but it will not serve ever.

612. A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color. --Oliver Wendell Holmes

613. A good speech isn't one that can be proven to be telling the truth but one that can't be proven to be lying

614. A good surgeon must have an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand.

615. A good tale ill told is marred in the telling.

616. A good tale is none the worse for being twice told.

617. A GOOD TEMPER.---It is a medicine which brings relief,---And moderates the malady of grief;---It is a ceaseless spring from which cloth flow---Contentment, peace, and happiness below;---It is the pilot which our bark will guide---Safe past the rocks of envy, hate, or pride;---It is the soft south wind that mildly blows,---Carrying sweet fragrance where-so'er it goes;---It is the shield that will protect our hearts---From malice, and from envy's poisoned darts;---Like water cloth it fall on hatred's flame,---And either quenches or abates the same;---But on affection's pure and hallow'd fire---It falls like oil and makes it mount the higher. ---(R. W. JACKSON).

618. A good thing is soon snatched up.

619. A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water. Sidney Goff

620. A good wife always laughs at her husbands jokes, not because they are clever, but because she is.

621. A good wife and health is a man's best wealth.

622. A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient edifice into a ruin.

623. A good wife makes a good husband.

624. A good woman is like a good bar...liquor in the front and poker in the rear.

625. A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs us nothing. ---(TlLLOTSON).

626. A goodly apple rotten at the heart; O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

627. A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. --Oliver Wendell Holmes

628. A gossip is someone who talks to you about others, a bore is someone who talks to you about himself, and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself. Lisa Kirk

629. A gossips mouth is the devils postbag.

630. A goverment that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away. -- Barry Goldwater

631. A government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.--Henry David Thoreau,On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

632. A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston

633. A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.

634. A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

635. A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation. -- Francis Bacon

636. A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults. --Louis Nizer

637. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.from Live Without Principle

638. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit.

639. A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne

640. A great city, a great solitude.

641. A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. Ariel Durant

642. A great country is lowly. Everything under heaven blends with it. It is like the female, at all times and in every place overcomes the male by her quietude. Than quietude there is nothing that is more lowly. Therefore a great state gains by yielding; while the smaller state wins the greater by submission. In the one case lowliness gains adherents, in the other it procures favors.

643. A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.--Deng Xiaoping, Chinese Premier:

644. A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

645. A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.

646. A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.--Goethe

647. A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.

648. A great fortune is a great slavery.

649. A great idea needs landing gear, not just wings.

650. A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling, and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you.

651. A great many open minds should be closed for repairs. --Toledo Blade Newspaper

652. A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re-arranging their prejudices. (William James)

653. A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

654. A great mind becomes a great fortune.

655. A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. Fontenelle

656. A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

657. A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. -Albert Schweitzer

658. A great ship asks deep waters.

659. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

660. A great war leaves the country with three armies- an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.

661. A green old age, unconscious of decay That proves the hero born in better days.

662. A green winter (or Christmas) makes a fat churchyard.

663. A green wound is soon healed.

664. A greyhound finds food in its feet

665. A growing youth has a wolf in his belly.

666. A grunting horse and a groaning wife seldom fail their master.

667. A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year. Polish Proverb

668. A guilty CONSCIENCE feels continual fear.

669. A guilty conscience is like a whirl-pool drawing in all to itself, which would otherwise pass by. ---(THOMAS FULLER).

670. A guilty conscience needs no accuser.

671. A habit is something you can do without thinking--which is why most of us have so many of them. (Frank A. Clark)

672. A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory. --Austin O'Malley

673. A hair of the dog that bit you. (A drink to cure the effect of a previous debauch).

674. A hair on the head is worth two on the brush.

675. A hand in the bush is better than a bird in the hand.

676. A handful of good life is better than a bushel of learning.

677. A handfull of patience is worth a bushel of brains. Dutch Proverb

678. A handstaff of holly, a buailtin of hazel, a single sheaf and a clean floor.

679. A hangover... the wrath of grapes.

680. A happy family is but an earlier heaven. --John Bowring

681. A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short."-- Andre Maurois

682. A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

683. A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. (Hugh Downs)

684. A hard thing about business is minding your own.

685. A head like a snake,

686. A healthy adult male bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. -- John Updike

687. A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison. --Francis Bacon

688. A heart in love with beauty never grows old. Turkish Proverb

689. A heart unspotted is not easily daunted.

690. A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash. -- Puzant Kevork Thomajan

691. A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes, and hearts, and ears; bred by desire, nursed by delight, weaned by jealousy, killed by dissembling, buried by ingratitude; and this is love.

692. A heavy burden does not kill on the day it is carried. (Kenyan Proverb)

693. A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples. When we do good to them, it is not benevolence--it is atonement. --Albert Schweitzer

694. A heavy purse makes a light heart.

695. A hedge between keeps friendship green.

696. A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. -- Samuel Butler.

697. A hero is born among a hundred, A wise man is found among a thousand, But an accomplished one might not be found Even among a hundred thousand men.

698. A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

699. A hero is one who does what he can. The others don't.--Romain Rolland

700. A high building, a low foundation.


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