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101. Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.

102. Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them. from The Power of Positive Thinking

103. Getting rich is easy. It just takes a lot of work.from Cupernick's Rebellion

104. Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely. --Kin Hubbard

105. Getting to the top isn't bad, and it's probably best done as an afterthought. Anne Wilson Shaef

106. Getting up in the morning is simply a matter of mind over mattress.

107. Giff gaff (one gift for another) makes good friends.

108. Gifts are hooks. -- Martial

109. Gilb's Laws Of Unreliability: 1) At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer you will find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer.

110. Gilb's Laws Of Unreliability: 2) Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable.

111. Gilb's Laws Of Unreliability: 3) Udetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited.

112. Gilb's Laws Of Unreliability: 4) Investment inreliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cost of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.

113. Ginsberg's Theorem: 1. You can't win.

114. Ginsberg's Theorem: 2. You can't break even.

115. Ginsberg's Theorem: 3. You can't even quit the game.

116. Girls return his letters marked Fourth Class Male.

117. Gisjdbrim' TV-Know thyself.

118. Give a bairn his will, and a whelp his fill, and none of these two will thrive.

119. Give a child till he craves, and a dog while his tail doth wave, and you'll have a fair dog, but a foul knave.

120. Give a clown your FINGER, and he will take your hand.

121. Give a dog a bad name and hang him.

122. Give a lie twenty-four hours' start, and you can never overtake it.

123. Give a loaf, and beg a strive [slice].

124. Give a man a fish and he won't starve for a day. Teach a man how to fish and he won't starve for his entire life. (African proverb)

125. Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish. --Timothy Jones

126. Give a man free hands and you'll know where to find them.

127. Give a man luck, and throw him into the sea.

128. Give a thief rope enough, and he'll hang himself.

129. Give a thing and take again And you shall ride in hell's vain.

130. Give a woman an inch and she'll park a car in it.

131. Give according to your income, lest God will make your income like your giving.

132. Give and spend, and God will send.

133. Give credit where credit is due.

134. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.

135. Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend.

136. Give him a couple of glasses and I'm sure to make a spectacle of himself.

137. Give him a fish, he eats today teach him to fish, he eats for the rest of his life.

138. Give him an INCH and he'll take an ell.

139. Give him an inch, and he measures it.

140. Give him an inch, and he'll take an elf.

141. Give him rope enough and he'll hang himself.

142. Give losers leave to speak (or talk).

143. Give masochists a fair crack of the whip.

144. Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards. --Anonymous

145. Give me a fish and I will eat today. Teach me to fish and I will eat for a lifetime!

146. Give me a laundry-list and I'll set it to music.

147. Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

148. Give me a place to stand on and I will move the earth.

149. Give me a productive error over a boring, mundane and unproductive fact any day. --Anon.

150. Give me ambiguity or give me something else.

151. Give me an army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle...Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war.

152. Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. - Saint Augustine

153. Give me liberty, or give me death. - Patrick Henry

154. Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it! --Immanuel Kant

155. Give me my home, to quiet dear, ---Where hours untold and peaceful move; ---So fate ordained I sometimes there ---May hear the voice of him I love. ---(AMELIA OPIE).

156. Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods. --Esther M. Clark

157. Give me the avowed, the erect, and manly foe, Bold I can meet, perhaps may turn the blow; But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh save me from the candid friend! The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

158. Give me the Luxuries, and the Hell with the Necessities!

159. Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue. --Giuseppe Garibaldi

160. Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breath free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door. - Inscription on Statue of Liberty

161. Give more than you planned to.--Wanda Hope Carter

162. Give neither COUNSEL nor salt till you are asked for it.

163. Give never the wolf the wether to keep.

164. Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.--Ralph Waldo Emerson

165. Give not unto the actor his props before his time, for as surely as the sun does rise in the East and set in the West, he will lose or break them.

166. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.

167. Give plenty of what is given to you, And listen to pity's call; Don't think the little you give is great And the much you get is small. (Phoebe Cary 1824-1871)

168. Give sadists a fair crack of the whip.

169. Give the devil his due.

170. Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.

171. Give the future enough thought to be ready for it. but don't fret about it too much. Live each day as though you will die the next sunrise. Never think about the past. ever. No regrets.

172. Give them pleasure -- the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

173. Give thought to your reputation. Consider changing name and moving to a new town.

174. Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries , and you will have a fine pig and a bad child. Danish Proverb

175. Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for--because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything. --Peter Marshall

176. Give us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for, because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything. (Peter Marshall)

177. Give us Direction; the best of goodwill; Put us in touch with fair winds. Sing to us softly, hum the evening's song-- Tell us what the blacksmith has done for you. --from Weathercock

178. Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.--Oliver J. Hart

179. Give us the luxuries of life and we will dispense with the necessities. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

180. Give us the tools, and we will do the job. - Winston Churchill, British PM

181. Give us, O give us the man why sings at his work! Be his occupa-tion what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pur-suit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time-he will do it better-he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible of fatigue whilst he marches to music. The very stars are said to make harmony as they revolve in their spheres. Wondrous is the strength of cheer-fulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance. Efforts to be permanently useful, must be uniformly joyous-a spirit ad sun-shine-graceful from very gladness-beautiful because bright. ---(CARLYLE).

182. Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.

183. Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier.

184. Given a fifty-fifty chance, you will be wrong 90% of the time.

185. Given counsel is all the same hard to take.

186. Given the choice of a man with brains, money, or appearance, she would unquestionably pick appearance-and the sooner the better.

187. Given the choice of Go calamities, he chooses both.

188. Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. --H. L. Mencken

189. Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken

190. Giving is true having.

191. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

192. Giving much to the poor cloth increase a man's store.

193. Glasses and lasses are brittle ware.

194. Glib's Fourth Law of Unreliability: Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cost of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.

195. Glory built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt. -- William Cowper

196. Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.

197. Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

198. Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.

199. Glory is the shadow of virtue. -- Latin Proverb

200. Glory paid to our ashes comes too late. -- Martial


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