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~~ I am not the author of the following written material, and I lay no claim to be the author. ~~
402. Golf is a good walk spoiled.--Mark Twain
403. Golfer: All he has to do is hit a little, unmoving white ball (set against a nicely contrasting green background) into a whole about 15 feet away. The surface he is putting on is a carefully manicured lawn. If he fails, he loses money but gets another chance next year. Gymnast: She has to do is do a backflip on a 4 inch wide, 4 foot high wooden beam in front of 2 billion plus people watching on TV, knowing if she fails, she will lose her lifetime dream of winning an Olympic Gold Medal, invalidated her loss of youth and lack of social life.
404. Golfer: If someone moves or speaks during a shot, he throws a fit.
405. Golfer: Is in no danger of his life if he misses the putt. Gymnast: Could easily become handicapped or die from a wide variety of spills on any one of the apparatus.
406. Golfer: Older than 30, usually Gymnast: Younger than 15, usually
407. Golfer: Potentially could make $200,000 Gymnast: Might win a gold medal
408. Golfer: Practices on nice fairways and carefully manicured greens for many hours a day. Gymnast: Practices in gyms when she can, where she can. Probably is juggling school and the lack of a social life, too.
409. Gone insane from the pain that they surely know
410. Good actions crown themselves with lasting days, ---Who well deserves, ---needs not another's praise. ---(WHH).
411. Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds. -- Miguel de Cervantes
412. Good actions ennoble us; we are the sons of our own deeds.
413. Good advice is beyond price.
414. Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
415. Good ale is meat, drink and cloth.
416. Good ale will make a cat speak.
417. Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris. -- Thomas Gold Appleton
418. Good and evil, we know, in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably.
419. Good and quickly seldom meet.
420. Good as drink is, it ends in thirst.
421. Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter wordsWriting prose . . . Anything goes.--Cole Porter (1893-1964)
422. Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
423. Good BROTH may be made in an old pot.
424. Good character is like a rubber ball - Thrown down hard - it bounces right back.
425. Good character is not formed in a week or a month.
426. Good clothes open all doors. --Thomas Fuller
427. Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
428. Good communicationation is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. Anne Morrow Lingbergh
429. Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
430. Good company on the road is the shortest cut.
431. Good day for overcoming obstacles. Try a steeplechase.
432. Good day to let down old friends who need help.
433. Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions. (Anonymous)
434. Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
435. Good fences make good neighbors. American Proverb
436. Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.
437. Good fortune and misfortune take effect through perseverance. The way of heaven and earth becomes visible through perseverance. The way of sun and moon become bright through perseverance. All movements under heaven become uniform through perseverance.
438. Good friends are so hard to come by: may we all value them when we find them.
439. Good girl goes to heaven - bad girl goes anywhere!
440. Good government is no substitute for self-government. -- Mahatma Gandhi
441. Good guys always shoot better than bad guys.
442. Good guys always win and get the girl.
443. Good guys are always good looking.
444. Good guys are always outnumbered.
445. Good guys are the only ones with a sense of humor.
446. Good guys don't take drugs.
447. Good guys will only get shot in the arm or leg.
448. Good habits result from resisting temptation. --Ancient Proverb
449. Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted --Ralph W. Sockman
450. Good harvests make men prodigal, bad ones provident.
451. Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society. --William Makepeace Thackeray
452. Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness the poison.
453. Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice. --David Seabury
454. Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.
455. Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
456. Good in the mouth and bad in the maw.
457. Good is good, but better carries it.
458. Good judgement comes from experience...experience comes from poor judgement
459. Good judgment comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgment.
460. Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
461. Good leaders are like baseball umpires; they go practically unnoticed when doing their jobs right.
462. Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.
463. Good luck is a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success. -- Anonymous
464. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
465. Good masters make good servants.
466. Good men (or people) are scarce.
467. Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. Spanish Proverb
468. Good millet is known at the harvest.
469. Good moves and bad moves are bedfellows.
470. Good name is better than a good face.
471. Good name, in man, and woman, ---Is the immediate jewel of their souls. ---Who steals my purse, steals trash; ---'tis something, nothing; ---'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands: ---But he, that filches from me my good name, ---Robs me of that, which not enriches him, ---And makes me poor indeed. ---(SHAKESPEARE).
472. Good news is just life's way of keeping you off balance.
473. Good news travels fast
474. Good news. Ten weeks from Friday will be a pretty good day.
475. Good night to spend with family, but avoid arguments with your mate's new lover.
476. Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.--Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221
477. Good or bad company is the greatest blessing or greatest plague of life. ---(L'ESTRANGE).
478. Good or bad, it's the same to me.
479. Good order is the foundation of all good things.
480. Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. - William Saroyan
481. Good questions outrank easy answers.
482. Good reckoning forms decent friendships.
483. Good reputation is like a crystal ball - Thrown for gain - shattered and cracked.
484. Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. --Oscar Wilde
485. Good riding at two anchors, men have told, For if one break the other may hold.
486. Good swimmers at length are drowned.
487. Good take-heed cloth surely speed.
488. Good taste come more from the judgment than from the mind.
489. Good taste consists first upon fitness.
490. Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
491. Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life. --Oscar Wilde
492. Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.
493. Good teaching is /th preparation and /ths theatre.
494. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theatre. Gail Godwin
495. Good temper is an estate for life. --William Hazlitt
496. Good things cease to be good in our wrong enjoyment of them. What nature meant pure sweets, are then sources of bitterness to us; from such delights arise pain, from such joys, sorrows.
497. Good thoughts are blessed guests, and should be heartily welcomed, well fed, and much sought after. Like rose leaves, they give out a sweet smell if laid up in the jar of memory. ---(CHARLES H. SPURGEON).
498. Good to BEGIN well, better to end well.
499. Good to fetch a sick man sorrow and a dead man woe. (Said to those who loiter on errands.)
500. Good to forgive; Best to forget! Living, we fret; Dying, we live. --R. Browning