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~~ I am not the author of the following written material, and I lay no claim to be the author. ~~
502. Good weight and measure is heaven's treasure.
503. Good will should be taken for part payment.
504. Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one. --Lord Jeffrey
505. Good wine needs no bush. (The old sign of a tavern was a bunch of ivy.) r6th cent.
506. Good WORDS cool more than cold water.
507. Good words cost nought.
508. Good words without deeds Are rushes and reeds.
509. Good workmen are seldom rich.
510. Good writing is like a windowpane. -- George Orwell
511. Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.
512. Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.--George Saunders - last words
513. Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again.--Elizabeth Bowen, The House in Paris
514. Good-nature and good sense are usually companions.
515. goodness and love are as real as their terrible opposites, and in truth, far more real.. but love is the final reality: and anyone who does not understand this be he writer or sage, is a man flawed in wisdom
516. Goodness brings goodness, but for a man who is really kind, for him badness also brings goodness too.
517. Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.
518. Goodness is beauty in its best estate.
519. Goodness is love in action. It is noble to be good.
520. Goodness is the greatest virtue. Every good deed is a grain of seed for immortality or eternal life.
521. Goodness is the only investment that never fails. (Thoreau)
522. Goodness is the race which God hath set him to run, and happiness the goal; which none can arrive at till he hath finished his course, and received his crown in the mansions of eternity.
523. Goodness shouts. Evil whispers. Balinese Proverb
524. Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts. Tibetan proverb
525. Goods are theirs who enjoy them.
526. Gordian Maxim: If a string has one end, it has another.
527. Gordon's First Law: If a research project is not worth doing at all, it is not worth doing well.
528. Gordon's Object Lifespan Theorem: No matter the amount of care given the purchased object, it will fuse/explode/disassemble within three days of warranty expiration.
529. Gordon's Warranty Law: All warranty clauses expires upon bill payment.
530. Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility. -- Josiah Gilbert Holland
531. Gossip is telling what others do that you'd like to be doing yourself.
532. Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. -- Walter Winchell
533. Gossip needs no carriage. Russian Proverb
534. Gossip: Something that runs down more people than cars.
535. Gossiping and lying go together.
536. Goto, n.: A programming tool that exists to allow structured programmers to complain about unstructured programmers.
537. Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.
538. Governing a large organization requires timely activity and discreet inactivity on the part of the chief executive. One must be particularly sensitive to promising circumstances, talented men, and the right objectives.
539. Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.
540. Government expands to absorb revenue and then some.
541. Government is a kind of legalized pillage. -- Elbert Hubbard
542. Government is not reason, it is not eloquence -- it is force. -- George Washington
543. Government never furthered any enterprise but the alacrity with which it got out of the way.
544. Government shouldn't be a first resource - they should be a last resort.
545. Government spending is not compassion. Government spending of the taxpayers' money has nothing to do with compassion. Showing compassion by giving away somebody else's money? You're kidding!
546. Government that "substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." --George Bernard Shaw
547. Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
548. Governments don't want people to succeed. If everybody succeeds, theres no need for them to interfere with our lives.
549. Governments give to encourage us to believe we need them.
550. Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed. -- Bernhard Berenson
551. Government's Law: There is an exception to all laws.
552. Governments still pin their faith to some new economic nostrum which is produced periodically by some bright young man. Only time proves that his alleged magic touch is illusory.
553. Grab 'em when they aren't looking. That's the way to handle a nasty drunk.
554. Grab the 4th point of the bamboo joint. -- Bill Taylor
555. Grab the border point between two moyos.
556. Grab the shape points as kikashi.
557. Grabel's Law: 2 is not equal to 3, not even for large values of 2.
558. Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
559. Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
560. Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect. -- Charles A. Stoddard
561. Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
562. Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
563. Grace is the divine ability to cope with every circumstance.
564. Grace is to the body, what good sense is to the mind. -- François de La Rochefoucauld
565. Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. -- William Hazlitt
566. Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant. - -Thomas Bailey Aldrich
567. Graduate life -- it's not just a job, it's an indenture.
568. Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.
569. Grandparents: the people who think your children are wonderful even though they're sure you're not raising them right.
570. Grasp all, lose all.
571. Grass is nature's way of saying high.
572. Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.
573. Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect. -- Jean Jacques Rousseau
574. Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld
575. Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. -- Cicero
576. Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep. -- Felix Frankfurter
577. Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it. -- Lord Halifax
578. Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. -- Henry Ward Beecher
579. Gratitude is the heart's memory. -- French Proverb
580. Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
581. Graves are filled with those who eat big suppers.
582. Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love. --Albert Einstein
583. Gravity brings you down.
584. Gravity is a trick of the body devised to conceal deficiencies of the mind. -- François de La Rochefoucauld
585. Gravity is only the bark of wisdom; but it preserves it. -- Confucius
586. Gravity was invented by Isaac Walton.
587. Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom. --Greek Proverb
588. Gray hairs are death's blossoms. --English Proverb
589. Great ability without discretion comes almost invariably to a tragic end.
590. Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
591. Great affection is often The cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise From too great a familiarity.
592. Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. --George Jean Nathan
593. Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
594. Great barkers are no biters.
595. Great beer bellies are made, not born.
596. Great BIRTH is a very poor dish at table.
597. Great boast and little roast.
598. Great BOAST and small roast makes unsavoury mouths.
599. Great boast, small roast.
600. Great bodies move slowly.